Tennis

A brief introduction

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 Tennis
• Real tennis was the former sport that gave
birth to modern Tennis that we know as Lawn
Tennis

Real tennis: the sport of kings Modern Lawn tennis

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 Tennis – Lawn Tennis
The modern game of
tennis originated
in Birmingham,
England in the late
19th century as lawn
tennis.

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 Tennis – Court
• Tennis is played on a rectangular, flat surface. The court is
78 feet (23.77 m) long, and 27 feet (8.2 m) wide for singles
matches and 36 ft (11 m) for doubles matches.

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 Tennis – Court
• Net:
• The net is 3 feet 6 inches (1.07 m) high at the posts and 3 feet
(0.91 m) high in the center.

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 Tennis

• Service:
If two
consecutive
services goes
wrong then a
Point is given
to the
receiver, the
other player.

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 Tennis - Scoring
The servers score is always announced first the entire game with
tennis terminology voiced in a manner unique to tennis.

– Points Earned 0 = 0 Games Points or 'Love'

– Points Earned 1 = 15 Game Points
– Points Earned 2 = 30 Game Points
– Points Earned 3 = 40 Game Points
– Points Earned 4 = Game Over (2 Point Advantage
Required)

• The winner of a tennis game must win with a two point

advantage.

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 Tennis - Scoring
• Every Player need to score minimum 40 game
points/Score initially to win a game.

Player A Player B
Points Game Score Points Game Score
0 0 0 0
1 15 0 0
2 30 0 0
3 40 1 15

Difference is of 2 points
But A has just scored the minimum required score
of 40. So, he need to make at least one more point.
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 Tennis - Scoring
• Every Player need to score minimum 40 game
points/Score initially to win a game.
Player A Player B
Points Game Score Points Game Score

0 0 0 0

This time Player B 1 15 0 0

has scored 2 30 0 0
another point and 3 40 1 15
got the score of 3 40 2 30
30.
A still needs to
make another
point, a game
point!
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 Tennis - Scoring
• Every Player need to score minimum 40 game
points/Score initially to win a game.
Player A Player B
Points Game Score Points Game Score

0 0 0 0
1 15 0 0
2 30 0 0
3 40 1 15

Now, when the 3 40 2 30

Player A has 4 Game over 2 30
scored another
point, A wins the
game.
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 Tennis - Scoring
• Every Player need to score minimum 40 game
points/Score initially to win a game.
Player A Player B
Points Game Score Points Game Score

Now, when both the
players has scored 40,
such a situation is called
DUCE and now whoever
first scores two
continuous points, will
win the game.
0 0 0 0
1 15 0 0
2 30 0 0
3 40 1 15
3 40 2 30
3 40 3 40
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 Tennis - Scoring
• Every Player need to score minimum 40 game points/Score initially to win
a game.
Server Receiver
Player A Player B
Points Game Score Points Game Score

0 0 0 0
1 15 0 0
2 30 0 0
3 40 1 15
3 40 2 30
3 40 3 40
4 Ad in 3 40
A wins the game 5 Ad in 3 40
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 Tennis - Scoring
• Every Player need to score minimum 40 game points/Score initially to win
a game.
Server Receiver
Player A Player B
Points Game Score Points Game Score

0 0 0 0
1 15 0 0
2 30 0 0
3 40 1 15
3 40 2 30
3 40 3 40
3 40 4 Ad out
B wins the game 3 40 5 Ad out
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 Tennis - Scoring
• Every Player need to score minimum 40 game points/Score initially to win
a game.
Server Receiver
Player A Player B
Points Game Score Points Game Score

0 0 0 0
1 15 0 0
2 30 0 0
3 40 1 15
3 40 2 30
3 40 3 40
3 40 4 Ad out
Nobody wins, the game
4 Ad in 4 -
gets back to DUCE
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 Tennis - Scoring
• Every Player need to score minimum 40 game points/Score initially to win
a game.
Server Receiver
Player A Player B
Points Game Score Points Game Score

0 0 0 0
1 15 0 0
2 30 0 0
3 40 1 15
3 40 2 30

back to DUCE 3 40 3 40

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 Tennis - Scoring

Break point: Only when the receiver is ahead the server.

