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In 1840-1901 was the beginning of women in sports, and then it was only in very few events they participated in. Tennis was played by women in the 1880’s which was more like batminton now. Even though tennis has been popular with the women for so long it still did little to help the future of women’s team sports. It wasn’t until 1972 when Title lX, The Educational Amendment Act, was passed that said: Federal money could not be given to public school programs that discriminated against gender. Schools then had to have equal teams for girls and boys. They had to have equal equipment, scholarship funds, and teams to get government funding. That’s what has helped womens sports grow tremendously. Girls of Sunday Sports could include every woman these days, from church teams to professional sports. Women are very successful and talented in sports, Women are given drive, by the disbelief that we can not achieve the same goals that men do. Women in sports has had to overcome a lot of differen …

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Then he greets our opponents and goes back to the base line and gently hits a few practice groundstrokes. “Hey, I’m ready. Let’s play!” The play began. Naturally our opponents tried to hit as many balls to me as possible, but if Bobby could reach a ball he would hit some off-speed shot, a junker, to set up a weak return and then he’d put it away. At five games all he stopped the match and asked our opponents, “I know you guys are going to beat us because we are really struggling here. But just to make it interesting Marv and I want to press the bet and make it $500 at corner. How does that sound?” Without hesitation, they both smiled and agreed. They were clearly out playing me, but I hung in and the points got longer. The more I could stay in the point, the longer it got. The crowd loved it. Point after point I hung in just long enough for Bobby to get his racket on the ball and do something spectacular. My heart was pounding. Then after some wild points, Bobby ends up putting away a …

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