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Tennis is a sport usually played between two people or two teams of two people on each team. There is a net directly in the middle of a lined court in which each player hits a felt covered tennis ball over the net with a strung tennis racket.

The game is moderately easy to learn how to play, only following some very simple rules. But, playing tennis may get progressively harder if you are playing against advanced players.

The game starts out with a serve from one player on one side of the court. The serving player must successfully serve the ball over the net into the opposite side of the court. Then, the receiving player is allowed to let the ball hit the ground one time before returning the ball back to the serving opponent. Points are scored for the unsuccessful and legal return to the other side of the court.

There are many different techniques that players use in their serves to gain the advantage over their opponents, such as aces. But they are not necessary to gain points in the game of tennis.

Tennis elbow or what you may call the lateral epicondylitis is a common injury that tennis players frequently experience. The name tennis elbow is as obvious as to what it refers to. But surprisingly, it also occurs to quite a huge number of people who do not play tennis at all.

Tennis elbow usually occurs at the tendon of the extensor carpi radialis brevis muscle, 2cm below the outer edge of the elbow joint. Usually the signs and the symptoms would show immediately. One would experience pain about 1-2cm down from the bony area at the outside of the elbow. If one also has difficulty in performing simple tasks such as shaking hands with someone or opening the door and feels pain, one should go to his or her physician immediately. Pain is also felt outside of the elbow when one tries to straighten the fingers against resistance.

As tennis continues to grow its fans and players will always be arguing on what determines a good player and which skills are the most important to have.

So it’s all just conjecture really, but it’s still worth having a debate over just for the fun of it and there are many aspects of the sport to choose from.

Some very important aspects are listed. Are there any that you would find most important?

What about volleying? A game that it going too smoothly can become a disadvantage for opponents as point may easily be lost. Just take a look back at players of the past such as John McEnroe.

What about baseline play, is that important? Many experts would say that it is the more modern approach as opposed to playing at the net. Take Rafael Nadal for example, he spends a lot of time hanging at the back of the court rather that up at the net. And other players such as Andy Roddick have changed tactics in favour of the baseline play.

Any player with a powerful serve can easily take control of the court if their opponent is unable to break them and this will give them an overall advantage. Take Roddick as a good example of a big serve.