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This glossary defines terms related to the sport of table tennis.. Alternation of ends After each game, players switch sides of the table. In the last possible game of a match, for example the seventh game in a best of seven matches, players change ends when the first player scores five points, regardless of whose turn it is to serve.
Table tennis is unique among racket sports in that it supports a wide variety of playing styles and methods of gripping the racket, at even the highest levels of play. This article describes some of the most common table tennis grips and playing styles seen in competitive play. The playing styles listed in this article are broad categories with ...
Goran Ivanišević prepares to serve in Wimbledon in 2004. Ivanišević is considered to have one of the greatest serves in tennis history. A flat shot in tennis is made by striking the ball at a neutral level. Unlike the backspin and topspin the ball is hit with a swipe at neutral level. This effect is created by driving through the ball to ...
Tommy Haas serving. A serve (or, more formally, a service) in tennis is a shot to start a point.A player will hit the ball with a racquet so it will fall into the diagonally opposite service box without being stopped by the net.
A serve (or, more formally, a service) in tennis is a shot to begin the point. The most common serve is used is an overhead serve.It is initiated by tossing the ball into the air over the server's head and hitting it when the arm is fully stretched out (usually near the apex of its trajectory) into the diagonally opposite service box without touching the net.
Diagram of a table tennis table showing the official dimensions. The table is 2.74 m (9.0 ft) long, 1.525 m (5.0 ft) wide, and 76 cm (2.5 ft) high with any continuous material so long as the table yields a uniform bounce of about 23 cm (9.1 in) when a standard ball is dropped onto it from a height of 30 cm (11.8 in), or about 77%.
On Sunday against the Kansas City Royals, Friedl had a three-hit game, including a double against a left-handed pitcher. “He swung the bat well today,” Reds manager David Bell said. “He ...
The topspin shot (also called a topspinner) is primarily used by racket sport players as either a "safe shot" or rally ball, or it can also be used to construct a point. . For example, a player may hit three topspin shots crosscourt, and then on the fourth shot hit a flat ball or a slice down the line to set him/herself up to win the po