Competitive Tennis Match (Week 4)

This week, we did not have a field trip unfortunately, but I learned more about Australian's and their love with sports by watching girls play tennis at one of the colleges. This past weekend, I was walking by and saw two girls warming up to play tennis. I then proceeded to walk up to the fence and watch these two girls warm up, and they play for a little bit to get the experience of watching tennis in another country. 

I know that the game of tennis cannot change much from country to country, but I wanted to see how competitive these girls were. As I stood against the fence during their warm up, the girls were so competitive that if the ball hit the line one of them would yell at the other to try and prove that the ball was actually in bounds. I feel like in America during a warm up girls would not yell at one another, rather play for fun to warm up their muscles. It made me realize what the lecturers were saying all along, how Australians are so competitive with everything that they do, especially sports. As the girls proceeded in actually playing, the intensity got even stronger and one of the girls wanted her friend to come and be the referee of the match to make things fair. I was very surprised by this request since they were only playing for fun, but once again, Australians are in love with their sports, and will probably always be.