Tennis Tips for Seniors and Every Tennis Lovers
Is tennis swearing a problem? Those who run both professional tennis tours are equally anxious to make sure that the game presents a family-friendly image, with players showing competitiveness but not straying beyond the bounds of what the tours consider appropriate professional behaviour. They hope this will mean that more parents are likely to encourage …
If you have paid to watch a tennis match you will hope, at the very least, to see both players trying to win. If one of them appears to be making no effort you will feel that you have wasted your money, and this feeling will be further amplified if you have bet on the …
In tennis, there are specific amounts of time allowed for the warm-up, changes of ends, between points, and for an injury time-out. These limits are intended to make sure that there are no undue delays, whether inadvertent or tactical, and matches are completed within a reasonable amount of time. Of course, in practice, players do …
“Women’s Final changeover view” by JC is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. Periodically during a tennis match, the players change ends. This is intended to ensure that, where a match takes place outdoors, one player is not particularly favoured by conditions such as the angle of the Sun or the direction of the wind. In …
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At all levels of the game, tennis players are expected to follow a code of conduct. This code requires them to behave in a certain way, and if they do not do so, a range of penalties applies, extending from a warning to an immediate default. So, what are the tennis disqualification rules, and what …
Did you know about the Tennis Unwritten Rules? We have considered the rules of tennis, as set down by the International Tennis Federation (ITF), elsewhere on this site. The regulations are designed to be specific, in order to remove all doubt about what needs to be done in any given situation, and they include helpful …
What is the tennis hindrance rule? Why does it matter? The tennis hindrance rule was introduced to prevent any tactics designed to affect a player’s concentration or psychological state during a match, and is designed to make sure that opponents cannot put us off our shot, either deliberately or accidentally. This rule is in stark …
Tennis is a pretty simple game, based on hitting a ball over a net with a specially-designed racket into a standard sized court. You and your opponent(s) keep doing this until one of you either fails to hit the ball over the net or into the marked court area. Each point you win in this …
Traditionally, a set of tennis would continue until one player, having won a minimum of six games, led by two clear games. As you can imagine, if the competitors were well matched, with powerful serves that were difficult to break, matches could go on for some considerable time. Whilst some traditionalists wanted to maintain this …