Top 10 Secret Joys Of Tennis

The seemingly insignificant little things that tennis players love.

1. New Balls Please..... Tssssssssssssssssstttt!

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Opening a new can of balls. Lift off the plastic lid, pull back the ring-pull and that satisfying hiss of felty, rubbery air that hits your face... breathe it in... oh yes.

2. Net Chord Winners

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Your ball has cracked into the net-chord and just bobbled over to win the point. You raise your hand to apologize but inside you're screaming... "Get In".

3. When you get a sexy doubles partner

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It's your service game. The pressure is on to hold. Yet before serving you get the chance to check out your sexy doubles partner's fine caboose rocking side to side.

4. Winning your service game to love

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It always puts a little skip or strut in your step... especially before a change of ends.

5. Aces

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That warm feeling when you power, poise and precision combine to leave your opponent either scrambling for a ball they can't reach or completely flat footed.

6. Classic Doubles Points

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Those amazing doubles points that seemingly go on forever where all four players are covering the whole court.

7. Junior Players

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Watching your (or any) children take up the game. The excitement of their first tentative tap-ups and mini-court drills. Then to have them only a few years later humiliating you in a crushing defeat.

8. Older players handing it to some whippersnappers

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Nothing like seeing an older lady or gentleman player using guile, craft and experience to outfox someone much younger, fitter and mobile than them.

9. Fair Play

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Nothing improves the game more than playing with a pleasant players who appreciate fair play.

10. Family Fun

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A family that plays together, stays together. Three or four generations of family members able to play the same game.

Tennis For Free

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Tennis For Free is a UK based charity providing free tennis coaching on public courts across the UK 50 weeks per year. Our sessions are designed for all ages and abilities to take up the wonderful sport. The charity also aims to promote the participation of tennis and make all public courts free to use. Getting more people hitting more balls.

Please visit Tennis for Free to see the great work we do, to search for local coaching in your area or to donate.

We also need the support of experienced players and coaches to volunteer to help support our sessions and set-up new sites. If you would be interested in helping out or setting up a new site, please contact the charity via the website for information.

Thank-you.