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Tennis is a sport that can be played with 2 or 4 people. It involves using a tennis court, racquet and tennis balls. The main point of the game is to hit the ball in a way so the opposition can not get it back. Tennis courts can come in diffent materials such as clay, grass and hardcourts. Some rules haved changed compared to the olden days such as when the server wants to serve they were not allowed to jump but now it is normal to jump when you serve. Tennis racquets were first made out of wood but as time went by it turned into graphite and the head size became bigger. Some of the best players of all time are Roger Federer, Pete Samprass and more.

Tennis is enjoyed by millions of recreational players and is also a hugely popular worldwide spectator sport, especially the four Grand Slam tournaments the Australian Open played on hard courts, the French Open played on red clay courts, Wimebledon played on grass courts, and the US Open played also on hard courts.

Roger Federer has won 17 grand slams and is at the moment playing for his country in the olympics. He was born in swiss and at the age of fourteen he went to the school of tennis. He is at the moment the best player on planet and he is 30 years old, he has two twin daughters and is married to a proffesional tennis player "Mirka". He has brocken a lot of tennis records and some people say that no one will be able to be as good as him.

In 2011, in a South African poll, he was voted the second most trusted and respected person in the world, next to Nelson Mandela. He was named the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year for a record four consecutive years (2005–2008). Federer is at times referred to as the Federer Express.

The components of a tennis racket include a handle, known as the grip, connected to a neck which joins a frame that holds a combination of tightly pulled strings. For the first 100 years of the modern game, rackets were of wood and of standard size, and strings were of animal gut. Laminated wood construction had more strength in rackets used through most of the 20th century until first metal and then composites of carbon graphite, ceramics, and lighter metals such as titanium were introduced.