Nhiều người Việt 'la hét lung tung' khi xem thể thao

để các đấu thủ tập trung, thậm chí nghe cả tiếng bóng chạm dây vợt của đối thủ để đoán đó là quả trả bóng như nào...

đây là môn thể thao quý tộc, được chơi bởi các nhân vật hoàng gia châu âu từ những năm 1500s, nhất là ở anh khi vua Henry VIII rất hâm mộ (một vài nguồn cho rằng tennis bắt nguồn từ tenez = here, take this, này, nhận đi)

giải wimbledon đầu tiên bắt đầu năm 1877, US Open là năm 1881, toàn nước Mỹ có 288.000 sân tennis,

đánh volley (khi bóng chưa chạm đất) và lob (qua đầu) bị coi là phi thể thao :), ví dụ, cú lob khiến đối thủ trông 'ngớ ngẩn' vì phải quay lại, chạy đuổi theo bóng, và đánh trả một cú vụng về,

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...Another theory is that players need silence to hear the sound the ball makes coming off an opponent’s strings. The ball is coming so fast—140 miles per hour, sometimes—that players need all the information they can get. It’s true that the ball makes different sounds when hit with different spin or force, but it’s not clear that that information is required for high-level play. 

...One other reason for silence that is offered, and one that I happen to like (taking into account the aristocratic (quý tộc) roots), is that tennis as it is played today, is an unusual, slightly deranged (bị loạn trí, bị trục trặc) sport. Singles players (at the major tournaments, at least) are completely alone. They walk out in front of huge crowds, all by themselves. They have to carry their own equipment, their own water bottles full of mysterious colored liquids, their own bananas. They are not permitted to communicate with coaches in any way (though it’s generally acknowledged that illegal coaching, like hand signals from the stands, is common). In singles, there aren’t any teammates to talk to or lean on. Matches are not timed, and in some tournaments they can theoretically go on for hours and hours. And these are not amateurs playing for fun and wine casks, they’re world-class athletes who’ve spent their entire lives training mentally and physically to balance speed and power, stamina and precision, instinct and planning. This all combines to make tennis a psychotically destructive sport. “The good news is, you have space to concentrate. The bad news is, you have space to concentrate,” says Drucker. Players have visible breakdowns, hitting themselves with their racquets, destroying equipment, screaming at themselves in unhinged, self-directed monologues, or engaging in deeply personal tirades with officials. No other sport is like this so regularly. It makes for a tense, sometimes uncomfortable, extremely entertaining viewing experience.