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Ace (tennis)
In tennis, an ace is a legal serve that is not touched by the receiver, winning the point.
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Andre Agassi
Andre Kirk Agassi (born April 29, 1970) is an American retired professional tennis player and former world No. 1 who was one of the sport's most dominant players from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s.
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Association of Tennis Professionals
The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) was formed in September 1972 by Donald Dell, Bob Briner, Jack Kramer, and Cliff Drysdale to protect the interests of male professional tennis players.
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ATP Challenger Tour
The ATP Challenger Tour, known until the end of 2008 as the ATP Challenger Series, is a series of international men's professional tennis tournaments.
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ATP Finals
The ATP Finals is the second highest tier of men's tennis tournament after the four Grand Slam tournaments.
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Australian Open
The Australian Open is a tennis tournament held annually over the last fortnight of January in Melbourne, Australia.
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Backhand
The backhand is a tennis shot in which one swings the racquet around one's body with the back of the hand preceding the palm.
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Backspin
In racquet sports and golf, backspin (also known in racket sports as slice or underspin), is a shot such that the ball rotates backwards (as though rolling back towards the player) after it is hit.
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Bagel
A bagel (בײגל; bajgiel), also spelled beigel, is a bread product originating in the Jewish communities of Poland.
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Bagel (tennis)
In tennis, a bagel is a term denoting a situation when the set ends with a score of 6–0.
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Ball boy
Ball boys and ball girls are individuals, usually youths, who retrieve and supply balls for players or officials in sports such as association football (soccer), American football, bandy, cricket, tennis, baseball, and basketball.
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Brick
A brick is building material used to make walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction.
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British Newspaper Archive
The British Newspaper Archive web site provides access to searchable digitised archives of British newspapers.
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Bud Collins
Arthur Worth "Bud" Collins Jr. (June 17, 1929 – March 4, 2016) was an American journalist and television sportscaster, best known for his tennis commentary.
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Bye (sports)
A bye in sports (and certain other competitions), refers to organizers scheduling a competitor to not participate in a given round of competition, due to one of several circumstances.
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Carpet court
A carpet court is a type of tennis court.
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Catgut
Catgut is a type of cord that is prepared from the natural fibre found in the walls of animal intestines.
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Clay
Clay is a finely-grained natural rock or soil material that combines one or more clay minerals with possible traces of quartz (SiO2), metal oxides (Al2O3, MgO etc.) and organic matter.
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Clay court
A clay court is one of many different types of tennis court.
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Cyclops (computer system)
Cyclops is a computer system co-invented by the British inventor Bill Carlton of Great Britain and Margaret Parnis England of Malta, which is used on the ATP and WTA professional tennis tours as an electronic line judge to help determine whether a serve is in or out.
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Davis Cup
The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis.
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Dead rubber
Dead rubber is a term used in sporting parlance to describe a match in a series where the series result has already been decided by earlier matches.
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Drop shot
A drop shot is a shot in some racquet sports in which the ball (or birdie) is hit relatively softly, and lands just over and close to the net.
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False positives and false negatives
In medical testing, and more generally in binary classification, a false positive is an error in data reporting in which a test result improperly indicates presence of a condition, such as a disease (the result is positive), when in reality it is not present, while a false negative is an error in which a test result improperly indicates no presence of a condition (the result is negative), when in reality it is present.
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Fed Cup
Fed Cup is the premier international team competition in women's tennis, launched in 1963 to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the International Tennis Federation (ITF).
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Flat (tennis)
A flat shot in tennis is made by striking the ball at a neutral level.
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Forehand
The forehand in tennis and other racket sports such as table tennis, squash and badminton is a shot made by swinging the racket across one's body with the hand moving palm-first.
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French Open
The French Open (Championnats Internationaux de France de Tennis), officially called Roland-Garros, is a major tennis tournament held over two weeks between late May and early June at the Stade Roland-Garros in Paris, France.
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Glossary
A glossary, also known as a vocabulary or clavis, is an alphabetical list of terms in a particular domain of knowledge with the definitions for those terms.
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Golden Bagel Award
The Golden Bagel Award was an award established in 2004 and awarded until 2013 that honored the professional male tennis player who has handed out more bagels, than any other player on the circuit.
