{"id":932,"date":"2012-11-19T21:57:51","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T03:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usnta.com\/blog\/?page_id=932"},"modified":"2014-03-03T20:58:18","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T02:58:18","slug":"principles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/usnta.com\/tennis\/principles\/","title":{"rendered":"Principles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
PRINCIPLES to Remember…
\n<\/strong><\/span>Excerpts from the USTA Official Rules of Tennis and the USTA Code<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Courtesy.<\/span><\/strong> Tennis is a game that requires cooperation and courtesy from all participants. Make tennis a fun game by praising your opponents\u2019 good shots. <\/span>Please, DO NOT:
\n<\/span>\u2022 conducting loud postmortems after points;
\n\u2022 complaining about shots like lobs and drop shots;
\n\u2022 embarrassing a weak opponent by being overly gracious or condescending;
\n\u2022 losing your temper, using vile language, throwing your racket, slamming a ball in anger, or sulking when you are losing.<\/span><\/td>\n		\"\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nELIMINATING & HANDLING SCORING DISPUTES…<\/strong>
\n<\/strong><\/span>Disputes over the score shall be resolved by using one of the following methods, which are listed in order of preference:
\n\u2022 Count all points and games agreed upon by the players and replay only the disputed points or games;
\n\u2022 Play from a score mutually agreeable to all players;
\n\u2022 Spin a racket or toss a coin.<\/span>The #1 Method of Eliminating Scoring Disputes is…<\/span><\/strong> The Server shall announce the game score before the first point of the game and the point score before each subsequent point of the game.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Warm-up is not practice<\/strong><\/span>. A player should provide the opponent a 5 minute warm-up (ten minutes if there are no ball persons). If a player refuses to warm-up the opponent, the player forfeits the right to a warm-up. Some players confuse warm-up and practice. A player should make a special effort to hit shots directly to the opponent. (If Doubles Partners want to warm each other up while their opponents are warming up, they may do so.)<\/span> Warm-up serves.<\/span><\/strong> Take all your warm-up serves before the first serve of the match. Courtesy dictates that you not practice your service return when your opponent practices serving. If a player has completed the player\u2019s warm-up serves, the player shall return warm-up serves directly to the opponent.<\/span><\/td>\n\"\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PRINCIPLES to Remember… Excerpts from the USTA Official Rules of Tennis and the USTA Code Courtesy. Tennis is a game that requires cooperation and courtesy from all participants. Make tennis a fun game by praising your opponents\u2019 good shots. Please, DO NOT: \u2022 conducting loud postmortems after points; \u2022 complaining about shots like lobs and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-932","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnta.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnta.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnta.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnta.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnta.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/usnta.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2001,"href":"https:\/\/usnta.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/932\/revisions\/2001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnta.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}