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| Tennis
A game similar to lawn tennis was first mentioned as far back as the beginning of the 11th century. In French monasteries that game was known as “jeu de paume” – literally “game of the palm”. Originally, it was played with the hands indeed, but over time players “armed” themselves with rackets. It was not until the 16th century that rackets took on conventional shape. A scoring system resembling in many respects modern tennis rules came into existence by that time.
Because of its popularity, lawn tennis was included in the Olympic program as early as the very first modern Olympiad (Athens, 1896). Tennis players took part in the Olympics until 1924. Thereafter, it was dropped from the Olympic competition as the distinction between professional and amateur players, according to the officials, “became all a blur”. “Olympic rehabilitation” of lawn tennis took place at the 1987 IOC Session held in Istanbul. Furthermore, its immense popularity all over the world encouraged official recognition of this “forbidden” sports event by the IOC leadership.
Lawn tennis found its way to Belarus after World War II. Such specialists as Ya. Markman, G. Patrov and M. Zverev were the early pioneers in the development of this national sports event – they began developing it in different regions of the country from scratch. Gradually, lawn tennis in Belarus started to make progress. The greatest success in world tennis among Belarusian athletes was achieved by Natasha Zvereva – in the 1990s, she was considered, quite deservedly, one of the world’s tennis leaders. Six times world double titlist and the 1992 Barcelona Olympics bronze medallist, she won more than 80 tournaments in her career. Owing to her eighteen victories in Grand Slam championship (the most prestigious tournaments of the tennis season), she ranks among five most successful sportswomen throughout the history of lawn tennis.
In 2004, men’s national team led by Maxim Mirny and Vladimir Volchkov, two standout Belarusian tennis players of the recent decade, ranked in the unofficial world team championship – the Davis Cup – top four. About ten thousand people trained by more than a hundred experienced specialists play this sport nowadays. Besides, new tennis courts in regional centers are being built with government support, “School Lawn Tennis” program is being successfully implemented in 35 general education schools of Minsk and gifted Belarusian juniors play in and win international tournaments held at the highest level.
The text is prepared with the help of “Belarus Tennis Association”.
Text from the official flyer “Tennis” of the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus | |
| Date : 28.12.2005 |
| Metal : Ag 925 |
| Diameter, mm : 39.00 |
| Weight, g : 33.94 |
| Mintage, St. : 7000 |
Minted by :
Moscow Mint of Goznak, Moscow, Russia |
Design :
S.Nekrasova |
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12,50 |
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