Anton Röhr gives a paper on 'Ready? Play! An Essay on the Relation between Ritual and Resonance in Tennis'

This paper tries to connect the abstract philosophical thesis of my dissertation about the relation between „ritual“ and „resonance“ with a specific topic, which is tennis. For that it analyses (in the first chapter) World-Self-Relationships in the domain of tennis and tries to point out moments of resonance, that can be experienced by players and spectators. After that, this Paper focuses (in its second chapter) on the fact, that resonance can never be completely controlled and predicted, which is an issue especially for the Players on court. Finally (in the last chapter) this Paper tries to develop an understanding on how rituals help tennisplayers to get in resonance with the game.