Imagine visiting a famous gallery, In the first room, you find classical sculptures. In the second room, Impressionist paintings. In the third room, you find a tennis court.

Writers often liken tennis matches to works of art. This is especially true at Wimbledon, with its grass courts, uniformed umpires and players dressed in white. Journalists compare the players making elegant shots to painters, musicians, and poets.

Audiences at Wimbledon will often laugh, gasp, cry and break out in applause, just like people at the theatre.

The boundary between art and sport is difficult to define. Take rhythmic gymnastics, where dancers create beautiful displays, or figure skating, or the new Olympic category of Breaking.

Football is called the beautiful game and boxing the noble art. Yet to most people, a work of art is an object like a sculpture or book created to express serious meanings or ideas of beauty. Sport means competition, but there are no winners in poems and plays.

But games can bring people together and get them exercising outside, which is good for mental and physical health. When a team is doing well, sports can give an entire city or country something to hope for together.

Can sports be art?

Yes! Athletes are as skilful as artists. Games are as exciting as stories. Winning or losing has as much emotion as love or loss. There is no difference between sport and art.

No! There may be similarities between art and sport, but they are not the same. When we want to understand our lives, we turn to films and novels, songs and paintings.