SPHERE SHAPES IN SPORTS

Sphere is one of the most common and fascinating shapes in nature and most sports utilise the sphere shape in one way or another in the game. This website will introduce you to a collection of games that the author plays in his leisure time which uses a spherically shaped object.

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TENNIS

TENNIS BALL

Description:
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent or between two teams of two players each. Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's court.

Game Discovered: 19th century, England
Team members: Singles or doubles
Author's ability: Beginner
Author's height achievement: Have not participated in any competition
Frequency played: Twice a week over summer vacation

TENNIS COURT

TABLE TENNIS

PING-PONG BALL

Description:
Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net.

Game Discovered: 19th century, England
Team member: Singles ordoubles
Author's ability: Professional
Author's height achievement: School Champion (2017-2018)
Frequency played: Twice a week

TABLE-TENNIS TABLE

POOL

BILLIARD BALL

Description:
Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as cushions. Pool is a form of cue sport.

Game Discovered: 15th-century Europe
Player Number: Two to Four
Author's ability: Intermediate
Author's height achievement: Have not participated in any competition
Frequency played: Weekends

POOL TABLE

FOOTBALL

FOOTBALL

Description:
Association football, more commonly known as simply football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.

Game Discovered: Mid-19th century England
Team members: Eleven
Author's ability: Intermediate
Author's height achievement: School Champion (2015-2016),(2018-2019)
Frequency played: Fortnightly

FOOTBALL GROUND

ABOUT

MAHDIR SHAFIN HASAN
A second year student at Monash University studying Engineering and specialising in Robotics and Mechatronics. This collection shows the hobbies that the author has. Currently he is living in Melbourne and the photos of the collection are all taken inside Monash University. The whole collection can be found at monash university.

CONTACT

EMAIL: mhas0039@student.monash.edu

PHONE NUMBER: 1234567

ADDRESS: Wellington Rd, Clayton VIC 3800

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