Summer Learning Journey 2019-20 | Week 1, Day 4 | Activity 1: Making a Racket

Welcome to another post on my blog. This is the fourth day for the Summer Learning Journey 2019-20. If you don't know, the Summer Learning Journey is a holiday programme where we do blog posts over the summer holidays. This is because we don't drop down in our reading and writing. Because over the holidays, we have so much fun and not do any reading or writing, so we drop down in our scores.

The first week of this Summer Learning Journey is about Physical Limits - Sport and Exploration.

DAY 4: INDIVIDUAL PURSUITS

Activity 1: Making a Racket [4 points]

Billie Jean King, Venus Williams, and Serena Williams are three exceptional, female tennis players. They are not only outstanding athletes and some of the best tennis players in the world, but they have fought for women to be recognised as equals to men in the game of tennis. Billie Jean King famously beat a male tennis player, Bobby Riggs, in 1973, to prove to the public that women could compete at any level in tennis.

Billie Jean King was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1987, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and was recently awarded the BBC Sports Personality of the Year - Lifetime Achievement Award.


For this activity, watch these videos about Serena and Venus Williams.

On your blog, tell us three things that you learned from watching these videos, as well as one thing you would still like to know.



What I learnt

• In 2017, Serena Williams was the highest paid women in athletes and Venus Williams was the fifth.
• Serena Williams made $84m (USD) less than Rodger Federer.
• In 2005, Venus Williams won Wimbledon in what was the longest women 

Serena and Venus Williams
Credit: https://www.forbes.com/