Paddle Tennis Research Paper

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Paddle tennis is a game adapted from tennis and played for over a century. Compared to tennis,the court is smaller and has no doubles lanes, and the net is lower. Paddle tennis is played with a solid paddle as opposed to a strung racquet, and a depressurized tennis ball is used along with a underhand serve

Going by the book, a paddle tennis court should be 50 feet in length and 20 feet in wight. The distance from service line to service line should be 44 feet, with 3 feet on either ends emacrated as the service area. In west coast paddle, a restraining line drawn at a distance of 12 feet from the net. No player is supposed to cross the line before who is receiving the serve has struck the ball

The net used in paddle tennis is 22 feet long and 2.6 …show more content…

According to the rules put forth by the USPTA, when this ball is thrown from a height of 6 feet, the bounce should not be less than 31 inches or more than 33 inches.

The player who wins the toss, or paddle spin, gets to choose between the side and serve. In case the player chooses the side, the opponent gets to serve, and if the player chooses to serve, the opponent gets to choose the side.
The player is allowed to serve only once, and in the event of a fault, he loses a point. The service is regarded as a fault when the server misses the ball while attempting a serve, or the ball touches the net when served. The player can either toss the ball in the air or bounce it behind the baseline on the court while serving, but the method once chosen has to be used for the entire set

When serving, the player should not strike the ball at a height of 31 inches or more. Similarly, no part of his body should cross the baseline; doing this will be considered a foot fault and he will lose a point. At the end of each game, there is a role reversal. The receiver becomes server, while the server becomes the

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