Talk:Glossary of tennis terms

message: I want to add a new term - 'Donut' for 6 - 0. However I don't have a good book reference to use. Is it OK to reference a reputable website instead?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Paulbirch99 (talk • contribs) 07:49, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I did so. Maybe it could be edited; I'm not feeling very eloquent today. -- Mikeblas 23:12, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
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message: Shouldn't all of these be moved to the Wictionary, BTW? -- Mikeblas 23:17, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  wictionary 

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message: I know nothing about tennis and am in the midst of reading David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. Just quickly glancing over this list of tennis terms has made a number of things from that book much clearer to me. Thank you to the contributors who put this together! -Zefryl (talk) 21:43, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  helpful article! 

message: I don't think there needs to be two definitions. I think they can be merged, and I think the definition is broader than them both. For example, right now (September 4, 2010) at the US Open, it is very windy, and a napkin flew across the court during the match between Sharapova and Capra. The chair umpire called a let, because it would have been a distraction to either player, and they replayed the point.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vercillo (talk • contribs) 17:46, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
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message: It isn't clear from this glossary (nor from the respective articles) exactly what the difference is (if any) between a half-volley and a groundstroke. It would be good to clarify this. 86.181.201.14 (talk) 01:51, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Difference between half-volley and groundstroke 

message: I have, I thought, seen a "flat" shot explained by commentators as being one that goes low over the net (i.e. has a flat trajectory). This glossary says it is a shot with no spin. I am confused in my mind about which is the primary meaning. Are shots with no spin are called "flat" because they have a flat trajectory? Are there other types of shot (e.g. hit very hard) that also have a flat trajectory and hence can be called "flat"? Are there two different meanings of "flat" here that can overlap, or just one meaning? 81.159.111.3 (talk) 19:15, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  flat 

message: ace: Serve where the tennis ball is served in and not touched by the receiver. Aces are usually powerful and generally land on or near one of the corners at the back of the service box
*Should we or not add "or when the receiver touches it but cannot return it over the net"?...cause Ive seen several cases like THAT called an ace on American television, at least. I don't know, maybe someone can clarify this for me wether we should or shouldn't. Antonio Ace Ventura Martin dimelo por aca 10:15, 13 December, 2012 (UTC)
**That is technically not an ace but should be categorized as an 'unreturned serve'. An ace is only an ace when it is not touched by the receiver.--Wolbo (talk) 10:35, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  ACE!! 

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message: I've added the following new terms to this glossary, found mostly in Wiktionary's tennis category wikt:Category:en:Tennis:
all-courter, ad in, ad out, American doubles, ATP Tour, Australian doubles, backboard, ball machine, banana shot, Billie Jean King Cup, Canadian doubles, chair umpire, Champions tiebreak, claycourter, cut-throat tennis, double break point, double break, double-handed backhand, doubles net, drive, game, set, match, grasscourter, hardcourter, Hawk-Eye Live, junkballer, long, love game, masters, one-handed backhand, order of play, point penalty, pull the trigger, run around the ball, serve-and-volleyer, serve out, shallow, single-handed backhand, singles net, skyhook, stringbed, two-handed bachand, wood shot, wrong-foot, WTA Tour.
Please review and improve these new definitions, and remove those that aren't helpful. Letcord (talk) 00:52, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  New terms 

message: I wanted to proactively apologize for my overly-strident and technically-incorrect edit summary,
:(→‎L: ‪usage quibble: there’s no such thing as an “infinite number”; it’s an “unlimited number”)
for .
Yet I still stand by the edit itself.
If you’re into higher math, you may know there are such things as infinite numbers (a.k.a. transfinite numbers). But they’re abstract concepts in the branch of mathematics called set theory; in a real-world, counting usage—such as the number of serves in a tennis match—a count cannot be infinite. So unlimited is the better word choice here.
(To get into really pedantic semantics, the word arbitrary is most correct in a mathematical sense, because there are limits on the serve count: the heat death of the universe, the lifespan of the player, or—rather more likely—the player’s physiology or patience. But the word arbitrary’s mathematical sense is even further-divorced from its everyday meaning than the words infinite and unlimited.) TreyHarris (talk) 19:12, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  “Infinite numbers”