{"id":707,"date":"2016-03-04T12:04:18","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T17:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/?p=707"},"modified":"2016-03-23T12:09:46","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T16:09:46","slug":"the-history-of-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/journalism\/2016\/03\/04\/the-history-of-tennis\/","title":{"rendered":"The History of Tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Serves up, over net, and in. Tennis has been a worldwide sport since 1851. There are many things that changed in the sport of tennis. Some things that have changed are the rackets, tennis balls, and even the courts. The tournaments are getting more tense because the players are better.<\/p>\n

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There have been many memorable moments in tennis . One memorable moment in early tennis was when Spencer Gore won the first ever Wimbledon Tournament. The Wimbledon Tournament is still going on today and many players have won it. The player who won the most is Roger Federer who won 17. Rafael Nadal is close second with 14 wins.<\/p>\n

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There has been a really memorable moment called the battle of the sexes. The battle of the sexes was when a women proved that men are not always better than women. She did that by beating a man in a tennis match. The woman\u2019s name was Billie Jean King and The man she beat was named Bobby Riggs<\/p>\n

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Some people think that women can beat men and some think the opposite. Khalil Abbas, a tennis player himself stated, \u201c It it was possible for a women to beat a man in tennis back in the day but, now it would be very hard because \u00a0men have a lot more power than women\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Many things have changed in the sport of tennis. The things that changed are the courts, tennis balls, and mostly the racquets. The racquets used to be really small but now they have gotten bigger and the wires got stronger. The courts \u00a0got \u00a0bigger and cleaner. More and more people are starting to play the sport tennis. Even little kids are starting to play tennis.<\/p>\n

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One thing that will always be remembered in tennis history is the first female black tennis player. The first black female tennis player was named Althea Gibson. She was the first black tennis player to win a French Open, Wimbledon, and U.S Open. Because of Althea, there are many female black tennis players in tennis today. One of them is Serena Williams. She is the best female tennis player today. Serena\u2019s sister, Venus Williams is also playing professional tennis.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Hadi Hassan<\/p>\n

Unis Middle School Journalist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Serves up, over net, and in. Tennis has been a worldwide sport since 1851. There are many things that changed in the sport of tennis. Some things that have changed are the rackets, tennis balls, and even the courts. The tournaments are getting more tense because the players are better.   There have been many …<\/p>\n

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