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Golden set
In tennis, a golden set is a set which is won without dropping a single point.
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Grand Prix tennis circuit
The Grand Prix tennis circuit was a professional tennis tour for male players that existed from 1970 to 1989.
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Grand Slam (tennis)
The Grand Slam tournaments, also called majors, are the four most important annual tennis events.
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Grass court
A grass court is one of the four different types of tennis court on which the sport of tennis, originally known as "lawn tennis", is played.
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Grip (tennis)
In tennis, a grip is a way of holding the racquet in order to hit shots during a match.
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Groundstroke
A groundstroke or ground stroke in tennis is a forehand or backhand shot that is executed after the ball bounces once on the court.
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Grunting in tennis
Grunting in tennis is the very loud noise, sometimes described as "shrieking" or "screaming", made by some players while hitting their shots.
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Guillermo Vilas
Guillermo Vilas (born 17 August 1952) is a retired professional tennis player from Argentina, No.
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Half volley
A half volley in tennis is a shot that is hit immediately after the ball bounces but before it reaches the apex of its bounce.
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Hawk-Eye
Hawk-Eye is a computer system used in numerous sports such as cricket, tennis, Gaelic football, badminton, hurling, Rugby Union, association football and volleyball, to visually track the trajectory of the ball and display a profile of its statistically most likely path as a moving image.
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Homophone
A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same (to varying extent) as another word but differs in meaning.
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International Tennis Federation
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) is the governing body of world tennis, wheelchair tennis, and beach tennis.
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International Tennis Hall of Fame
The International Tennis Hall of Fame is located in Newport, Rhode Island, United States.
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ITF Men's Circuit
The ITF Men's Circuit is a series of professional tennis tournaments held around the world that are organized by the International Tennis Federation.
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Jimmy Van Alen
James Henry Van Alen II (September 19, 1902 – July 3, 1991) was an American tennis official.
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John McEnroe
John Patrick McEnroe Jr. (born February 16, 1959 in Wiesbaden, West Germany) is a retired American tennis player, often considered among the greatest in the history of the sport.
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Lindsay Davenport
Lindsay Ann Davenport Leach (born June 8, 1976) is an American former professional tennis player.
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Line call
In sports, a line call occurs when there is doubt as to whether a specific and significant event took place, for example, whether the ball in tennis touched the line rather than landing outside the court.
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Lob (tennis)
A lob in tennis (also called Great Horse, in Italian Cavallone) is hitting the ball high and deep into the opponent's court.
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MacCAM
MacCAM (often written as MacCam, Mac-Cam or Mac Cam) is a system of slow-motion cameras developed by FastCAM Replay LLC and DEL Imaging Systems LLC used during tennis matches to replay close or controversial line calls.
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Magnus effect
The Magnus effect is an observable phenomenon that is commonly associated with a spinning object that drags air faster around one side, creating a difference in pressure that moves it in the direction of the lower-pressure side.
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Maria Sharapova
Maria Yuryevna Sharapova (a; born April 19, 1987) is a Russian professional tennis player.
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Men's International Professional Tennis Council
The Men's International Professional Tennis Council (MIPTC), also called the Men's Tennis Council (MTC), was a governing body that administered the men's professional Grand Prix tennis circuit.
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Newport, Rhode Island
Newport is a seaside city on Aquidneck Island in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States.
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Nick Kyrgios
Nicholas Hilmy Kyrgios (born 27 April 1995) is an Australian professional tennis player who is currently ranked world no.
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Official (tennis)
In tennis, an official is a person who ensures that a match or tournament is conducted according to the International Tennis Federation Rules of Tennis and other competition regulations.
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Onomatopoeia
An onomatopoeia (from the Greek ὀνοματοποιία; ὄνομα for "name" and ποιέω for "I make", adjectival form: "onomatopoeic" or "onomatopoetic") is a word that phonetically imitates, resembles or suggests the sound that it describes.
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Point (tennis)
A point in tennis is the smallest subdivision of the match, the completion of which changes the score.
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Pusher (tennis)
In tennis, a pusher is a defensive player who "pushes" back any shot they can chase down, without deliberately hitting a winner.
