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African-Caribbean’s participation in sport has improved drastically in the twentieth century. The United Kingdom (UK) has had many successful professional African-Caribbean’s for a variety of sports including football, basketball, athletics, cricket and boxing. However, professional African-Caribbean athletes have been scarce in sports such as swimming, golf, tennis, and gymnastics. The aim of this study is to answer why there is a lack of tennis African-Caribbean participating in tennis in the UK. The lack of professional African-Tennis players in the UK was original area but due to the lack of subjects this was not possible. To study is aimed to find African-Caribbean’s perception and experiences in tennis as well as their reasons for a lack of African-Caribbean participation in tennis.
The Lawn Tennis Association have identified that participation of ethnic minority groups is a problem area (LTA, 2001). ... The LTA has often been criticized in its methods of producing champions; the best they have produced is recent years is Tim Henman; currently outside the world top 10 and Greg Rusedski; a product of Canadian tennis. Ethnic minority groups in professional sports have tended to participate in other sports than tennis. If the LTA want to increase the amount of players at excellence level then they have to widen their base at the foundation level of the sport development continuum, including all population groups.
Approximate Word count = 1093
Approximate Pages = 4.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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