<p>Why do many asians have tennis as an extra curricular? Tennis isn't exactly a sport that doesn't require a high level of fitness like ping-pong or something.</p>
<p>tennis, ping-pong, …, see a correlation?</p>
<p>Well other racket sports such as ping pong and badminton are traditionally routed in oriental culture. Look at the Olympics, China performed a near sweep of the ping pong categories and also did very well in badminton. However, they have yet to produce a single world-class tennis player, with the exception of that one girl.</p>
<p>What other sports, at a HS level, rely little on incoming innate physicality, requires a high level of intelligence, and are suited for diligent workers that start at a young age? Golf and tennis are the only ones I can think of. Which explains why there are a lot of asians in golf and tennis.</p>
<p>Yeah other sports like track,volleyball, football require the inate gifts and abilities of height, speed and for boys a certain size. none of these things asians are famous for</p>
<p>we asians innately lack the physical capacity for many sports…they should give us some sort of affirmative action for that</p>
<p>ib612, I hope that was a joke. Who innately lack mental abilities?
And actually, China’s women’s volleyball team used to be one of the best in the world.</p>
<p>^Well, out of 500 million women, I’m sure they could find 10 taller than 6 feet.</p>
<p><-------- I run track and play basketball… =), and I’m only 5’10 hehe. Hopefully I grow some mooooreeee =D</p>
<p>And another thing…
Honestly, tennis is one of the easiest sports to pick up. Asians are naturally born with Ping-Pong skills…(I swear its true hahaha), so Tennis is just like… a bigger racket and a bigger ball. All it takes is some hand-eye coordination, and EVERYONE makes lower JV =D</p>
<p>most asians don’t have the physical or athletic abilities to join football or lacrosse. Plus, most of these sports are heavily dominated by white students, so its uncomfortable for them as well. Tennis doesn’t require any physical strength and you only rely on yourself.</p>
<p>Its really lame though, how at our school all the asians want to play tennis for the team. And I bet colleges are sick of it too.</p>
<p>Genetics sucks lol</p>
<p>well,im extremely interested in badminton.and im “not bad” at it.but unfortunately,badminton is not that popular in the us.i cant show my only athletic talent in where i live :(</p>
<p>im asian btw</p>
<p>My mom told me (My family is asian) that it’s because asians don’t like their children to be in contact sports. In badminton, tennis, volleyball, etc. you are separated from the other player by a net. In lacrosse (i play), basketball, hockey or football you share the same space with the other team and there is intense physical contact. Asians don’t…umm…like that…or something.</p>
<p>I like badminton as well but i just like messing around it’s not really a demanding “sport.” not unless ur an olympian. And football isn’t dominated by white people it’s dominated by black people.</p>
<p>Playing tennis at a competitive level does require you to be pretty fit. You don’t need to go through the athletic training the football players do, true, but you can’t be a fat slob and hope to do well in the sport.</p>
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<p>It is a lot harder than it looks.</p>
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<p>Just because you aren’t good at it, or don’t take it seriously doesn’t make it not a sport. In some countries it is played pretty competitively.</p>
<p>I’m asian and i play soccer. Closest i can relate top asian sports is probaly handball. And Tennis is harder than it looks.</p>
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<p>I agree wholeheartedly. As a spatially challenged person, I’m particularly skilled at missing the ball, almost like Charlie Brown missing the football because Lucy (for me, an invisible hand) pulls it away all the time.</p>
<p>Haha I’m asian and I play tennis. I didn’t start playing until a few years ago, it was easy to pick up as compared to soccer which I played when I was younger, and I’m on varsity tennis as a junior. And you get to wear cute clothes. Life is great. Hahaha.
Also, I have to say that it’s pretty simple to pick up, but it takes effort to be really, really good at it.
But yes, basically tennis is a very individualized sport involving quite the intellect and strategy on your part, it’s not as rough, it’s similar to table tennis…
I do have a chinese friend who plays varsity football though :]</p>
<p>Obviously people here haven’t played tennis. Like any sport, you can just “pick it up”, but being good at it is incredibly difficult. It is a very techinically demanding sport that requires a combination of an extremely coordinated body, intense mental toughness, and very good reflexes. However, unlike ping pong, serious tennis is physically very demanding. And if you want to be really good, you need speed and power.</p>
<p>When you slap a ball around you can call it tennis. But if you want to be actually good at it, you need to go through a lot of work to first become a technically sound player.</p>
<p>As for fitness…if you want to be good at any sport, you need to be fast and powerful. Tennis can be played at a decent level without a high level of fitness, but if you want to beat better players, you need to be able to get to more balls and get around the court quickly.</p>
<p>I’d say tennis is popular among asians because it is more of a “gentleman’s” sport, with little contact between players. Also, although strength is important, one does not need to be even remotely close to jacked to play well. A coordinated body is more important to achieve 100 mph serves and penetrating strokes.</p>
<p>As for talent, it still takes some to be good at tennis. Roger Federer and Raphael Nadal were both soccer prodigies capable of going pro; and look where they are for tennis.</p>