Tennis: history and the present

Abstract

Purpose a substantiation of ways of development of professional sports in Ukraine (on a tennis material). The primary information is received by the analysis of the scientifically-methodical literature and the documentary sources, official sites of organizational structures of tennis (АТР, WТА, ITF, continental and national federations, organising committees of tennis tournaments, tennis academies etc.) (more than 450 sources); the method of expert estimations (the qualified experts, judges, trainers, science officers 26 people) was applied. In article possibility of use of tennis as by one of effective models of development of Olympic kinds of sports in conditions of commercialization and professionalization is theoretically proved; the history-theoretical analyzes of development of professional tennis in the world (3 periods) is carried out; the analyzes of its organizational-legal and economic forms at the international and national levels.