Hi, my name is Rob Fair. I'm a USPTA certified tennis pro. Today I'll be talking to you about the rules and regulations of tennis. In tennis, there's two different ways that you can play. There's doubles or singles. Doubles would be when two partners play two partners, and singles is one-on-one. And the match consists of sets and games. A set consists of the first person to when six games, winning by two, with a tiebreaker being played at six all. And the winner of a match is the first to win two out of three sets. The attire for tennis differs at every club and facility that you're playing at. One of the main recommendations for tennis is an all court purpose shoe, which is basically a non-marking outer sole, just so you don't mark up the courts and scuff up the paint job, especially on hard courts. The equipment needed for tennis is a tennis racket and balls, and then also a regulation court. The court's measurements for doubles is 36'x78', and for singles is 27 feet by 78 feet, and the net is three feet high in the middle. There's only a few different lines on the court. There's the doubles alleys which I mentioned earlier, which are used only for doubles. There's the service line, which marks off the service boxes where the serve has to land, and then there's the base line, which is the farthest line back on the court. The penalties in tennis are: there's the foot fault, which is when your foot has gone on or over the line before you've made contact with the serve. There's a double fault, which means that you have missed both of your chances to get your serve in. And then there's the let, and the let has two actual meanings. One is, you hit a serve that hit the net, and went in, which means that you get to repeat that serve and that serve only. The let also means any hindrance in play. So let's say you're playing and the people playing next to you hit a ball that rolls onto your court. You can call a let and you replay that point and that point only. I'm Rob Fair, and that's the rules and regulations of tennis.
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