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Racket (sports equipment)
A racket or racquet is a sports implement consisting of a handled frame with an open hoop across which a network of strings or catgut is stretched tightly.
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Rafael Nadal
Rafael Nadal Parera (born 3 June 1986) is a Spanish professional tennis player, currently world No. 1 in men's singles tennis by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).
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Rally (tennis)
A rally in tennis is a collective name given to a sequence of back and forth shots between players, within a point.
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Real tennis
Real tennis – one of several games sometimes called "the sport of kings" – is the original racquet sport from which the modern game of tennis (originally called "lawn tennis") is derived.
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Retronym
A retronym is a newer name for an existing thing that differentiates the original form or version from a more recent one.
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Rock (geology)
Rock or stone is a natural substance, a solid aggregate of one or more minerals or mineraloids.
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Roger Federer
Roger Federer (born 8 August 1981) is a Swiss professional tennis player who is currently ranked world No.
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Round-robin tournament
A round-robin tournament (or all-play-all tournament) is a competition in which each contestant meets all other contestants in turn.
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Serena Williams
Serena Jameka Williams (born September 26, 1981) is an American professional tennis player.
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Serve (tennis)
A serve (or, more formally, a service) in tennis is a shot to start a point.
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Serve and volley
Serve and volley is a style of play in tennis where the player serving moves quickly towards the net after hitting a serve.
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Shale
Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock composed of mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite.
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Single-elimination tournament
A single-elimination, knockout, or sudden death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament.
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Smash (tennis)
A smash in tennis is a shot that is hit above the hitter's head with a serve-like motion.
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Steffi Graf
Stefanie Maria "Steffi" Graf (born 14 June 1969) is a German former professional tennis player.
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Strings (tennis)
In tennis, the strings are the part of a tennis racquet which make contact with the ball.
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Tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that can be played individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles).
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Tennis at the Summer Olympics
Tennis was part of the Summer Olympic Games program from the inaugural 1896 Summer Olympics, but was dropped after the 1924 Summer Olympics due to disputes between the International Lawn Tennis Federation and the International Olympic Committee over allowing amateur players to compete.
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Tennis ball
A tennis ball is a ball designed for the sport of tennis.
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Tennis court
A tennis court is the venue where the sport of tennis is played.
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Tennis elbow
Tennis elbow, also known as lateral epicondylitis, is a condition in which the outer part of the elbow becomes painful and tender.
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Tennis scoring system
The tennis scoring system is a way to keep track of tennis matches and tournaments.
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Tennis shots
In tennis, there are a variety of types of shots (ways of hitting the ball) which can be categorized in various ways.
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Tennis strategy
Players use different tennis strategies to enhance their own strengths and exploit their opponent's weaknesses in order to gain the advantage and win more points.
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The Championships, Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon, commonly known simply as Wimbledon, is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, and is widely regarded as the most prestigious.
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Topspin
In ball sports, topspin is a property of a ball that rotates forwards as it is moving.
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Tweener (tennis)
The tweener or between-the-legs shot is a difficult tennis shot where a player hits the ball between his or her legs.
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Types of tennis match
Traditionally, tennis is played between two people in a singles match, or two pairs in a doubles match.
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United States Tennis Association
The United States Tennis Association (USTA) is the national governing body for tennis in the United States.
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US Open (tennis)
The United States Open Tennis Championships is a hard court tennis tournament.
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Volley (tennis)
A volley in tennis is a shot in which the ball is struck before it bounces on the ground.
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Walkover
A walkover, also W.O. or w/o (originally two words: "walk over") is the awarding of a victory to a contestant because there are no other contestants or the other contestants have been disqualified or have forfeited.
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Wear
Wear is the damaging, gradual removal or deformation of material at solid surfaces.
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Women's Tennis Association
The Women's Tennis Association (WTA), founded in 1973 by Billie Jean King, is the principal organising body of women's professional tennis.
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World Championship Tennis
World Championship Tennis (WCT) was a tour for professional male tennis players established in 1968 (the first players signed a contract at the end of 1967) and lasted until the emergence of the ATP Tour in 1990.
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WTA Finals
The WTA Finals (formerly known as the WTA Tour Championships short: WTA Championships), is a professional tennis tournament played annually at the end of the season for the top-ranked players on the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) tour.
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References
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