Explain how important the right tennis racket plays for a tennis player to succeed.

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Summary

In sport, the aim for every athlete is to win and to do the best in what ever the chosen sport and area is.  In order to do this, the athlete needs to have access to as much help that is needed to reach his/her goals.  This could mean have the best coaching, play on the best surface and make practise look as much like a real match as possible, and also to be able to use the best equipment that is available at the time to suit the athlete.  For a cricket batsman, it may be a cricket bat, for a footballer it may be football boots, and for a tennis player it could well be a tennis racket.  These things could make a major difference in the playability of the athlete, as much as being number one and champion.  The chosen topic in this report is tennis.

This report will go into depth in and explain how important a role does the right tennis racket plays for a tennis player to succeed.  Furthermore, it will show all the ways in which the tennis racket is likely to fail and all methods that are undertaken in order to prevent these failures from occurring.

Introduction

Tennis is one of the most popular and most loved sports which is watch and played all around the world.  Athletes from all parts of the globe come together in tournaments and compete for the ultimate number one position and only one goal, to win.  Competition for this sport is at the highest level where factors such as health, fitness, ability, commitment are all required to participate with the best.  There is such a fine line to distinguish the best out of the top 10 players, which is why they all require the best facilities and equipment in order for them to compete.  The tennis racket for a tennis player is very much like a weapon for a soldier in that it is vital that the tennis player and the soldier both must be able to trust their equipment all the time.  Failure of the equipment may result in death for a soldier and a loss for a tennis player.  Each tennis player has his own strengths and weaknesses and in proportion, all players require different types of racket to suit their attributes.  It is very important that the tennis racket does not fail during an important match as it may possibly disrupt the players’ concentration and the athlete does not help the player.  This report will explain the different types of failures that occur in the tennis racket and the causes of these failures.  Also solutions will be given in order of prevention of these failures.

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Aims

  • To extend the readers knowledge in the area of possible failures of tennis rackets

  • To provide the reader with a background in the concepts of the importance of maintaining a tennis racket

  • To introduce methods and ways in which the athlete is able to prevent likely failures of happening in future

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