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

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

4 points

3 months ago

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

6 points

3 months ago

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

5 points

3 months ago

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

4 points

3 months ago

Is it, though? Is Spain, Poland and Balkan so much less populated than Germany or France?

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banghida@lemm.ee

2 points

3 months ago

Yes.

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lemming@sh.itjust.works

5 points

3 months ago

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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banghida@lemm.ee

0 points

3 months ago

Go see in person or find better data. Spain is a desert between big towns. Poland has only 35ish M people on all that land. You can drive for hours in west Balkans without seeing a single settlement. Croatia, for example has less than 4M people in an area which is bigger than the Netherlands. The Netherlands has like 18M people.

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Servais (il/le)@discuss.tchncs.deOP

5 points

3 months ago

Using http://www.luminocity3d.org/WorldPopDen/#10/44.1517/0.0082

The West of France seems to have a high number of tennis courts for the population, probably because it’s a a tourist area.

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lemming@sh.itjust.works

1 point

2 months ago

You mean like official EU data? https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/demo_r_d3dens/default/map?lang=en And “go see in person” is a very bad advice to anything data-related in most cases. Compating population density anywhere in Europe with Netherlands isn’t fair. Poland, Hungary and Romania (and north Balkan as well, it seems) have denser population than rural France, for example. Spain is less densely populated, but still has about as many tennis courts, so it must have much more per capita. It just isn’t a population density map. It is another Iron curtain division map, but even so, Czechia and Slovakia stand out as exceptions. There is interesting information in there.

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