| If there is one sport that is well participated by both | | | | 1900 to 1924 when female athletes' participation in |
| men and women, most people will have tennis on top | | | | tennis was seen. Tennis was withdrawn from the |
| of the list. While tennis is considered as one of the | | | | Olympics program for sixty years due to |
| most popular sports today, it is not an effortless sport | | | | controversies of amateur and professional athletes' |
| to get into. It takes skill, training and hours of grueling | | | | involvement. The sport only emerged in 1988 Seoul |
| practice to be able to play this sport with dexterity. | | | | Olympics as entirely open contest. |
| Whether you want to play tennis leisurely or | | | | In over a century of tennis, it would be imaginable to |
| professionally, it is advisable to equip yourself with the | | | | see how tennis apparels evolved and the primitiveness |
| right gears to fully enjoy the game. It is good to know | | | | all the tennis supplies. Not only the fabrics and style |
| that the market has great brands and wide array of | | | | have drastically changed especially on women's tennis |
| tennis supplies today than it used to be when the | | | | fashions but it is conspicuously seen that the apparels |
| concept of the sport began. | | | | shrank from ground length to the shortest and minimal |
| First of all, there are many origins of ball game tennis | | | | covering. The tennis equipments such as rackets are |
| as it is known today. It was apparently an off shoot of | | | | lighter and more durable and have. Tennis rackets are |
| a creepy story by a Parisian monk in the twelve | | | | now technologically designed to provide power and |
| centuries. The soul of being tossed back and forth by | | | | better maneuverability. |
| clawed devils would be most likely construed as mere | | | | Today, tennis is played in more than hundreds of |
| fantastical and sinister story. However, the French | | | | countries worldwide. It is categorized as the most |
| monk was said to be real and the story eventually | | | | popularly participated sports played on different |
| evolved with actual game being played using the palm | | | | surfaces allowing amateurs and professionals several |
| of the hand. The Romans, Arabs and medieval English | | | | degrees of challenges. It is also played either as a |
| people also have their version of the origin of tennis | | | | leisure activity amongst friends and families as well as |
| but the modern era point its two separate beginnings in | | | | amateur tournaments. Many people are more involve |
| United Kingdom between 1859 and 1865. | | | | into tennis as their favorite sports not only because it is |
| Nonetheless, it was in 1896 when it was introduced in | | | | easy and affordable to acquire tennis supplies and |
| the Athens Olympics as one of the nine sports | | | | equipment, it is also a well known sport benefitting |
| competitions exclusively played by men. Although | | | | health and social well-being and lifestyle. |
| women played in Wimbledon in 1884, it was only in | | | | |