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What changes the result

The rules behind the moments commentators get excited about. They build on the beginner rules.

I · Intermediate · 8 rules · Step 2 of 4

How do you score and win?

  1. What are no-ad scoring and the match tie-break?The rules approve shorter formats that an event may choose.

Serving

  1. What happens when a serve hits the net?If the serve touches the net and still lands in the correct service box, it is a let and that serve is taken again.
  2. Who serves when in tennis, and when do players change ends?A toss decides who serves the first game and from which end.

How is a point won or lost?

  1. Can the ball touch the net or go round the net post and still be good?Yes to both.
  2. Can you touch the net in tennis?Not while the ball is in play.

Time, coaching, officials and line calls

  1. How long do tennis players get between points?Play is continuous.
  2. Who makes the decisions in a tennis match?The chair umpire is the final authority on questions of fact in a match, such as whether a ball was in.
  3. How do challenges work in tennis?Where an electronic review system is used, a player may challenge a line call on a shot that ends the point, or by stopping play at once.
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