I'd love to learn how to play tennis! It looks like such a fun sport. Have you ever played?
Yes, I have!  It's exciting that it is an Olympic sport!
It is?! I never realized that! Do you usually play with four people or can two people play?
I usually play against one person, though sometimes a friend and I get together with two others and play doubles.
That sounds like fun! How do you score points in tennis?
If your opponents hits the ball to you and you don't return the ball, you don't get a point, but your opponent does. So you need to hit that ball back!
Okay, gotcha! What else should I know about tennis before I play?
gain a point, while the opposite player will.
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 today called real tennis. During most of the
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