Frequestly Asked Questions

There are four strong tennis racket brands. Wilson, Babolat, Head, and Yonex. Their popularity among tennis players varies, but all four brands are keeping a higher share of the market.

There two types of Tennis court at ITC. We have the Clay court and the Hard Court. Clay court is one of the types of tennis court on which the sport of tennis, originally known as "lawn tennis", is played. They are made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate depending on the tournament. They are also considered "slow" because the balls bounce relatively high and lose much of their initial speed when contacting the surface, making it more difficult for a player to deliver an unreturnable shot. Clay courts are unique in that the ball bounce leaves an impression in the ground, which can help determine whether a shot was in or out. Furthermore, clay courts are still playable in light rain because the courts are meant to be slightly wet when played on and the surface absorbs water better than hard courts. This is opposed to hard courts where play is usually suspended almost immediately during even light rain. The Hardcourt on the other hand, is a surface or floor on which a sport is played, most usually in reference to tennis courts. It is typically made of rigid materials such as asphalt or concrete, and covered with acrylic resins to seal the surface and mark the playing lines, while providing some cushioning. These courts tend to play medium-fast to fast because there is little energy absorption by the court unlike clay courts. The ball tends to bounce high and players are able to apply many types of spin during play.

Tennis is a popular sport played with a racquet and ball. Players can either play individually (single opponent) or with a team of two players (doubles opponent). To play Tennis with fair means, every player has to follow 10 certain rules & regulations. These rules are as follows: 1) A ball must land within the bounds for play to continue. If any player hits the ball outside of bounds, this process will result in the loss of a point for them. 2) Players or teams cannot touch the net or posts or cross onto their opponent's side. 3) Players or teams cannot carry the ball or catch it with the racquet. 4) No player can hit the ball twice. 5) All the players (either singles or doubles) must wait until the ball passes the net before they can return it. 6) A player that does not return a live ball before it bounces twice loses the point. 7) If, in case, the ball hits or touches the players, that counts as a penalty. 8) If, the racquet leaves the hand or verbal abuse occurs, a penalty is given. 9) Any ball that bounces on the lines of the boundary is considered good. 10) A serve must bounce first, before the receiving player can return it.

Table tennis, also called Ping-Pong is a ball game similar in principle to lawn tennis and played on a flat table divided into two equal courts by a net fixed across its width at the middle. The object is to hit the ball so that it goes over the net and bounces on the opponent’s half of the table in such a way that the opponent cannot reach it or return it correctly. The lightweight hollow ball is propelled back and forth across the net by small rackets (bats, or paddles) held by the players. The game is popular all over the world. The following are some rules in Table Tennis: 1. No hands on the table 2. When serving, the ball must be thrown 15mm 3. If the ball hits the net on service, you should serve again 4. The ball must be held in a flat palm above the table 5. If you ever held a table tennis paddle, you probably know that one of the sides has a black rubber and the other has a red one.

Darts or dart-throwing is a competitive sport in which two or more players bare-handedly throw small sharp-pointed missiles known as darts at a round target known as a dartboard.[2] Points can be scored by hitting specific marked areas of the board, though unlike in sports such as archery, these areas are distributed all across the board and do not follow a principle of points increasing towards the centre of the board. Though a number of similar games using various boards and rules exist, the term "darts" usually now refers to a standardized game involving a specific board design and set of rules. Darts is both a professional shooting sport and a traditional pub game. Here are some common rules to all of these games below: 1. Each player takes a turn in, throwing 3 darts. 2. To decide who starts, each player throws one dart at the bullseye - the one closest begins the game. (If you prefer, toss a coin.) 3. When it's your turn, throw one dart at a time, each dart score will tally to the total of all three darts thrown in that turn. But any dart that misses, bounces off or falls from the board, earns no score. If a dart sticks in another dart, it counts as a throw and gets no score.

