subject: Sporting Bet - The History Of Tennis And Modern Day Events [print this page] The modern game of tennis originated in the United Kingdom in the late 19th century as "lawn tennis" which has heavy connections to various field/lawn games as well as to the ancient game of real tennis. After its creation, tennis spread throughout the upper-class English-speaking population before spreading around the world. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all ages. The sport can be played by anyone who can hold a racket, including people in wheelchairs.
The rules of tennis have not changed much since the 1890s. Two exceptions are that from 1908 to 1960 the server had to keep one foot on the ground at all times, and then the adoption of the tie-break in the 1970s. A recent addition to professional tennis has been the adoption of electronic review technology coupled with a point challenge system, which allows a player to challenge the line (or chair) umpire's call of a point. Players have unlimited opportunity to challenge, but once three incorrect challenges are made in a set, they cannot challenge again until the next set. If the set goes to a tie break, players are given one additional opportunity to challenge the call. This electronic review, currently called Hawk-Eye, is available at a limited number of high-level ATP and WTA tournaments.
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More and more people are betting on tennis while the action is unfolding and this is called in play betting. At Sportingbet we always have a wide range of in play betting markets like Next Point, Next Game and Next Set. We also offer a Game Handicap market which gets updated as the game takes place. We now see over half our tennis business focussed solely on in play betting.
The tennis calendar seems to grow bigger every year now with the first Grand Slam of the season, the Australian Open taking place in January and the season finale, the ATP World Tour Finals taking place in late November. It's a tough life being a tennis player but not if you're a tennis punter as we offer betting on not just all the big events like Grand Slams and Masters Series but also the smaller Challenger events where our in play service remains steady. So if you have a good knowledge of tennis make sure you take advantage of it by betting at Sportingbet.
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