Stereotypes Of Tennis Essay

All my life I’ve played tennis. I played tennis in kindergarten, middle school, high school, and still playing it now. However, to some people, tennis isn’t the most appealing sport; they view tennis as boring, easy, two players hitting a ball around a court, and grunting very loudly. I don’t see these stereotypical characteristics as negative but perceive them differently and as a challenge.

Gribben 2 Tennis, to me, is a sport that requires quick thinking, predicting the tennis ball’s placement, and a lot of focus. I first realized this when I started playing tennis. I started playing when I was 5-years-old and I have my older sister to thank for that. When I first picked up a tennis racquet and started playing, I realized how difficult the sport actually was. You wouldn’t just hit a tennis ball and expect it not to go out. What you had to do was to “split-step,” turn your body to the left or right, swing your racquet to either side, and make windshield wiper-like-motion into the ball all in order. These complicated but now simple steps are what got me interested in tennis and I wanted to learn more about it.
Grunting, while hitting a ball, sounds annoying to many people, and I sometimes view it as annoying. However, grunting in tennis is showing that you’re working hard and pushing yourself. Not everyone wants to grunt on purpose, it is sometimes obnoxious to the players too, but they’re trying hardest. Even when I play, I grunt sometimes. When I’m exhausted and hit the ball fast, but with control, I’ll grunt. It’s exciting to hit the ball fast and grunt at the same time, and doing a series of steps to hit the ball; it’s what drives me to play