all right welcome back you know the US
Open women's final is tomorrow and
listen up veteran queen of the court 36
year old new mom Serena Williams will
face 20 year-old Naomi Osaka the first
Japanese woman to make it to the US Open
finals it's Williams 31st Grand Slam
final
she's also trying for her 21st Grand
Slam title she is unbelievably talented
so tennis is a sport of course that many
people say you can play for your entire
life and it's never too late to learn
how to play in honor of the US Open
tennis Stephanie Ghazala stopped by
lifetime Galleria tennis to learn the
very first steps of playing the game the
2018 US Open is happening right now
it's the 138th edition of the tournament
and the fourth and final Grand Slam
event of the year tennis can be really
fun to watch but did you know about all
of its health benefits for example it
can lower resting heart and blood
pressure let's learn more tennis is kind
of it's a great physical activity to
burn some extra calories if you're not
wanting to get into the gym or if you're
not wanting to get into pump to that
treadmill so how many calories can be
burned when you go out in there and play
about an hour of singles you're gonna be
burning anywhere from 550 to 870 and
anyone can play all ages can play
anywhere from two years old all the way
up past nineteen so
9 years olds youngest is 3 we do have 9
tennis courts here so as you can see we
got 4 here on this side we got 5 on the
other side we are that hidden gem so how
does scoring work in tennis scoring is a
little bit tricky but if you always
remember it's always the first person to
four points wins one
first person to win six games wins one
set and then
you play two out of three sets love is
zero wait wouldn't mean so if you say
love love all love zero zero zero zero
love 15 a zero so what is your love is
not good and
correct so you would think that love is
good like hey I got a love today I'm
ready to learn reading something
hopefully I don't get love now that we
know how scoring works let's learn the
basics so we're gonna start nice and
close like this back up just a little
bit more but we're just gonna go nice
and easy and then we're gonna kind of
progress our way back good yep just let
it bounce control that racket
that's it
up next the move that made me look like
a real champ all right you ready for a
backhand I'm ready for this there it is
good put that out yeah that's in now
let's learn how to serve honest serve
anytime you're serving you're always
gonna serve in to the opposite box okay
so to start you're always gonna start on
the right side of this hash mark right
here okay so your target is the opposite
box on the other side and you can't
forget to shout out the score when
you're serving 15 Oh
13:15
one tip that'll help is is knowing when
you know the boundary that you're
playing in is make sure that you that's
where majority of the balls are gonna be
landing okay so you always want to
recover or find a recovery spot to kind
of get back to give yourself a little
bit more time to see where the ball is
gonna land and that way you can judge it
a little bit more easily after this I'm
sure all of us will be watching the US
Open tennis very differently now we're
gonna know what's really going on now we
can all play tennis right keep in mind
about the 2018 US Open and this Sunday
September 9th all right well if you want
to learn the basics of tennis or to get
your Serena Williams on just visit
lifetime dot life we can all play as
well as Serena rights Oh in our dream in
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