I want to learn how to play tennis?

Question

okay i want to play tennis for my highschool next year, i took lessons in seventh grade and i'll be a sophmore next year and i wasn't so bad. tennis isn't a big sport at my school so theri is a huge chance of me making it, i was wondering if there was anything else i needed to know other than a back hand, front hand, and serve? Also i don't understand the scoring! please help!!

Answer 1

Im happy you like to play ! Here are some tips you should remember when playing tennis.

1. Watch the ball closely and contact it in the center of the racquet. Many " Advanced players" say " oh thats easy I do that all the time".But they dont. They lose a lot of power and make mistkes because they aren't doing this.

2. Concentrate. All the time when you are playing tennis.

3. Contact the ball powerfully in front of your body. Brush up slightly to apply " Topspin" to the ball thus adding control.

4. Move your feet. Dont be lazy with them. Move them into the position you feel best to play the shot with.

You need to learn to volley also. A volley is a shot where you take the ball out of the air. Take a short backswing and punch through your volleys.

Scoring: learn it from a player or coach. Im a slow typer.

Hope this helps! Im in 7th grade and Ive been playing for 7 years. I love to play! If you become pretty good with practice you can play some tennis tournaments and maybe you can get a college scholarship even!

P.S. You can take lessons from a coach if you want to. And its spelled " forehand" not " fronthand"! (; Good luck !

Answer 2

Hey i played tennis for the first time this year for my school and im a senior. i knew not a thing about it either. You DO need to know the scoring and when it's out and faults. I'm sure your tennis coach will teach you these things though. But the Score always starts out at "Love". Love means 0. So if you're serving, you announce your score and your oppinent's score. "Love, Love, first serve. You hit it over into thier little box and you two play until someone hits it out or misses. If your ball doesn't go over the first time you serve. You get a "Second serve." The points go up like this: Love,15,30,40. if you both have the same score. it will be Ex."15 all". If you and your oppent both have 40, then it's deuce. So the server will have to serve and say AD In and then they will have to serve an AD OUT. It can go either way at this point. if they win The AD IN and you will the AD OUT, you go back to duece and keep playing like this until someone wins BOTH the Ad In and the AD OUT. I hope i helped a bit because i really tried, lol. but this may also help you. Good Luck!

http://tennis.about.com/cs/beginners/a/beginnerscore.htm

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girl, have the same hairstyle? lol

Answer 3

No one gave u the right advice here.
I play tennis & coach too. 1st: U must love the sport that u want to learn about, if not, u will never be good at it. 2nd: U must seek someone who knows it to teach u the right way from the start because that will be ur way of playing. 3rd: U must be serios in learning it, give ur time, dedication, love & all of ur attention.
Tennis is not an easy or a simple sport. It is a sport that needs ur body & mind together. U must think to play & play to think.
Good luck

Answer 4

I know there's something like "love" or something like that. You should ask someone on the tennis team.

Or you could watch tennis.

Answer 5

ok soo just make sure you stay in shapoe because tennis is really demanding sport to play!!! so you gotta be hardcore not jokes.. have fun but no jokes!!!!
Good luck J.R

Answer 6

try to play practice matches, get lessons at your local tennis club.