What happens when your racquet crosses the net? Can you still win a point if a ball grazes your partner on the way over? Email it to the Final Word at officiating usta. Know a player who exemplifies good sportsmanship?
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Professional players learn to use many different shots, including the serve, forehand, backhand, volley, half-volley, overhead smash, drop shot, and lob. They also learn how to put spin on their shots to make them more difficult to return, and learn how to use tactics to win, such as by playing to their opponent's weaknesses. Every year hundreds of tournaments are held for professional players. The greatest challenge in tennis is to win all four Grand Slam tournaments in one year.
In men's singles this has only ever been done by two players; Don Budge and Rod Laver and Born in in Rockhampton, Australia, Rod Laver is said by many tennis historians to be the greatest player of all time. He is the only player to have won the men's singles Grand Slam two times.
He was very fast around the court, and very accurate with his play. He was also a very clever player, and often won matches by outwitting his opponents tactically.
Steffi Graf was born in Mannheim, Germany in , and is one of the greatest female tennis players of all time. She won singles titles, including 22 Grand Slam singles titles. I would venture to guess that every competitive tennis player has experienced a similar situation.
Unknown to most fans and adult players, junior tennis is rife with cheating. Sometimes I am even predisposed to doubt the trustworthiness of my opponents. We need to seek ways to reform the sport and restore trust. Playing tennis in both France and America has exposed me to the different systems—both very much imperfect—put in place to prevent cheating.
In the U. Similarly, if a player switches the score, an umpire will simply require that the two players go back to the last agreed upon score. One time I closed out a game, winning three straight points after being down on my serve. Smirking, my opponent claimed that the score was deuce. I called over an umpire and we had to walk him through the sequence of the previous points, one at a time.
But the other girl lied and said that she had won the point at , which would then justify her false claim that it was deuce. The umpire told us that we had to replay the game starting from the score Other players sometimes find especially creative ways to cheat.
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