Tennis is a sport. Tennis is a game. Tennis requires one player to hit the ball over the net into a designated area, and his opponent to do the same. The last player to successfully accomplish this goal is deemed the winner.
All of these things are true, but when taught to children, tennis is much more than these things. You see, in a child, tennis creates—then reveals their personality, their character and determination to succeed.
In the formative years of childhood, many things are developing. These are critical times in the creation of physical and psychological characteristics that will either serve or hinder a child for the rest of their lives.
A recent study showed that if your child invested 10,000 hours in training by the time he was 18 years old, his chance of success on the pro tennis circuit would be 0.0002 percent. So when one looks at the cold, hard facts, it makes much more sense to realize that the real value in teaching tennis is to develop a person who will respect himself and others; to work hard at everything that he chooses to do and to focus on his goals. If professional tennis (against the odds) becomes an option, then all the better.
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