Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Journal Entry # 26


Compare and contrast two sports.

Tennis vs. Badminton

Tennis and badminton are usually compare and contrast to each other. Both of them need rackets and balls to play. Players are standing at the end of the courts and hit a shuttlecock or tennis ball over the net to opposite side. The shuttlecock is a ball which in badminton and tennis ball is in case of tennis. Besides the balls have to land in the lines. Although tennis and badminton are sports which using rackets, balls and similar rules, there are several differences between them. One of different is that badminton is more physical sport. The tennis match lasted 3 hours and 18 minutes whereas the badminton match lasted 1 hour and 16 minutes. However, during the matches, 1,004 shots were made in the tennis, compared to the 1,972 shots in the badminton. Therefore, the badminton players hit twice time as tennis players in half running time. To sum up, they look like similar sports, but they are completely different.

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