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Article: USA Team Tennis makes a racket; taking the team approach in tennis brings kids back to the courts.
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- Parks & Recreation
- Article date:
- July 1, 2004
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It's time to talk tennis--did you ever wonder where the majority of children first learned to play the game? If you were like me, the answer would be a park court somewhere in your neighborhood. And chances are, you learned the few rules from a friend or adult, and then were told to "play the game." In baseball, you didn't spend time learning the technique of throwing, catching or kicking a ball ... you just hit the field and worried about the skills later. You probably struck out many times at home plate before you were able to come in contact with the ball. The more you played the game, the more you learned the strategy, and the more successful you became.
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