Server Receiver
Player A Player B
Case-1 30 40 Single Break point
Case-2 15 40 Double break point
Case-3 0 40 Triple break point

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 Tennis - Scoring
Set:
A tennis set is determined when a competitor has won
a minimum of six games with at least a two game
advantage over his or her opponent.

The potential score outcome for a set could be;

6-4, 6-3, 6-2, 6-1, or 6-0.

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 Tennis - Scoring
Set:
Keep in mind that a tennis competitor can only close
out a set when leading by two or more games.

As a result, Score of 6-5 doesn’t decide the winner and

the game continues until…
a final score such as 7-5 or 8-6 is achieved by one of
the tennis competitors.

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 Tennis - Scoring
Match:
• The structure of a tennis match is deliberately
designed with an odd number of sets to ensure a
winner emerges at the end of the match.

• Typically, tennis competitors play the best 2 out of 3

sets to determine a winner of a match. The potential
outcome could end up in a final score of 2-0 or 2-1
for the winner of a match.

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 Tennis - Scoring
Match:
• Men's professional tennis competitors play the best
3 out of 5 sets

• In Grand Slam tournaments such as the Australian

Open, the French Open, Wimbledon or the U.S.
Open. The potential outcome could end up in a final
score of 3-0, 3-1 or 3-2 for the winner in this type of
match

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 Tournaments
Grand Slams
Tournament Month City Country, Continent Surface Established
Australian Open January Melbourne Australia, Oceania Hard 1905
French Open May-June Paris France, Europe Clay 1891
Wimbledon June-July London United Kingdom, Grass 1877
Europe
US Open August- New-York United States, North Hard 1881
September America

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 Tournaments
Team Cups

• Davis Cup (men)

• Fed Cup (women)
• Hopman Cup (men/women)
• Laver Cup (men)

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 Tournaments
Team Cups
Davis Cup (for Men)
Founded 1900, 119 Years ago
Founder Dwight F. Davis
No. of Teams 18
Countries International Tennis Federation member nations
Continent Worldwide
Most recent champion Croatia, Europe (2nd title)
Most titles USA

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 Tournaments
Team Cups
Fed Cup (for Women)
Founded 1963, 56 Years ago
Founder
No. of Teams 8 (World group), 99 total (2016)
Countries International Tennis Federation member nations
Continent Worldwide
Most recent champion Czech Republic (11th title)
Most titles USA

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 Tournaments
Team Cups
Hopman Cup (for Women and Men)
Founded 1989, 30 Years ago
Claim to fame Named in honour of Harry Hopman, an Australian Tennis
player and coach
No. of Teams 8 Teams
Competitors International Tennis Federation member nations
Countries, venues Australia, Burswood and Perth
Continent Worldwide
Most recent champion Switzerland (4th title)
Most titles USA

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 Tournaments
Team Cups
Hopman Cup (for Men)
Founded 2017, 2 Years ago
Claim to fame Named in honour of Harry Hopman, an Australian Tennis
player and coach
No. of Teams 2 Teams
Countries, venues Australia, Burswood and Perth
Continent Europe, Worldwide city rotation
Most recent champion Switzerland (4th title)
Most titles USA

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 Recent Grand Slam Winners
Wimbledon 2018 Winners
Men’s Single Novak Djokovic (Serbia)

Women’s Single Angilique Kerber (Germany)

Men’s Double Marcelo Melo (Brazil)

Lukasz Kubot (Poland)

Women’s Barbora Krejcikova (Czech Republic)

Double Katerina Siniakova (Czech republic)

Mixed Double Nicola Melichar (United States)

Alexander Peya (Austria)
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