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| The stroke used to return a ball directed toward the racquet side of a player |
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| The resulting swing from a ball hit to the player's non-racquet side of the body |
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| a forehand or backhand stroke after the ball has bounced |
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| striking the ball before t bounces |
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| method of starting the ball in play |
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a ball served so well that the receiver has no chance to return it. (The receiver doesn't touch the ball) |
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| to win one's service game |
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| a topspin-like serve of great spin that bounces high and a little sideways away fron the direction of its ball flight. Sometimes referred to as a "kick serve" |
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| a serve that has mostly sidespin (slang for this is "the swinger") |
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| Flat Serve (or Cannonball -old term) |
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| a hard, fast serve that has little spin |
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| (shot) hitting a shot withthe intent to follow it to the net |
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| A groundstroke hit softly with undersping so as to bounce near the net and stop |
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| the same as a drop shot, except the ball does not bounce before being struck |
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| A ball hit immediately after it has bounced |
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| A high, arcing ball designed to clear the net by over ten feet and land in the backcourt near baseline. It can be defensive in buying time or trying to force the net man back, or offensive in trying to get the ball quickly over the net man's haed outright or forcing error. |
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| a volley (not letting the ball bounce, before striking it) that is hit up so as to arc over the opponent at net |
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| the aggresive servicelike motion used in responding to an opponent's lob (sometimes referred to as smash or overhead) |
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| A ball hit past the net man's reach either down the line or crosscourt |
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| a backwards spin away from the net, from the bottom to top, caused by the racquet head striking the ball in a high-to-low movement. The ball rises as it moves through the air and bounces short. |
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| a forward spin toward the net, from top to bottom, caused by the racquet head striking the ball in a low-to-high movement. This ball first moves upward - owing to the low-to-high hit - but drops at the end of its flight and bounces long due to its spin |
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| ball spins on its vertical axis; created by striking sliding across the ball |
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| a shot that travels with little spin and typically little arc |
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| a backspin groundstroke hit by a racquet traveling fron a high to low position. Slice serve references the server putting sidespin on the serve, which causes the ball flight for a right-handed server to curve the receiver's left to right and consequently bounce further right |
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| the arcing path of the ball. The need to clear the net makes tennis game of arc. the selection of various types of ball trajectories is important to successful play. |
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