Ayo is a traditional game played by the Yoruba people who reside in South Western Nigeria. Known as the "Game of the Intellectual", this game requires a lot of mathematical skill. Ayo is played in with carved wooden box, containing twelve holes (with six holes on each side), and 48 Ayo seeds (four seeds in each hole). The following are some rules in Ayo games: 1. The Ayo board is composed of two rows of six holes each, and 48 seeds are used; at the beginning, 4 seeds are placed in each hole. These are exactly the same equipment and setup as those of Warri and many other 2-row mancalas such as Layli Goobalay. Each player owns one of the rows. 2. Each turn the player takes all seeds from one of the holes and relay sows them counterclockwise. During each individual sowing, the starting hole is skipped (i.e., no seeds are dropped there even if more than 12 seeds are to be sown). When the last seed is sown in an empty hole, the player captures any seen in the opposing hole if this hole belongs to the player. 3. When one of the players cannot move anymore, the game is over. The opponent captures all the seeds that are left on the board and the winner is the player who captured most seeds. 4. If a turn ends with no seeds left in their row, the opponent must (if it is possible) choose their move in such a way to bring one or more seeds into the other's row. This scheme is found in many mancalas and sometimes referred to as "feeding" the opponent (i.e., save the opponent from starving).

Badminton is a racket sport played using rackets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players per side). Badminton is often played as a casual outdoor activity in a yard or on a beach; formal games are played on a rectangular indoor court. Points are scored by striking the shuttlecock with the racket and landing it within the other team's half of the court. The following are some rules in Badminton: 1. A player must wait until his opponent is ready before serving. If the opponent attempts a return then he is ruled having been ready. 2. The feet of both players must remain in a stationary position until the serve is made. Your feet can not be touching the line at this time. 3. It is not a fault if you miss the shuttle while serving. 4. The shuttle cannot be caught and slung with the racket. 5. A player cannot hold his racket near the net to ward off a downward stroke by his opponent or to interfere with his racket.

Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games, such as xiangqi (Chinese chess) and shogi (Japanese chess). The recorded history of chess goes back at least to the emergence of a similar game, chaturanga, in seventh-century India. Chess is an abstract strategy game that involves no hidden information and no elements of chance. It is played on a chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. At the start, each player controls sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two bishops, two knights, and eight pawns. White moves first, followed by Black. The game is won by checkmating the opponent's king, i.e. threatening it with inescapable capture. There are also several ways a game can end in a draw. The following are some rules in playing Chess: 1. The King may move one square in any direction, so long as no piece is blocking his path. 2. The Queen may move any number of squares straight or diagonally in any direction. 3. The Rook may move in a straight line, any number of squares horizontally or vertically. 4. Pawn development in the opening phase of the game. 5. Never take anything to the edge. 6. Never develop both your Bishops through the back gate.

Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles, each bearing a single letter, onto a game board divided into a 15×15 grid of squares. The tiles must form words that, in crossword fashion, read left to right in rows or downward in columns and are included in a standard dictionary or lexicon. The following are some rules in playing Scrabble: 1. You are to make a word using your tiles. The longer the word, the better. Try to make words longer than three letters unless you can get lots (10 or more) of points for a short word. 2. You must use tiles already on the board as part of the word you spell (you can’t just start a new word anywhere you want). 3. Words may only go from top-to-bottom or from left-to-right. 4. Any tile touching another tile must spell a real word (except tiles that only touch corner tips—they don’t count). 5. You may only spell English words. 6. You may not use abbreviations, acronyms, proper nouns or inappropriate words. 7. If you have all consonants or all vowels, you may trade your tiles from the bag and then take your turn. 8. If you think you can’t make a word, trade however many tiles you want with the bag, then skip your turn (try not to trade your tiles). 9. You may not trade tiles with other players. 10. You may not show other players your tiles, or ask them for help. 11. Count the points on the tiles of the word(s) you spell (doubling or tripling letters or words as needed). This is your score. 12. After you announce your score, as long as no one challenges, take enough tiles from the bag so you have seven tiles on your rack.