Tennis Rules

Tennis is a game that is played by the rules. It has always been played by the same rules and it will continue to be played by the same rules for hundreds of years. The one rule that was changed in the 1970s was adding the tiebreaker to set and before that it was always the same and it continues to be essentially the same game. Four points to a game, six games to a set, three sets to a victory. In very rudimentary terms those are the rules of tennis; for that is the way you win in a game of tennis. Of course you're not just hitting the ball and no one and your opponent has a certain stake in making sure that you don't ever achieve that level of simplicity.

The rules of tennis else wise are fairly straightforward. One person serves the ball and one person receives; in professional tennis there is still a coin toss at the beginning to determine who gets to choose to serve or receive; in many circles, people with the Wilson Brand tennis racket will let the racket fall and whatever side the W at the end ends on is the requisite “head” or “tail.” However professional tennis it is still the coin toss.

Once you decide who is serving and who is receiving there are very few rules to follow. You need to serve the ball within the service box and the serve cannot hit the net or the serve is void. If the serve hits the net and falls within the service box van the serve is allowed to be done over, if the surface the ball and falls outside of the service box and that is your first serve and you only get to serves to get inside of the service box or else you lose the point.

After the serve has gone over and has landed within the service box, tennis rules open up very much. You have lines on the outside of the court in line to the back of the court that you have to hit the ball within. You can't let the ball bounce more than once or whoever's side that the ball was on will lose the point. Then you just playing for points. Tennis rules dictate that whoever gets to that fourth point; 15, 30, 40, game; wins the game.

The official rules for tennis are fairly straightforward and once you have watched the game for a little while and you'll get it very easily. However many people when they're playing at a public court or just in leisure will let the rules slide little bit just the plate again. This tennis after all is an athletic team and you want to be able to work up a sweat and have some good strokes against your foe. It's always a good idea for beginners to learn tennis rules as early as possible so that way everybody is playing on the same set of tennis rules and you can just get on with it and have fun playing the game.