the human body blueprint Terrific Tennis

Author: Jean Claude, T Isidor

Editors: Jasleen Matharu and He-Hanson Xuan

Artist: Jenny Luo

Everybody has heard of tennis, some know the rules and maybe have even played in the past, but do you know of the intricacies of a tennis match? This article will explore the minute, but significant, details of tennis, from training to the game itself. Read more to find out.

Every time the Wimbledon Games come around, I can’t help but take a moment and admire how amazing tennis players can be. The ability of these players to not only strike a tennis ball at the perfect moment, but have that same ball flying to their targeted location at 100 miles per hour feels like something out of a Harry Potter movie. In this article, I dig deep into the differences between tennis players and the average person and how they use their biomechanical abilities to achieve spectacular feats.

Laying out the Rulebook:

Before talking about how tennis players use their bodies to play, I want to spend a short moment talking about the rules of tennis. The game starts off with something called a serve. This is when a player chooses a side of the court (either left or right) and precedes to toss the ball up in the air and hit it with the racket using the other hand (Olympics) The ball must hit a specific area called the serving area for the serve to be considered Keep in mind that all the steps mentioned to produce a serve, must be done in one swift motion in order to start the game off strong. Now, there are 2 main ways you get a point in tennis, either you hit the ball and it bounces on the ground twice on your opponent's side of the net, or your opponent hits either the ball into the net or an area considered out of bounds This means that tennis players have to do a lot of running to stay on top