tennis

Summary

tennis is a type of sport^[1]. tennis ranks in the top 6% of type_of_sport entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,658 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• tennis's instance of is recorded as type of sport^[3].
• tennis's instance of is recorded as hobby^[4].
• tennis is a type of ball game^[5].
• tennis is a type of racket sport^[6].
• tennis is a type of Olympic sport^[7].
• tennis's Commons category is recorded as Tennis^[8].
• tennis's Unicode character is recorded as 🎾^[9].
• tennis's country of origin is recorded as England^[10].
• 1873 marks the founding of tennis^[11].
• tennis's authority is recorded as International Tennis Federation^[12].
• tennis's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Tennis^[13].
• tennis's Commons gallery is recorded as Tennis^[14].
• tennis's topic's main Wikimedia portal is recorded as Portal:Tennis^[15].
• tennis's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as sport=tennis^[16].
• tennis's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary^[17].
• tennis's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[18].
• tennis's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[19].
• tennis's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)^[20].
• tennis's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[21].
• tennis's described by source is recorded as Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921^[22].
• tennis's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge^[23].
• tennis's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica Ninth Edition^[24].
• tennis's topic has template is recorded as Template:Tennis-stub^[25].
• tennis's topic has template is recorded as Template:Tennis box^[26].
• tennis's has characteristic is recorded as tennis hall of fame^[27].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include type of sport^[3] and hobby^[4]. Recorded subclass of include ball game^[5], racket sport^[6], and Olympic sport^[7].

Origins

1873 marks the founding of tennis^[11].

Why It Matters

tennis ranks in the top 6% of type_of_sport entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,658 views/month).^[2] tennis has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28] tennis is known by 28 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[29]