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The left side of a tennis court is called the "ad court," but the name has almost nothing to do with the side itself.
Walk onto any public court and within ten minutes someone will tell you the rule of thumb: the ad court is on the left, the deuce court is on the right.
The first tennis drills for beginners should not involve hitting a tennis ball with the strings. That is the claim, and we mean it literally: for the first thirty to forty-five minutes a new player…
The first point of a tennis game is called 15. Not one. Not first. Fifteen. A player who has won exactly one point in the current game has a score of 15, and if you have never watched tennis before…
Here is a claim a lot of well-meaning parents have heard, sometimes from a club pro, sometimes from a YouTube video: teach the Eastern forehand grip and the full swing first, and the rest follows.
A father sat next to me at a 12-and-under tournament last spring, leaned over, and asked what "thirty-fifteen" meant. His daughter was serving. The scoreboard had just flipped.