Tennis

[Flutterby]

Anybody here play tennis? Its something I do in the summer about 4 days a week--weather permitting in Ohio. In the cooler months I live in Texas, but only for the last two years. I haven't played too much tennis in Texas yet.

[CBC guy]

I'm playing tommorow! However I suck at tennis.

I can't get my serve over the damn net.

[snailpoo]

Anybody here play tennis? Its something I do in the summer about 4 days a week--weather permitting in Ohio. In the cooler months I live in Texas, but only for the last two years. I haven't played too much tennis in Texas yet.

I used to play. Now I suck.

[inthesky]

i would play with you if we were in the same area. i'm deciding to play tennis all summer.

[Flutterby]

i would play with you if we were in the same area. i'm deciding to play tennis all summer.
I see you left your area off. Where are you located?

[Adaon]

I need to learn how to play.

I just swing like I do in Wii Tennis/Mario Tennis (as frantically as possible)

[CBC guy]

I played this morning. Gosh I am freaking rusty from not playing all year.

[inthesky]

I'm in Alberta, Canada. looks too far to hit together. However, yesterday i did find a good resource for finding players in my area - Facebook, tennis groups in your area. I found 2 groups for my city, and tennis ain't very popular here at all

[ColinB]

i play every weekend and i'm pretty good. i play golf too and there is a real conflict making time for both. there is peer pressure with the golf as i have corporate membership and have to 'be seen' but mostly it is fun

Anybody here play tennis? Its something I do in the summer about 4 days a week--weather permitting in Ohio. In the cooler months I live in Texas, but only for the last two years. I haven't played too much tennis in Texas yet.

[CBC guy]

Hey I play both tennis and golf for recreation. As I'm not rich I only play pitch-and-putt with my friends here in Vancouver. Golf is fun but damn it is hard as hell ROFL.

Tennis is also fun, its more fast-paced that's for sure. I just can't serve the damn thing. Either I hit it really hard and it: a) hits the net b) goes into space.

OR, I hit it in the service area but its really soft and my opponent can handle it too easily.

Oh well. (shrugs)

[hapy]

I used to play tennis at school. But when I quit school, I have quitted tennis also.

[Faithless]

My participation in tennis is my gift to the opponent.

I let them run me around for my exercise and to humor them.

Took me a while to figure out what add-in meant.

[inthesky]

ad-in? i think u're better than many players out there in terms of that knowledge

and ur play style is called a counterpuncher, michael chang could do it too

anybody watching the French Open by the way?

[CBC guy]

Believe it or not I played tennis again last Friday! I am slowly getting my strokes back, but my serve still sucks ass balls. Just need to practice my serve more but you know I have other things to do.

[proazn]

so many asians play tennis, yet, how many asians are currently highly ranked?
maybe asians don't take tennis seriously enough, or just lack the athletism.

[noname]

so many asians play tennis, yet, how many asians are currently highly ranked?
maybe asians don't take tennis seriously enough, or just lack the athletism.

Available on
http://www.atptennis.com/3/en/rankings/
http://www.sonyericssonwtatour.com/2/rankings/singles_numeric.asp

The highest-ranked man is Hyung-Taik Lee of Korea, at #47
On the women's side, there are actually a handful in the Top 50 (mostly from China), led by Li Na at #18
They've done better in doubles, with wins at the Olympics and Wimbledon (among others). Yan Zi and Zhang Jie are ranked #5 in the world in doubles.

The success (or lack thereof) probably has much to do with access to the best coaches and practice partners, and ability to travel to enough tournaments to get ranking points and experience.

[proazn]

dang, Thailand's Paradorn Srichaphan has dropped really far. He's now ranked 77th. I guess thats what happens to you when you marry a Miss Universe.

also, Kevin Kim has dropped out of the top 100.
http://www.atptennis.com/3/en/players/playerprofiles/?playernumber=K358

[Feger]

One reason is because out here near Asia, Badminton and table tennis are big.

Did you also know that the scoring methods of table tennis has also been incorporated into rallypoint volleyball.

[Faithless]

Is the scoring in Tennis anything like Fegerball?

[Feger]

Is the scoring in Tennis anything like Fegerball?

I'm not sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if the FIVB didn't start using a bounce serve to augment their rallypoint scoring system.

And, by the way, Fegerball started in Japan. So, since it was copyrighted and patented from out of Asia, it would seem it might be the only Asian sport posted here. I may be wrong on that though. I haven't read all the different topics on these forums.

Is there a topic on Asian sports we can look at, other than Fegerball, There is a sport like volleyball that I believe originated out of Thailand where players only use their feet to serve and volley over a net.

[Edwin]

Paradorn Srichaphan has wrist problems so he had to pull out of French and Wimbledon this year. Paradorn almost beat Federer last year in 3 sets pushing Roger to the limit. It's too bad he is so inconsistent cause he has the game to be in the top 10.

[inthesky]

yes, the gap as regards to athleticism is dropping as these countries are starting to build up the facilities, coaching talent, and fitness levels, and funding to compete on the international stage.

Paradorn, who ain't exactly michael chang-sized, isn't really a player who is being held back because of poor physical attributes - he has great fundamental strokes and athleticism - it's more just a mental issue. Expect to see more players as the interest, funding, and coaching talent available in these countries grows. and tennis, like most sports, is a sport which requires a ton of $$ to get to the pro level.

[Edwin]

Yeah Paradorn is 6'1 and all muscle, probably one of the top physical specimens in tennis. But he doesn't have the will and tennis smarts of Chang.

I think since tennis is now a Olympic sport, there will be more and more players being developed in China coming up in the next few years. The women are already here and the men will follow.