Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Paddle tennis (sometimes branded as POP Tennis since 2015) [1] is a racket sport adapted from tennis and played for over a century. Compared to tennis, the court is smaller, has no doubles lanes, and the net is lower. Paddle tennis is played with a solid perforated paddle, as opposed to a strung racquet, and a lower pressure tennis ball.
Rainout, washout, rain delay, and rain stopped play are terms regarding an outdoor event, generally a sporting event, delayed or canceled due to rain, or the threat of rain. It is not to be confused with a type of out in baseball, though a baseball game can be rained out.
The ball may make contact with the net: if it lands in the service box, it is a valid serve. There are no "lets" in platform tennis. The rules governing the serve are different for singles and doubles play. In a game of singles, similar rules of tennis apply, i.e. the server may make two attempts at a valid serve.
Also, grass courts (in the absence of suitable covers) are usually unplayable for the day if rain appears, as grass becomes very slippery when wet and will not dry for many hours. In contrast, play on a hard court can resume in 30 to 120 minutes after the end of rain, and clay courts can even remain playable in light rain. [1]
Auto racing (NASCAR, IndyCar) (Usually heavy rain or track wetness is needed to delay or cancel a road course race, any kind of precipitation almost always cancels or delays an Oval track race.) Baseball; Cricket; Golf; Tennis; When the rain is excessive an event might be canceled because of a waterlogged pitch.
Richard C. Squires (1931-2003) (popularly known as Mr. Paddle) was a notable tennis, frontenis, squash, and platform tennis player who popularised the sport of platform tennis. Early life [ edit ]
A clay court is one of the types of tennis court on which the sport of tennis is played. Clay courts are built on a foundation of crushed stone, brick, shale, and other aggregate, with a thin layer of fine clay particles on top. Clay courts are more common in Continental Europe and Latin America than in North America, Asia-Pacific or Britain.
Designed by William Higinbotham in 1958 at Brookhaven National Labs on Long Island, NY, Tennis for Two is commonly regarded as the first video game ever designed. This video features a reproduced version of the game built at Brookhaven using original components, for its 50th anniversary.