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American service backhand drive Baddeley base-line Beals Wright beginning bisque Bowden Bros BROOKES AUSTRALIA centre challenge round champion championship Collins committee competitors contest covered court Davis Cup Décugis France Dwight England Club English Ernest Renshaw feet first-class follow-through forehand drive Frank Riseley Gore grass ground H. L. Doherty hand handicap hard Hillyard hit the ball Holcombe Ward ladies Larned Lawford Lawn Tennis Association lawn tennis player less Mahony match Max Décugis meeting method Miss Sutton mixed double N. E. BROOKES never Norman Brookes odds opponent partner Photograph by Messrs play position practice prize R. F. DOHERTY ENGLAND racket real tennis referee result Riseley S. H. Smith score served server shoulder side side-line single smash spectators spin Striker-out stroke swerve turf TWIST SERVICE umpire volley volleyer Wilfred Baddeley William Renshaw Wimbledon wrist
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Page 311 - Side Line of the Court, which is diagonally opposite to that from which it was served, or upon any such line.
Page 305 - ... base-lines, the extremities of which are connected by the side-lines. Half-way between the side-lines, and parallel with them, is drawn the half -court-line, dividing the space on each side of the net into two equal parts called the right and left courts. On each side of the net, at a distance of 21 feet from it and parallel with it, are drawn the service-lines.
Page 305 - The court is 78 feet long and 27 feet wide. It is divided across the middle by a net, the ends of which are attached to two posts, A and B, standing 3 feet outside of the court on either side.
Page 311 - If a player serve out of his turn the umpire, as soon as the mistake is discovered, shall direct the player to serve who ought to have served. But all strokes scored before s'uch discovery shall be counted. If a game shall have been completed before such discovery, then the service in the next alternate game shall be delivered by the player who did not serve out of his turn, and so on in regular rotation.
Page 311 - ... decide similarly for the second game. The partner of the player who served in the first game shall serve in the third ; and the partner of the player who served in the second game shall serve in the fourth, and so on in the same order in all the subsequent games of a set, or series of sets.
Page 305 - The choice of sides, and the right to serve in the first game, shall be decided by toss; provided that, if the winner of the toss choose the right to serve, the other player shall have...
Page 180 - The draw shall be conducted in the following manner : Each competitor's name shall be written on a separate card or paper, and these shall be placed in a bowl or hat, drawn out one by one at random, and copied on a list in the order in which they have been drawn.
Page 305 - At the end of the first game the striker-out shall become server, and the server shall become striker-out ; and so on alternately in the subsequent games of the set.
Page 305 - In matches where an umpire is appointed, his decision shall be final; but where a referee is appointed, an appeal shall lie to him from the decision of an umpire on a question of law, and in all such cases the decision of the referee shall be final.
Page 318 - Championship shall hereinafter be termed "The Champion Nation." 3. The Competition shall take place in accordance with the following Regulations, and, except in so far as may be agreed upon by the competing Nations for their own Tie, with the Laws and Regulations of the game for the time being sanctioned by the Champion Nation. 4. The management of the Competition shall be entrusted to a Committee, hereafter termed "the Committee of Management," which shall be appointed annually by the Lawn Tennis...