LOB — A stroke that lifts the ball high in the air, usually over the head of the opponent at the net. NO-AD — A system of scoring a game in which the first player to win four points wins the game. If the score reaches 3-all, the next point decides the game.
OUT — A ball landing outside the boundary lines of the court. Also, the practice procedure in which players hit the ball back and forth to each other. Also known as the Returner. It is the act of putting the ball into play for each point. SET — A scoring unit awarded to a player who or team that has won: a 6 or more games and has a two-game lead; or b 6 games and the tiebreak game when played at 6-all.
SPIN — The rotation of the ball. Whoops, something went wrong. Profile update. Please update your profile. About To Expire Expired. Your Safe Play Approval has expired! Your Organization Admin is expired! Your Membership has expired! Please complete your account creation.
Share your location for a more tailored experience. LOG IN. 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. For instance, on a big point during a match played on red clay in Normandy, the girl I was playing called a ball out, erased the mark on the line with her foot, and made a new one next to it in the alley, in front of her parents and coach who casually looked the other way. And since players call their own lines, referees usually side with the person who makes the dubious call, even if the other player is able to point out the authentic mark.
Other sports—soccer, football, baseball and softball, basketball, hockey, lacrosse, field hockey, wrestling, boxing, and many more—all have umpires and referees present to make judgment calls and keep score. Beyond the Baseline Podcast: Tracy Austin. When relatives and friends who are unacquainted with junior tennis come to watch me play matches, they are often amazed by the cheating that constantly occurs in tournaments.
They express surprise at the lack of umpires there are usually only one or two who patrol anywhere from six to 15 courts at a time and at their inability to overrule effectively, given that they are responsible for watching so many courts. Of course, professional tennis players do not have to worry about dishonest line-calling, even though line judges and umpires can certainly make mistakes—just ask Serena Williams, who might have one more Grand Slam to her record if not for perhaps the most poorly-officiated match in professional tennis history.
But the four bad calls that Serena was subjected to in that match might even be considered a good day in the juniors. In a tight match, a key point or two can make all the difference. Without that umpire, I would be down , and I could very well have lost the match. These situations happen all the time in junior tennis. This can lead to a situation of mutual accusations and questioning of any out ball that is within a foot of the line. In my own experience, opponents have played out balls, overruled themselves, apologized for controversies that occurred during matches and accepted my own requests for reconciliation after arguments.
The truth is that it is extremely difficult to call the lines accurately at all times. Sometimes we want a ball to be out or in so badly that we see it land that way. A solution for shortening tennis matches: Disallow the bouncing ball. And although I realize that hiring referees to watch every match during a tournament would be costly and impractical, the sport needs to take measures to combat this cycle of dishonesty.
It might be possible to come up with inexpensive solutions that involve neutral parents, spectators, third party volunteers, or even other players. The technology is expensive and it may take time to spread to tennis clubs and tournaments, but it seems like a promising avenue for restoring faith and fairness.
There is no simple and perfect solution to eliminate the incessant temptation to cheat in junior tennis, but the first step is to recognize that this injustice is a serious problem.
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