Also, the racquet and ball are akin to Lawn Tennis equipment.
It is very true that overwhelming power is a key to hitting winning shots, but this is also true of Lawn Tennis.
Since the ball must land short of the service line, it is obviously not possible to overpower your opponent for a service ace--as contrasted to the services in Squash Racquets or Lawn Tennis.
Badminton is a game similar to Lawn Tennis, but it is played with shuttlecocks instead of balls, and over a higher net.
Ladies had long figured in lawn tennis tournaments, but in his "Caution to Championesses" in 1887, Punch displayed some misgiving as to the development of this competition.
Lawn tennis, even in 1878, had ceased to be the monopoly of fashionable circles; it was already invading the suburbs.
That golf is in itself a fascinating game, is sufficiently proved in England, where it has drawn so many thousands of devotees away from cricket, football, lawn tennis, and other sports.
Lawn tennis, a variety of the game of tennis, played in the open air, sometimes upon a lawn, instead of in a tennis court.
Lawn Tennis) Defn: A stroke in which a ball touches the top of the net in passing over.
Lawn Tennis) Defn: To bat back (the ball) when served.
To lob a ball (Lawn Tennis), to strike a ball so as to send it up into the air.
And then selecting Nelly and two others, who seemed active young creatures, she gave them their first lesson in lawn tennis.
Now, if this is true, what better and more interesting method of rapid exertion could be devised than a game of lawn tennis?
But a mixed double at lawn tennis seems like a distinct game, so different is it to the other forms of lawn tennis and so well adapted to the combination of both sexes.
Then, again, lawn tennis is not difficult to learn, although of course by this I do not mean that it is an easy game to play well--far from it.
They run the fearful risk of staleness--one of the greatest dangers to a lawn tennis player--and they become physically worn out.
Illustration: A game of doubles in lawn tennis] Considerable difficulty is often experienced by beginners in marking out a court, and, in fact, it is not a simple matter.
People who go into the city are carried in chairs, or drop down the river in their luxurious covered boats, but for exercise they mostly walk on the bund, and play croquet or lawn tennis.
Below there are a garden of acclimatization and a lawn, on which the Resident instructs the bright little daughter of the Datu Klana in lawn tennis.
Mr. Mudge next asked us, in a thoughtful manner, whether "Lawn Tennis" was connected with the institution at the time of the robbery.
Lawn tennis is a much more suitable game for a young lady.
All of which, you see, has a rather damaging look for your friend Lawn Tennis.
The question does not concern you at all, but this athletic young lady--Lawn Tennis.
The name of the club suggests that it is English in its origin; and that is a good omen, for is not old England the home of lawn tennis, as it is also of cricket?
Johnson called fishing, the pastime of fools, I would take them to see a lawn tennis tournament.
Jack Wingfield belonged to Ranelagh and Hurlingham and a couple of lawn tennis clubs, and he had snatched a second-class prize now and again at Cannes and Mentone.
Priscilla knew what it was to dress well, and she was quite aware of the difference there is between a garden party and a lawn tennis meeting.
She fancied that he was smiling at the thought of being once again away from such absurdities of civilization as lawn tennis.
Elsewhere in the grounds there was a lawn tennis court to tempt the officers down from their eyrie in the clouds.
The ground was too steep for athletics; no cricket could be possible there, no lawn tennis, no quoits, no anything.
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