Saturday 24 August 2013

Long Tennis Rules

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Tennis is a sport requiring quickness, athletic ability, hand-eye coordination, speed and strength. The game is played on an indoor or outdoor court and the object of the game is to hit the ball over a 3-foot net so that your opponent cannot return a shot successfully. Players start the game with a shot called a serve, and players continue to serve until a game is completed and then the opponent gets control of the serve.

A tennis court is 79 feet long and 27 feet wide. The net in the middle of the court is hung on two posts on the side of the court. The two posts are 3 feet, 6 inches high and the net must measure 3 feet in height at the middle of the court.

Play in tennis is started with the serve. The serve starts by standing behind the baseline at the rear of the court on the right side. He must toss the tennis ball straight overhead and strike the ball directly so that it lands in the serving box on the opposite side of the net to the server’s left. If he misses on his first serve, he gets another attempt to put the ball in the box on a second serve. If he fails on the second attempt, the receiver gets a point. The returner stands behind the box, then hits the ball back over the net after it bounces in the service box. Subsequent shots by either player may land anywhere in the court of play. If the ball hits the net and bounds over, it is considered a good shot. If it hits the net and bounces backward, the point goes to the opponent. After a point is over, the process begins again, with the only difference being that the server stands behind the baseline on the left side and hits the ball into the right service box.

Most matches are in a best-of-three format. The first player to win two out of three sets wins the match. In order to win a set, you must win six games and must be ahead of your opponent by at least two games. The first player to win four points in a game wins that game if he is ahead by two points or more. But if the game is tied at three points, a player must win two consecutive points before winning the game. The scoring system is somewhat confusing. Instead of being ahead 1-0, 2-1 or 3-2 in points, a player who wins the first point is ahead “15-love.” If he wins the second point, it is “30-love.” If the receiver wins the next three points, the score would be “30-40.” If the server ties the score by winning the next point, the score would appear to be 40-40, but the server would say “deuce” when he announces the score. If the server wins the next point, he would say “advantage server.” If he wins the following point, he wins the game. If he fails, the score returns to deuce and the game goes to the first player who can win consecutive points.

Long Tennis Game

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 Long Tennis

Real Tennis is the king of all racquet sports, a game where subtlety and thought are more prized than power and fitness. It is played in an asymmetrical court which contains many unusual features, sloping roofs, openings (galleries) in the walls and a main wall which has a kink in it (tambour) so the ball on hitting the sloping face moves across the court instead of continuing down the line of the main wall. It has the classic elements of warfare where a failed attack is punished by a counter-attack.

The game is played with racquets made of wood, of reasonable dimensions (not those over-sized snow shoes favoured by lawn tennis players), and with hand-made balls re-covered every week with new cloth. The ball can be given spin either by the player or by contact with the wall and the action of this spin can be even more deadly than Shane Warne; reading the spin is an important part of the game; initially one is totally bewildered by the spin but soon one begins to judge where the ball will move after contact.

Service is from one side of the court and there are about a dozen different types of serve and each has a few variations....

The scoring is intricate but not complicated. Games and sets are scored as in lawn tennis (lawn tennis, a comparative new comer, took its scoring system from tennis) but the unusual feature of tennis is the chase. A chase is a point held in abeyance and occurs when a ball bounces twice without being struck or enters some of the galleries (but there are three openings wherein the entry of the ball wins the stroke not a chase). The chase is recorded, e.g. chase better than four means that the second bounce of the ball was nearer than four yards from the back wall. However no stroke is scored. There are lines on the floor to help measure the chase. If one chase is laid and the score is within one point of game or if two chases have been laid, the players change sides (and service) and the other player has to ensure that the second bounce of his or her return is nearer the back wall than the chase(s) marked. The opponent may leave any ball that seems to fall further from the back wall than the chase marked and so win the point. And there are some wonderfully esoteric chases, e.g. more than a yard worse than or hazard one and two, which exist just to keep one's brain ticking over.

Some hand--eye coordination and physical mobility is essential but it does not require the sort of fitness and agility required by squash in order to enjoy the game. The game can be enjoyed at many skill levels and a system of handicapping has been devised in order to make games competitive between players of different ability. Age is no barrier and many octogenarians play the game, and to a good standard.