10 Reasons Why Tennis Is The Most Intense Sport Ever

This list isn't that all encompassing I think... and a lot of its is my opinion.

10. Competitive – Tennis is played by a lot of people in the world and a lot of them are competitive. When you first start up, you get beat down a lot and that makes you feel bad :)

9. Tennis balls get hit pretty hard – This doesn’t happen a lot but tennis balls do get hit in the wrong place. When a 70-mph ball gets nailed into your groin, it hurts…

8. 90% mental, 10% physical – Tennis is for the mentally fast and the mentally stable. If you don’t stay cool while playing, you'll lose. If you don't think while you play, you'll lose. If you aren't mentally fast while playing, you'll lose.

7. Time is money, money is rare – Tennis will take up a lot of time. You can’t just play on the weekends to get good, got to play everyday (or pretty darn close). Then you realize the time is being sucked up like a black hole. Next thing you know, all your money also goes down the drain paying for all those strings and tennis balls…

6. Where’s your team? – There is no team, its only you and the opponent. Maybe you might play doubles but you still have to contribute 50% of all the effort. Lets see Michael Jordan or Ronaldinho do that.

5. Machine gun lunges – Practice at tennis are gruesome (at least where I go right now). A short warm-up run and then a choice of machine guns, lunges and buttkicks plus friends or both. On top of that, your expected to chase every ball down for the next one and a half hours.

4. 3 hours is a LONG time – Okay, so the typical match is not nearly 3 hours long but I had some that long. Compared to other sports, 3 hours is HUGE. The only other sport that I can think off where you keep on moving for this long of a time is marathon running.

3. Lets see how many strokes there are… – alright, there's the serve, forehand, backhand, volleys, overhead, drop shots and lobs. Oh, and then there’s the slice on either side, the hard topspin shot, the flat. On top of that, there’s a few volleys you have to get. All of them you have to master for a well rounded game.

2. Full body! – Unlike most sports, tennis requires a full body approach. Your footwork got to be topnotch or else you’ll never get to the ball. Your upper body got to be in shape or you’re never going to get pop on the ball. Also, you must have total control over your body, or else you lose.

1. "It’s a sprinting game doofus…" – sort of edited the quote, by a select few will know why I put this as the number one reason.

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