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Tennis Court Density of Europe(files.catbox.moe)

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SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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Oh, another population density map.

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manucode@infosec.pub
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Servais (il/le)@discuss.tchncs.deOP
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I added a population map, there are still a few outliers

  • South England has a lot of tennis courts for the population
  • Same for West of France
  • East Germany has a high population but no court
  • Mallorca is a tourist hotspot
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allywilson@lemmy.ml
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South England has a lot of tennis courts for the population

Is it? Isn’t it the most densely populated area in Europe?

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Successful_Try543@feddit.org
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I’d rather say tennis isn’t that poular in eastern Europe.

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jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
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Tennis is not very popular anywhere. If we use the number of top players each region has as proxy for how popular tennis is relatively, then it’s not doing that bad in eastern Europe.

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Successful_Try543@feddit.org
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At least in Western Germany, there has been a tennis boom in the 1980s and 90s when Boris Becker and Steffi Graf were active and successful. Thus, you can still see the inner German border between GDR and FRG on the map.

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Rexelpitlum@discuss.tchncs.de
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Partly yes, but also of culture/history.

E.g. England that invented it having a really high density or Eastern Germany being basically blank (main tennis hype has been in the 80’s in Western Germany).

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nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca
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This map would actually be interesting if it were normalized against population density. Tennis court density per 1000 inhabitants. Probably need to do it per 100.

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lemming@sh.itjust.works
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Is it, though? Is Spain, Poland and Balkan so much less populated than Germany or France?

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banghida@lemm.ee
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Yes.

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lemming@sh.itjust.works
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Are we looking at the same pictures? Spain is less dense, but Poland seems mostly denser than rural France and Balkan roughly the same.

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colourednumbers@slrpnk.net
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Please correlate the data with population density. Tennis courts per person will give a better insight into where tennis is popular.

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iAvicenna@lemmy.world
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needs to be in m^2 tennis court per person format

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Vinny_93@lemmy.world
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Apparently Portugal and Spain mostly play it by the water

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Rexelpitlum@discuss.tchncs.de
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…or provide sports facilities for tourists?

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Vinny_93@lemmy.world
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I think the population density argument plays best here. I’m not as well versed in Spain, but for Portugal the largest concentration is Porto and Lisbon.

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Rexelpitlum@discuss.tchncs.de
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For Spain the highest concentration seems to be on Mallorca, which is a tourist hotspot.

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Taalen@lemmy.world
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Missing the tennis court near my family cottage.

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