Sports Exploration

1. Choose a sport to research: (Football, Basketball, Baseball, Volleyball, Soccer, Golf, Tennis, etc.)
Tennis

2. Identify your favorite team or athlete for your sport. Search the Internet and find a picture of mascot or photo of the athlete. Save the image to your student folder. 
Serena Williams

Make a new folder called “Sports Exploration” in your student folder to save all of your files for this project. (10 points)

3. Find the most recent rankings for one team or athlete. Include a list of the top 5 teams or athletes for your sport.
Women's Singles:

1. Serena Williams
2. Simona Halep
3. Marina Sharapova
4. Petra Kvitova
5. Caroline Wozniacki

Base your rankings from an official ranking for your sport (like Hollinger Power Rankings). Not your opinion. (20 points)
Women's Tennis Rankings
Summary:

1. Wins, losses (5 points)
Won every match this year except one against Simona Halep.

2. Did the team make playoffs? If there are no playoffs, name the major tournaments that your team or athlete competed in? (10 points)
FED Cup Playoffs, Miami, Indian Wells, Australian Open.

3. Who won the top prize or top tournament for your sport last year? (5 points)
Serena Williams.

5. List three important rules for your sport. (10 points)

• You have to get at least 4 points to win a game. 
• You have to play at least 6 games to win a set. 
• First point is worth 15 game points, second point is worth 15 game points, third is worth 10 game points, fourth is game over (unless tied). 

6. List three examples of jargon for your sport and explain what they mean in words non-sport followers could understand. (10 points)

1. Love - meaning the match is 0 to 0. 
2. Deuce - the match is 40 to 40.
3. Game point - when a player needs only one point to win.

7. What is an example of sports cliché associated with your sport or athlete? What is another way you could say it without using a cliché? (10 points)
Cliché: Tennis players grunt when hitting the ball.
Tennis players are vocal while playing because of how hard they're working.

8. Name an athlete who is a legend for setting records for your sport.
Serena Williams.

• birth place
Saginaw, Michigan.

• school attended
Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale.

• teams played for
N/A. Has played with her sister Venus, though.

• records set
6 Grand Slam titles, Simultaneous holder of Olympic gold & and all four majors in doubles. Several more.