Volume 12, Number 7
25 October 2005





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Tennis Tips             By Dr. Alper Uğraş

Benefits of playing tennis:
* On psychological tests, tennis players scored higher in vigor, optimism and self-esteem and lower in depression, anger, confusion, anxiety and tension than other athletes as well as non-athletes.

* People who play tennis three hours per week (at a moderately vigorous
intensity) cut their risk of death from any cause in half, according to
physician Ralph Paffenbarger, who studied more than 10,000 people over a period of 20 years.

* Since tennis requires alertness and tactical thinking, it may generate new connections between nerves in the brain and thus promote a lifetime of continuing brain development.


 

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