tennis
racket sport played on a court bisected by a net
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Summary
tennis is a type of sport[1]. tennis ranks in the top 6% of type of sport entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (29,740 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: hobby[3]
- Subclass of: ball game[4], racket sport[5], Olympic sport[6]
- Commons category: Tennis[7]
- Unicode character: 🎾[8]
- Country of origin: England[9]
- Inception: 1873[10]
- Authority: International Tennis Federation[11]
- Topic's main category: Category:Tennis[12]
- Commons gallery: Tennis[13]
- Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Tennis[14]
- OpenStreetMap tag: sport=tennis[15]
- Described by source: Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[16], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[17], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[18], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[19], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[20], Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921[21], The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[22], Encyclopædia Britannica Ninth Edition[23]
- Topic has template: Template:Tennis-stub[24], Template:Tennis box[25]
- Has characteristic: tennis hall of fame[26]
- Minimum number of players: 2[27]
- Maximum number of players: 4[28]
- Different from: Tenis[29]
- History of topic: history of tennis[30]
- Uses: tennis court[31], tennis racquet[32], tennis ball[33]
- Hashtag: tennis[34], テニス[35]
- Exact match: http://imagenet.stanford.edu/synset?wnid=n00482298[36]
- Practiced by: tennis player[37], professional tennis player[38], registered player[39], amateur tennis player[40], tennis coach[41]
Why It Matters
tennis has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[42] tennis is known by 45 alternative names across languages and contexts.[43]