TABLE TENNIS--Do I HAVE to let the ball hit my side before I return it?  i.e. in tennis I don't have to wait
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ok let me investigate.\n\n:> peace\n.
145678
Depends what you like to do.  First of all, do not stand right on the baseline.  If you are a defensive player, stand a couple feet back from the baseline.  If you are aggresive and can take the ball off the rise, stand closer to the baseline.   There are times that you do take a step inside the baseline after you hit a shot, but you have to know when.  Watch the pro's.  They know where to stand.  Even if you are aggresive, you have to step back sometimes.  Even Federer is caught 8 feet behind the baseline sometimes.  Only extremely stubborn players never back up.  Stubborn players are not smart players and will lose a lot of matches to people they shouldn't have.
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Tennis racquets are of a somewhat oval shape while racquetball racquet are much shorter and have a flattened top.\n\nPicture of a tennis racquet:\nhttp://www.ideal.co.nz/site/ideal/images/stickandwin/19_Ultra_LT_Tennis_Racket_WITRCS510.jpg\n\nPicture of a racquetball racket:\nhttp://www.racquetworld.com/merchant2/graphics/product_pictures/racquets/triadt170sm.jpg\n\nWhile a tennis racquet could be used in a game of racquetball, a real racquetball racquet should be used if you have any desire to pursure the game any further. \n\nGo ahead and play a game of racquetball with your friend using tennis racquets, but beware that prolonged use of them in a racquetball game could damage them. Racquetballs are much heavier than a tennis ball and could cause frame fractures and/or damage to the strings. \n\nIt's ok to improvise, but use the equipment designed for the game if you do it frequently.\n\nEDIT:In response to the ball part, you can use a tennis ball if you would like, if the place where you go to play allows it. My local YMCA did not allow tennis balls in the raquetball courts. Again, don't use a tennis ball if you are playing with people other than your friends, as a tennis ball would not be allowed on any sort of competitive level.\n\nNot your question, but you shouldn't do the reverse - that is use a raquetball on a tennis court. The surface of a (hard court) tennis court is very rough and would damage the rubber raquetball very quickly.
1038180
I take side. Only because my serve isn't wonderful, and I'm comfortable returning the ball.
309204
The problem with how people are answering is they might be missing exactly what you are asking.  If you are asking say the score is 15 all and you are serving from the deuce court and you miss your first serve, that is simply a fault and you then attempt your 2nd serve.  However if the score is say 15-30 and you are serving from the deuce side, after missing a first serve your opponents point out that you incorrectly served from the worng side, they can insist that you serve from the correct side with your 2nd serve.  Most players will simply give the server a first serve again and require that they serve from the correct Ad-court side.
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First, you get a partner and get on a tennis court. Then, at the start of the game, choose who will serve first.\n\nEX:You serve 1st. Start behind the bottom line of the court on you side. Hit the ball into the opposite square on your opponent's side of the court. Make sure you don't pass the little white line in the center. If you don't in the first try, that is a fault. If the ball hits the top of the net and goes over to the other side, that is a let. Redo. No faults, no points. You get a second try. Try to hit the opposite square on your opponents side of the court. If you miss again, that is a double fault and your opponent gets a point. The score would say 0-15.(server's score is always first)Now, you switch sides(from one square to the other)If you succeed, and he/she can't return it, that is called an ace. You get one point(15-15)Now you go back to where you started.(It alternates each point)Now, you serve, and your opponent hits it back to you. It has to go over the net, and in front the line from where you serve, and not in the two boxes at the sides of the court.(Only in play for doubles)It is 40-30 now. You score. You win the game. NOT THE WHOLE GAME! The whole game is called a match. A match is seperated into sets, then games. You win the first set,(out of your choise, 3 or 5 sets.) 6-4.(6 games to win a set and by 2 games. There is a tiebraker, but I don't know that. Sorry.)2nd set:You win 7-5. You win the Match.(If played out of 3 sets.) I don't know if I'm missing anything, but that's my basic way of playing tennis the best way I could explain it.
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what you should do, is strike the ball between the middle of the ball and the bottom of the ball hard... swing your foot back and strike it with your non- kicking foot beside the ball and your body not too forward over the ball and not to much of a lean backward (practice is needed to determine the right angle of body) ... repetition of this over and over should be performed.
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In tournament play, hitting out of bounds is a "stroke and distance" penalty, which means you take the stroke penalty, and you must go back to where you hit your previous shot.  \n\nIn this case, your first stroke went out of bounds.  You take a stroke penalty, and return to the teeing ground.  Your next stroke would be your third for the hole, the first being the original stroke and the second being the penalty stroke.\n\nAs an aside, there have been groups that have been trying to get the USGA to change the penalty to either just distance - meaning if you went out of bounds, you would be just assessed the distance penalty and you would be hitting your second from the tee box, rather than your third - or just a stroke penalty, and treat the out of bounds as a lateral hazard, so that your next shot would be your third, but you would be dropping in the vicinity of where the ball went out of bounds, rather than going back to where you hit your previous shot.
724623
don't knock the 8-ball in until last, unless you're playing straight pool........ keep your eye-level as low as possible, use a smooth stroke.
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Stupid question - tennis
832310
It is your point.  It does not matter if your team did totally miss it , your call.   That's why the serving team always has to play the point.  You guys could miss a line call on a first serve and they will still have to play it if you do  not make the call.  Guys would be calling lets on all your good returns if the rule was reversed.  It is your point, that is the rule and that is how it should be.
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My racket face is definately above my shoulder during my backswing.  Its motion path is sort of like a candy cane when it comes in line with the ball and finishes with a sort of twisted figure eight as I wrap the racket around my shoulder and back.  I would presume after looking closely on camera that my stroke does just dip down below the level of the ball as it straightens to come in line with the stroke.  This all happens so fast that you would need to slow the film down to see the actual path precisely
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I think also it's the only sport that you pay regularly to check whether you have the proper swing to hit the ball. I've never heard of a ping-pong range and pro, or  badminton pro-shop. You're right, switch to pingpong.
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You should just hit the one-ball to avoid scratching again.  There's no set rule that says what you have to do in this situation.  I would graze the one-ball and leave my opponent with no shot on the one-ball without banking the ball, hoping that he/she will scratch.  Then you can hit the one-ball in and break the pack at the same time, most probably leaving you with a shot on the two-ball.
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Okay, first of all, a lot of these answers are silly. I play, and honestly, it mostly comes down to how polite you really are. There is a lot of politeness involved. You should always shake hands before and after the games, compliment each other's shots, be a team player, and be curtious. You can be disqualified if you don't have four players for the open draw of the bonspeil though. I guess, it's more if people don't want you to play, they'll just ask you to leave, there is hardly any disqualification. \n\nAs to touching a rock after you release it, it isn't as much of a disqualification of the player, but of the Rock. If you touch it (burn as it is known in curling jargon) then you simply take it out of play.
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I did something similar to that. make sure you stretch those muscles before your next practice like mad, and once you play more you'll be less prone to hurting it. Also, you may want to modify your serving technique. If you're bending too much to one side or the other, it can really hurt you. Ask your coach about it.
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yeah! playing ping-pong against the wall. who won? lol. the wall ALWAYS win. lol haha. \neither i cannot return it after a while or did not hit hard enough to reach the wall.