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Tennis Sports – Basic Rules For Playing Tennis

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Interested in taking up the game of tennis sports? The rules of tennis sports are actually quite simple, but playing the game can be complex! Listed below are the basic rules for playing tennis sports:

1. Players stand on opposing sides of the court. The player who hits the ball to start the game is called the server. The other player stands on the opposite side, and diagonally across from the server and is called the receiver.

2. Which player serves first and which side of the court they start on is decided by the toss of a coin.

3. Singles tennis is one player against another. Doubles tennis is two players per side. In doubles tennis, the players alternate serving and hitting the ball, and one player stands closer to the net than the other.

4. The server stands in back of the baseline and serves the ball when the receiver is ready. If the ball hits the net but remains in-bounds, the server is allowed another serve.

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5. The receiver can stand anywhere but must let the ball bounce in bounds prior to hitting. The ball cannot be hit before it bounces, or the server wins the point.

6. The server must call the score prior to serving, saying his score first. (see scoring, below).

7. If the ball is hit into the net, or bounces on the outside of the boundaries of the court, the player who hit that ball loses the point. If the ball hits the net during play but lands in-bounds on the opposing player’s side of the court, the ball is still good and in play. A player loses the point if he happens to touch the net, accidentally manages to drop his racquet during a swing, the ball bounces over the net, the ball hits a part of the surrounding area such as roofs or trees, he is hit by the ball, or he tries to distract the opponent in any way.

8. A ‘let’ is called during the point if there is a distraction from someone besides the players on the court. Like a ‘do-over’.

9. A ball that lands on the line is still in play.

Basic rules for playing tennis sports – SCORING

The first point won by a player is called 15; the second is 30, the third is 40, and the 4th point won wins the game. However, If both players have each won three points, then the score is ‘deuce’; and the next player to score a point then has ‘advantage’. If the ‘advantage’ player wins the next point, they win the game; if the other player wins the next point the score will be counted as ‘deuce’ again, and this will be the case until one or the other player finally wins with two points after the ‘deuce’ score is called.

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