Sports & Fitness
Tennis
The court is big, and the running is most of the sport
What separates it from the other racket sports is fitness: the court is large enough that distance covered in a point matters more than how you swing. The serve is the hardest gate, plenty of people double-fault for years, and it is worth a few lessons on its own. A wall lets you practise alone.
First stepSign up for an adult beginner clinic, most of which will loan you a racket, and by the end be rallying a few forehands and tossing a serve straight up.
Barriers
Cost to start
Under $50
Going deep → $2k–10k
Alone or with people
Anyone will do
Effort
Demanding
Without a teacher?
Best with a class
One session takes
1–2 hours
Where
A venue
Why people take it up