Tennis offers many diverse advantages:

• Tennis is one of the only active sports that many can participate in well into their later years.

• Tennis promotes social contact providing psychological benefits.

 

• Tennis is fun! Players, when having fun, you are more likely to stay on the court longer.

• Tennis is a group activity and a commitment is made to others to play at a certain time. It is much easier to put off a visit to the gym  than to not show up for tennis when others are expecting you.

• Participating in physical activities can lead to a longer and healthier life.

 

• Tennis requires the use of strategic brain function, and the exercise increases the blood flow to the brain. This combination is believed to increase the generation of synapses and permit increased brain function which may delay dementia.