Why do people keep on thinking that tennis is a lame sport?

***My friend says that tennis is for girls (im not a girl btw -_-) and that it’s so easy.***

If your “friend” says this, knowing full well that you’re a tennis player, then he’s really not your friend, sorry to say.

People who say tennis is a sissy sport usually have never played it, know next to nothing about it. It is an extraordinarily challenging sport, physically and emotionally.

One way to shut people like this up might be to say: “OK, lets play 2 out of 3 sets for $20 [or some other amount of money]. To make it interesting, I’ll spot you 1 or 2 points a game. Think of that! Every game begins with YOU ahead, 15-love, or 30-love. You’ll kick my butt all over the court.” [He won’t, of course.]

Another response might be: “Is boxing a sissy sport? Because tennis is a lot like boxing, only you can’t actually hit the guy. That’s basically the only difference.

***Why do a lot of people think tennis is so stupid?***

Tennis isn’t stupid, but a lot of people ARE 🙂

Hang in there, keep working on your game, and ignore [or stay away from] idiots who put tennis down or put you down.

You might consider taking a little tae kwon do in addition to your tennis instruction. Always good to know.

Sportsmanship might not be #1, but it’s way ahead of whatever is in 2nd place.

Best of luck 🙂

Source(s): Playing Teaching Coaching

haha if i had a dollar for every time ive heard someone say this about tennis…

People who say that tennis is a sport that is not physically challenging and is “lame”, haven’t experienced the toughness of this sport. Most people will think that tennis is just about running a couple steps and hitting a ball while making a grunting noise, but that’s completely wrong. Just cause tennis isn’t a sport that involves contact, people think that this is a sport for a <>. im sorry to say, but your “friend” doesn’t have the first clue about toughness. If he’s ever in a pressure situation, like being down 5-6 on a tiebreaker that decides the match, he would piss his pants. Tennis is a sport that not only requires physical toughness, but mental toughness as well. Go tell your idiot friend that he wouldn’t last in the world of tennis. Sorry for the language

Many people are too uncoordinated to even hit the ball let alone play a point, win a game, win a set, or win a match. People that say tennis is easy are just ignorant. Tennis is a physical (I don’t mean contact) sport but also requires mental strength. Perhaps tennis got a bad name because when it first originated it was only played by the upperclass, so perhaps less fortunate people became jealous and started creating rumours that it’s for “sissies.” Also North Americans love being tough, they think it’s cool to play football.. I think it’s just stupid. Yet for some reason golf is a hit. Frankly I don’t care why people don’t like tennis because I think it’s awesome.

Tennis is an expensive individual sport. Whoever thinks that is pretty cheap probably never had chance being trained. I used to play badminton. People think that’s a joke sports, including some tennis players. I always bet on icecream that I will beat them 15:0. And I always get the icecream:)

Anybody that says this has obviously never played the game. It requires a lot of physical strength and is very mentally draining. The reason that I’ve found that people think that it is easy is that it is a sport that anybody can play. It is true that anybody can play it easily without any strength or mind and have fun. The difference is between playing and playing WELL! Anybody can go out and just hit a ball, but challenge them to do it at your level. I was told this once so I told the guy to come to one of my practices. He was supposed to be this really athletic guy who could do anything and after our warm up, he threw up and had to quit. He never said anything like that again 🙂

Many people call tennis player’s sissies because they have grow up playing contact sports such as rugby, American football, and basketball. Many have also never played tennis in their lives either and have a philosophy that it takes no skill in playing tennis.

They think It’s easy because they don’t understand the toughness and how complicated it is.

They think it’s stupid because they don’t understand the strategies and how smart you have to be to choose the right choice at the right time when you play.

They think it’s not beautiful because they don’t understand the beauty of it.

They think it’s lame because they don’t understand tennis.

The say it because they don’t understand that they should respect others.

Alot of people have never played and only watched so they don’t understand the fundamentles of the game. But when they play they realise its hard but they don’t admit it they just say its a girls game since if their friends where ever to invite them to play tennis they have that excuse so they don’t embarrase themselfs. You need skills like power, agility, muscular endurance.

They are projecting their own lameness on tennis/

Because they have never played Tennis in their lives and / or simply don’t understand it.