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ITF Rules ·5 min · May 2026

Tennis Court Dimensions: What the 78-Foot Number Actually Measures

The number is 78 A regulation tennis court is 78 feet long, baseline to baseline. That single figure — 23.77 meters in the ITF's own units — is the anchor for almost every other tennis court dimension…

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Court Dimensions ·11 min · May 2026

Service Boxes and Tennis Court Dimensions: Where the Standard Advice Holds Up, and Where It Breaks

The common advice goes like this: a tennis service box is 21 feet long by 13.5 feet wide, and there are four of them, two per side, split by the centre service line. Coaches repeat it.

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Terminology ·5 min · May 2026

Tennis Serve Technique and the Ace: What Actually Separates an Unreturnable Serve From a Lucky One

Most recreational players have asked some version of this question after a club match: the flat serve down the T that froze the returner on Saturday looked, on video, almost identical to the one that…

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Forehand ·6 min · May 2026

Testing the Semi-Western Forehand Grip: What Actually Happens From Hand to Ball

There is a sentence that gets repeated in clinics, lesson bays, and the comment sections under every forehand video on the internet: "switch to a semi-western forehand grip and you'll finally get…

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Grips ·5 min · May 2026

Semi-Western Forehand Grip vs. Eastern: A Side-by-Side Test for Intermediate Players

Most intermediate players we coach have, at some point, drifted into a grip that is neither one thing nor the other — somewhere between an eastern and a semi-western, set by accident rather than…