Tennis is inaccessible to the poor in the same way that swimming is. You might think a simple YMCA membership to a gym with a pool is affordable, but for many impoverished families it just doesn't make sense compared to running around with a soccer ball or basketball.
Outdoor public courts have their issues. In a third of the US, it's too cold to play outside for half the year. And in many cities, public tennis courts are in high enough demand to where you need to be lucky to find an available one, and when you do, it's likely cracked up and run down with nets about to fall off. Even then, you'll feel awkward stumbling around not knowing what you're doing when there are plenty of people waiting for your court.
$3 for a can of 3 new tennis balls is a decent deal now, and they'll flatten out in a few months even if you don't play with them during that time. You need at THE VERY LEAST 6 balls or so to get anywhere near a reasonably efficient amount of practice instead of just running around picking up balls the whole time. Mire like at least 30-120 (for a beginner).
You can't pump air back into tennis balls like a basketball. You have to buy new ones.
If you play for *any* considerable amount of time, you'll start breaking strings. Even if you get super cheap $5 strings, labor cost for stringing starts at $15 BARE minimum, usually more these days. Or you can drop a couple hundred bucks on a REALLY cheap stringing machine and watch youtube videos to string it yourself and heavily risk completely messing up your racquet.
It's extremely rare for public high schools to do any tennis in PE, let alone even have enough racquets for students to use. And how many PE teachers in a poor school area can teach any tennis?
Borrowing your friend's shit to play in the park 5 times a summer is one thing. To play even at a basic, basic level to beat rich people like Jill and Tybalt (not to mention being able to rip shots powerfully and accurately enough at will to actually injure Tybalt with a soft fuzzy rubber ball) would take at least either 1) lower middle class income 2) some tennis friends who can really hook you up 3) literally pro-level natural talent (which actually wouldn't be too big of a stretch here given how Tremolo is an exceptionally talented person in general)
Yes some impoverished people succeed in tennis, but they are rare and really have to make up for it in those other assets, like the Williams sisters.
Bottom line: Tremolo has a huge fucking cock and is a tennis legend in another timeline
dude, you are making a way to big deal out of it, just like dalli...
the mc told Jill he played a little tennis... he TRIED it... trying out sports is very easy all over the place, in US too, like in europe there is nothing mentioned how many times the played, it could be easily once in a lifetime (and even than its not that uncommon to be pretty decent if you have a general high talent in sports, and the MC is obviously a talented guy, regarding sports, iam too by the way... and playing tennis without any experience wasnt a big deal for me either, nor for my buddy as he started as a kid, there are many people, that can start ANY sport just like that and are pretty decent in it, we are talking about being decent, not a professional)... MOST facilities are completley free for tryout, again in europe so in US... especially if you are in highschool you can try out every shit there is... (and about talent or playing on a level with jill and tybalt... you realise its a minigame in a fun-porn-game do you? Ah and well... you can fail it too?)
You and dalli sound like he is a pro or something and learned it in a proper way over years or whatever...
And dont start with "talent" its a minigame... and even so... i never played tennis before, but as i tried the first time, i was pretty decent beside the annoying serviceses (we later went on to scratch them and i played without doing those), i gave my buddy a pretty sweat.
nearly EVERY school has somewhat of a multiuse sportshall, where you can do ALL the sports which you can do indoors, even the very little schools in villages do have access to those. Most of my life i lived in a village with under 1500 citizens, what do you think which kind of school i was attending?
Our school got most things by donation, like basketballs, rackets and so on, for tennis, Badminton and all the other things... we were aorund 40 students for a PE lesson, and there were maybe 10 rackets for us all, so what did we? shared and the others did other things... the sports-hall was big enough to be split into 4 badmintion feilds and two tennis courts, maybe not EXACTLY big enough like the actual tennis courts are, so what? big enough to try it out...
You guys sound that every sports can only be done on the specific made courts with trainers and what not... but this is not the case. Most people try out sports just like me, grab a ball and go for it, went to school or a community center tried out what they offered, later on maybe living in a city there are places for public use, with tryout deals (nearly every sportscenter in germany has a tryout offer, you can rent their equipment very cheap and use the place for free for the first and second time, or a whole week, iam pretty sure thats the case in USA too, or a friend can take you with him for free, those deals are very common too)
A friend of mine, the very one i played tennis with, owned two rackets and a tube with balls... not more. and played like this for years. Yeah the balls werent new and were shitty later on, so what? they worked still, and around tennis courts you can gather many balls others just let lie around. So he were fine... he borrowed me his second racket and we were good to go.
My Badminton equip? Those balls are cheap, i had one racket, gift by grandparents, used it for nearly 10 years... where i played? School-sports-multiuse-hall in the evening twice a week, as a stundent this was for free. Only hurdle was to sign up for it, cause the space wasnt endless and we had to share with others. Was i ideal? of course not, were there any pros? neither... was it fun and competetive anyways? yeah.
And just like that you can try out sports, and thats what the MC did with tennis once or twice... he didnt played tennis for YEARS he just tried it out once or twice as he said... so whats the big deal? Most school-students are able to try out different sports... i guess if you think otherwise, you never bothered to try out anyways.
But nevermind, iam done with this... you guys are way to serious about little things in the game anyways... its a fucking minigame with no meaning whats so ever...
Or are you starting an argument now that the MC must have been to a very expensive cooking lesson cause he can flip pancakes like a pro? (if you dont screw up the minigame it is) or must have been to the NBA for nailing the basketball minigame? (if you dont screw that up)
With a little imagination you can maybe think, that Jill showed the mc the hang of it for some time... or do you think their tennis date lasted 2 minutes? With a little general talent for sports, its no big deal to play competitive with friends... and that the MC is a very talented guy in nearly everything should be obvious by now. Some guys are just that.
DPC didnt made a life simulator here... and i dont want one.
Think a little out of the box sometimes, and stop interpreting everything of the game way to serious and like it has to be very realistic. (like the very realistic size of his cock and the fact that he has more hair on his head AFTER a haircut than before for example, did you talked out that? no? why not?
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The mc tried out some tennis a while ago, there are multiple ways to go about it, without any costs and without any trainer... and thats about it, dont know what there is more to think about... but yeah, dalli is bored, i get it... every picture and every line in the game has some serious big conspiracy behind it. Little pointless to tell him to give DPC some slack, no not everything has a bigger meaning in the game... and with 100% certainty the tennis doesnt have any meaning whatsoever, it was just a fun way to integrate some minigame (and DPC just loves those) and give some banter with bella and a beating to tybalt if you like.
And for playing the "level" of Tybalt and Jill... well... its a minigame... you guys know... well... you can fail that and hit every ball in the net? Tried it out? You wander... you didnt return the ball once, but everyone was sweating a LOT... just a assumption... but... maybe its not real and DPC just didnt payed to much attention to that cuase he just wanted to add a simple minigame in the game and shows us what the other characters in the game are doing besides going to college? Just a freaking minigame without many depth to it?
Ah fuck it, why do i bother...
If you start doubting everything like this... there a million things about the game to go on like this... again, its not a simulator, its an funny little game about fucking a freaking lot of girls and funny things with a ton of drama where nothing realistic is about.
And there is no point in telling a sob story of the MC about being poor, if he wasnt... he tried tennis and some other sports out, i told you many ways to go about it... if you want to think that he had to do it with proper teaching and on professional facilties, so be it... but its nonsense.
In western countries its no big deal to try out any sport just a few times...