Anya K.

Excerpt from All About Tennis

In tennis there are a lot of rules. When you start a tennis game you have to serve, or hit the ball. You get two chances to serve. Your serve has to land in the service box that your opponent is the closest to and your serve has to be in or on the lines. If your first serve is out of the box or out of the lines you still have your second serve. If your second serve is out, then you lose the point. There is a special word if you get both serves out. It is called a double fault. If you were playing out a point and your shot goes out the lines person shouts, “out” and holds up their “pointer” finger to indicate the call. Otherwise, you would think the point was still going on. The scoring for tennis is pretty complicated. The score goes, love, which means zero in tennis, then 15, 30, 40. If you get to 40/40, which is also called deuce, whoever scores the next point gets a score called advantage. When it is advantage on T.V., the scoreboard says AD for the person who won the the last point. The person who lost the last point, there sign on the scoreboard looks like a dash. If the person who one the deuce but lost the advantage, they make the point go back to deuce. “After I play a tennis match, if I lose, I immediately go on the practice courts and practice whatever I think I did wrong that made me lose the game,” number one female tennis player in the world Serena Williams says.