Tennis

Tennis El golf es un deporte de precisión cuyo objetivo es introducir una bola en los hoyos que están distribuidos en el campo con el menor número de golpes, utilizando para cada tipo de golpe uno de entre un conjunto de palos ligeramente diferentes entre sí, ya que la cabeza del palo tiene grados distintos al igual que las varillas tienen longitudes distintas. A menor número de grados, mayor longitud de la varilla y por lo tanto más distancia. Como máximo se pueden llevar 14 palos. Al que practica el golf se le denomina golfista.

En 1744 se fundó la primera asociación de jugadores en Escocia, y en 1745, también en el Reino Unido, se creó la primera reglamentación del golf. Las primeras asociaciones de golf fueron la Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers (1744) y The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews (1754).

Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society and at all ages. The sport can be played by anyone who can hold a racket, including wheelchair users. The modern game of tennis originated in Birmingham,England, in the late 19th century as "lawn tennis".It had close connections both to various field ("lawn") games such as croquet and bowls as well as to the older racket sport of real tennis. During most of the 19th-century in fact, the term "tennis" referred to real tennis, not lawn tennis: for example, in Disraeli's novel Sybil(1845), Lord Eugene De Vere announces that he will "go down to Hampton Court and play tennis.

The rules of tennis have changed little since the 1890s. Two exceptions are that from 1908 to 1961 the server had to keep one foot on the ground at all times, and the adoption of the tiebreak in the 1970s. A recent addition to professional tennis has been the adoption of electronic review technology coupled with a point challenge system, which allows a player to contest the line call of a point.

Tennis is played by millions of recreational players and is also a popular worldwide spectator sport. The fourGrand Slam tournaments (also referred to as the "Majors") are especially popular: the Australian Open played onhard courts, the French Open played on red clay courts, Wimbledon played on grass courts, and the US Openplayed also on hard courts.