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Rationalisation and modern-day development of lawn tennis (Features:…
Rationalisation and modern-day development of lawn tennis
Aspired to be like upper class society
Middle class developed as were excluded from upper class real tennis
1877 named as a rational sporting activity for the middle class
Beginning of the open era where professionals were competing with amateurs
Emergence of elite female tennis players
Created separate tour away from men's providing large opportunity to allow women to play at a high level
Tennis one of the few sports where women's and men' s pay are equal
WTA helped promote equality in sport between genders
Increased role models for girls as a result
Features:
Played by the middle class
Organised by the middle class
Middle-class invention
Use of specialist equipment
Use of standardised rules
Played by males and females
Public provision
Lots of tennis tournaments began to go pro as money could be earned from performing
Illegal acceptance of money by amateurs lead to blurred lines in the distinction of amateur and professional
this occurred due to commercial pressures (1968) known as shamateurism
Wimbledon and other majors remained strictly amateur