How to Get Your Kid Interested in Tennis

Tennis is afun and exciting sport and with Wimbledon just around the corner, parents, who are tennis fans, may want to share the world's oldest tennis tournament or the sport of tennis with their kids. There are plenty of ways to get your young child excited about tennis! You may be surprised to find that it's not as hard as you think.

Play Tennis and Watch Live Tennis With Your Kids

Just as kids love to play football and baseball, kids generally enjoy tennis. Once a child gets into the sport, they will look for athletes as mentors and role models. Use the time to share stories experience and fun with your child. Also, as part of your quality time, watch local live matches at schools and at area courts. It's fun to have your child watch live action tennis so they understand that it is real and is fun.

Play Tennis with Your Kids

Exercise makes for healthier and happier kids. If you love the sport of tennis, play the sport with your child. Help them pick out their own racket, bags and ball. Carve out time in your schedules to share time on the court. This quality time will help create wonderful memories for you and your child and will establish a life long love for the sport of tennis.
Teach the History of the Sport of Tennis and Wimbledon

Wimbledon is steeped with sports history and came about to solve a club's money issue. Croquet was the popular sport in Great Britain. As a result, the All England Croquet Club was formed in 1868 in an outer suburb of London, called Wimbledon. The Club boasted plush lawns and acres of sport. Eventually, Welsh inventor Major Walter Clopton Wingsfield developed a new sport that could be played on lawns called "sphairistike." Wingsfield patented balls, nets and the like. He also modeled his game after the ancient Greek passtime of ball play. By 1875, Wingsfield sport, renamed lawn tennis, was played at the All England Croquet Club and was growing to be more popular than croquet. In the spring of 1877, the All England Club held the first Lawn Tennis Championship to help repair a broken lawn roller. Kids that love history would be intrigued by the rich stories about croquet, games from old cultures, lawn tennis and the technology used in the past to make beautiful lawns.

Read Books About Tennis and Tennis Greats

Kids love to read as much as they like playing in the sun! But, reading does not break as much sweat, though. There are so many entertaining books about tennis and tennis legends. Some books teach small kids wonderful lessons about rules and sportsmanship and others teach about the perseverance of men like Arthur Ashe, Althea Gibson and Billy Jean King. Books such as Berman's the Kid from Courage or Mantell and Henderson's Arthur Ashe: Young Tennis Champion.

If you love the tennis, and especially Wimbledon, your child will also! Summer sports are great fun and few are more exciting and rewarding as tennis. You and your child can enjoy many hours playing or