Tennis is:
- individual
- played in opposition
- on different terrains, outdoors or indoors
- without direct contact with the opponent
- of long duration and variable time in every match
- in a game are played on average 120 points
- wins the player who commit less mistakes than the other
- player make many mistakes
- every point played is long on average 20 seconds
- between each point there is a break of 20 seconds
- requiring fast lateral and forward movements
- where every player wants to impose his/her tactical thinking
- the player has to quickly understand the opponent’s play, his/her strengths and weaknesses
- attention goes from one stage of mind relaxation and assessment of the point played, to decide how to play the next point, to focus on serve/answer and play
- the player plays 50 and more matches every year
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