I don’t play tennis as I would like to. In fact, I don’t play much at all. I think that it is a great sport. It is great exercise, t is a good way to develop hand and eye coordination, and it is a great way to spend the day outside. However, there are two inhibitors to playing tennis, at least for me.
First, playing tennis typically requires two people. It is a social sport. There are options, however, you can play against a back board—and I have spent hours at a backboard, or you can join a sometimes expensive tennis club. Thinking of the backboard issue leads to the second inhibitor to playing tennis and that is the courts.
The second major inhibitor to playing tennis are the available tennis courts. In the past, I have travelled to the local high school to play or occasionally the city park, but I find that many of the tennis court across the country are falling or have fallen into states of disrepair. The surfaces have growing cracks and the backboards are warped, if they exist at all. These courts do need to be maintained, but much less than golf courses. Occasionally, they need to be resurfaced, but as our country has slowly drifted away from playing sport in favor of watching them, we have let this resource fall apart. This neglect only serves to further the problem and self-fulfill the prophecy that no-one plays tennis anymore.
So, maybe when I get back, I may play tennis once again. I certainly would like to, but I am continually hindered by the lack of quality tennis courts.
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