The chart below shows numbers of adults participating in different major sports in one area, in 1997 and 2017. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

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The provided chart depicts the number of adults contributing to different major sports in an area both in 1997 and 2017.

Overall

tennis

always become the most popular sport,

while

basketball remains the fewest among adult sportspeople in the given years. Looking at the data in 1997, it can be seen that

tennis

had the highest value of enthusiasts, accounting for around 55,000. Followed by swimming at 35,000;

then

, golf, football and rugby shared virtually the same digits, slightly fewer than the aforementioned swimming number.

Furthermore

, cricket elucidated merely half of

tennis

, scoring at 25,000.

Hence

, basketball came to be the least contributor, with less than 10,000 people.

On the other hand

in 2017,

tennis

still came to be the leading sport for older sportsmen. Meanwhile, football and rugby remained at the second rank which shared a similar quantity at approximately 49,000.

Similarly

, golf and swimming

also

claimed the same figure at virtually 35,000.

Conversely

, cricket and basketball exhibited opposite set-ups that of 1997, swapping their position.

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