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Basic line marking machines for turf were available by the late 1800s. [1]: 40 They were originally developed for use on lawn tennis courts.[1]: 40 One of the first such machines, a wheel-to-wheel paint transfer device, was developed by F.H. Ayres and "would be instantly recognizable by users of many of today's machines, which work on the same principle".
Center line – line dividing the two service boxes in the center of the court. Center mark – 12-inch mark at the halfway point of the baseline used to distinguish the right and left halves of a tennis court. Deuce court – right side of the receiving team, the left side of the opponent's court as viewed from the server's side, significant ...
Tennis hardcourt, Curtiss Park, Saline, Michigan A hardcourt (or hard court) is a surface or floor on which a sport is played, most usually in reference to tennis courts.It is typically made of rigid materials such as asphalt or concrete, and covered with acrylic resins to seal the surface and mark the playing lines, while providing some cushioning.
Cyclops is a computer system co-invented by Bill Carlton of Great Britain and Margaret Parnis England of Malta, [1] which is used on the ATP and WTA professional tennis tours as an electronic line judge to help determine whether a serve is in or out.
An electronic line judge is a device used in tennis to automatically detect where a ball has landed on the court. Attempts to revolutionize tennis officiating and the judging of calls in the sport began in the early 1970s and has resulted in the design, development and prototyping of several computerized, electronic line-judge devices.
A tennis court is the venue where the sport of tennis is played. It is a firm rectangular surface with a low net stretched across the centre. The same surface can be used to play both doubles and singles matches. A variety of surfaces can be used to create a tennis court, each with its own characteristics which affect the playing style of the game.
Line judge (tennis), an official in tennis to observe the passage of tennis balls over the boundary lines of the court Electronic line judge, an electronic system used in tennis to automatically detect where a ball has landed on the court; Line judge (gridiron football), an official in gridiron football responsible for the line of scrimmage and ...
The original multi-colored, no-line tennis court has eleven separate colored areas with no segregating lines. As a functional, no-line tennis court design it was issued a USPTO utility patent #4,045,022 in 1977 to its inventors, Geoffrey Grant, an avid and successful senior tennis competitor, and Robert Nicks, an engineer.