Fun Truths/Falsehoods about Tennis?
Just to spice things up a little from our usual bulletin, we would like to play a bit of a True or False questionnaire. Please keep the answers to yourselves and the answers will be revealed in the next bulletin!
- The longest competitive tennis match took more than 11 hours to finish!
- The shortest competitive tennis match took less than 20 minutes!
- The French Open (Roland Garros) was the first “Grand Slam” to go open!
- The fastest serve on the ATP was by an Australian and was faster than 250km/h!
- An actual hawk (not Hawkeye) is used at Wimbledon to keep the pigeons away!
- Tennis balls were originally white, and only switched to being yellow at Wimbledon!
- Professional tennis can be played on grass, carpet and even wood!
- The loudest grunt in a tennis match came from Maria Sharapova at Wimbledon!
- Grass courts are the fastest surface to play tennis on!
- If you swing during the serve and miss the ball, it is considered a fault!
So, which of these are true and which are false? Keep your eyes peeled for the answers in the next Slamin Bulletin!