Tennis!

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Tennis!

• Jennie Hofmann
• Block 2 B-day

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Tennis- Rules

• There are two ways to play tennis.
• Singles Game (one vs. one)
• Doubles Game (two vs. two)

• To start the game, either a coin is tossed or
  the racket is spun.
• The winner chooses (or may require their opponent
  to choose) to be the server or reciever and
  chooses which side of the net they will play on.

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Doubles Game

• The outside boundary lines enclosing the alleys
  are used.
• Order of Service (Rotation)
• A/B are partners against C/D
• First game A serves, second game C, third B, and
  fourth D. (Then it starts over with A etc.)
• This rotation is maintained throughout the set.
  (A set is the winning of 6 games)

B
C
lt-----
Baseline
A
D
-------------gt
Alley
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Service Rules

• Delivery-
• Both feet must be behind the baseline and inside
  the center mark and the singles sideline.
• Must toss the ball into the air and hit it before
  it hits the ground.
• Must serve diagonally across the court.
• Serve starts in the right hand court in every
  game
• Server has 2 chances to get the serve in on each
  point.
• Must call out the score before you serve
  (servers score announced first).

Diagonal Serve
C

A
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Service Faults

• Foot Fault -------------gt
• Stepping over the baseline
• Server misses the ball when attempting to hit it.
• The ball hits on the servers side of the net.
• Two faults on the same point is called Double
  Fault
• Server loses the point

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Let

• The ball tips the net and falls over into the
  proper service court.
• The reciever is not ready.
• When a let is called, the point is replayed.

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Scoring

• Love-------gt Zero
• 1st point -------gt 15
• 2nd point-------gt 30
• 3rd point-------gt 40
• 4th point-------gt Game (as long as one player is
  2 points ahead)
• Duece-------gt Score is 40-40(player must win next
  two consecutive points to win the
  game)
• Ad-in------gt First point after duece if server
  wins.
• Ad-out-------gt First point after duece if
  reciever wins

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Loss of Points

• Player fails to return ball
• The ball bounces twice before returning it
• Player touches net with body or racket
• Player reaches over net to hit the ball
• Double Hit - Player hits the ball more than once

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Examples
Ready Position
Serve
Return
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Work Cited

• Internet Pictures
• www.jubi-net.com
• http//www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/
  radio/specials/images/144_tennis/3143030_let.gif
• http//www.power-tennis.com/usr/pop/foot_fault.gif
  
• www.edukacija.com
• http//www.threadartist.com/embroidery/embroidery-
  designs-tennis-racket-ball.jpg
• http//www.aero.org/publications/crosslink/winter2
  001/images/02_coin.gif
• http//www.yorknewstimes.com/images/sig/TennisBall
  _Racket.jpg