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Sport:  Tennis

Top 5 players

• Novak Djokovic
• Andy Murray
• Roger Federer
• Stan Wawrinka
• Rafael Nadal

Favorite player: Gilles Simon

Summary of Simon

                                       Year to date W/L                         Career W/L

• Overall                           3-2                                      375 - 258    

• Grand Slams                 3-1                                         68 - 39      

The major tournaments that Simon competed in were the Grand slam tournaments. These include: The US Open, the Australian Open, Wimbledon, and Roland Garros. The person who won this years Australian Open tournament was Novak Djokovic.

3 important rules of Tennis

• When you are serving, the ball has to land in the service box diagonal to your position.
• When you are serving, make sure that your foot does not cross over the white line, or else that is a fault.
• When playing a singles match, make sure that you keep in mind the fact that you are not playing with the doubles alley, (which is the extra part of the court that is past the singles sideline.

3 examples of jargon for this sport

• Winner - When the ball is served and a point is made without the other person even touching the ball.
• 'No man's land' - The area located directly in the middle of the court, below the service line, but above the base line.
• Love - This is derived from the french word, l'oeuf or egg. It represents the number zero, considering the shape of an egg resembles that of the round number. All games begin with a score of "Love all"

Tennis cliche

"It's her game to win, and her game to lose" - meaning that it's all up to her/him to either come out a winner, or come out a loser.

A player that is considered a legend in Tennis

Martina Navratilova is the person that is considered a legend for the Wimbledon tournament. Holding the most singles, doubles and mixed doubles titles of any person, she is obviously a legend. She was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. She was introduced to tennis at age 4 and began to regularly play tennis at age 7. Martina Navratilova went to grade school for 9 years and high school for 3 1/2 years. She never went to college, considering that tennis players do not need a degree of some sort. She is most renowned for playing on the red clay surface and the grass surface. She is the only person of either gender to hold the top position for well over 200 weeks.