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Serving.

Serving technique in tennis covers grip mechanics, racquet positioning, and footwork that separate power serves from control placements reviewed here.

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Rules ·5 min · June 2026

The Foot Fault: The Tennis Rule Nobody Calls and Everybody Breaks

Watch a busy public court for an hour and you will see dozens of serves that break the same rule. Almost none get called.

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Rules ·4 min · June 2026

The Foot Fault Is the Most-Broken and Least-Called Rule in Tennis

Here is a claim we will spend the rest of this piece earning the right to make: the foot fault is the most frequently broken rule in tennis and one of the least frequently enforced.