Video: Tennis Basics: Court Position

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Return to the center of the tennis court after every shot. Learn what the tennis court lines signify in this free tennis lesson from a tennis instructor.

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charliez83 Aug 02, 2008
not enough explanation. First of all, the 'right' side is called the Deuce court, the left is call the Ad court. And another thing when you serve, you serve from outside of the baseline, and not touch the line. And you must serve first from the Deuce side, to the Deuce side over the net. You serve DIAGONALLY. And it must land in the small box, called the Service box. Otherwise it's out.
charliez83 Aug 02, 2008
not enough explanation. First of all, the 'right' side is called the Deuce court, the left is call the Ad court. And another thing when you serve, you serve from outside of the baseline, and not touch the line. And you must serve first from the Deuce side, to the Deuce side over the net. You serve DIAGONALLY. And it must land in the small box, called the Service box. Otherwise it's out.

Video Transcript

We're going to be talking about court position. In tennis the ball has to go first over the net, which is your first challenge and second the ball has to land in the court. Basically, in the court would be the dark area of the court, the dark green inside the white lines. Outside would be everything else. Depending what we're doing, like if we're doing a serve, we're playing singles or doubles we're going to have different lines that we're going to be talking about. The main line is the base line as the name says. I'm standing on it right now. You want to stay on the center of the court which is where the small T is. You basically want to recover the center of the court after you hit every shot. Then you have your service line. That is where Tracy is standing. She is standing on the right side of the court. The other side is going to be the left side of the court. Then we have single lines. Single lines is when you’re playing one person against another person, the ball has to go inside this area and then inside the base line all the way to the second single court, single line. Then we have double lines, which are the ones that Tracy is pointing on the right side of the area and then it's going to all the way up to the base line and then it's going to go until the end of the white line. Double lines are used when four people are playing; two against two on each side. This is basically what the court boundaries are about.

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Tennis Basics: Court Position

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