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Let – a serve is called a let when the ball hits the net cord but still lands in the service court. Such a serve is not considered a fault and the server may repeat the service attempt. On serve – both players have held each of their service games in the set or had an equal number of service breaks in the set, putting them "back on serve".
Italy's Mount Etna shot lava into the sky on Sunday, 12 November, spewing ash high over the Mediterranean island of Sicily. According to Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology ...
Real tennis (also royal tennis or court tennis): An indoor racket sport which was the predecessor of the modern game of (lawn) tennis. The term real is used as a retronym to distinguish the ancient game from the modern game of lawn tennis. Known also as court tennis in the United States or royal tennis in Australia. [113]
A serve (or, more formally, a service) in tennis is a shot to begin the point. The most common serve is used is an overhead serve.It is initiated by tossing the ball into the air over the server's head and hitting it when the arm is fully stretched out (usually near the apex of its trajectory) into the diagonally opposite service box without touching the net.
According to the Icelandic Meteorological Office, the volcano shot lava about 50 meters (about 165 feet) high and came from a fissure that is about 1 kilometer long (about 1,100 yards).
Fountains of red lava shot into the sky in Sicily overnight on March 9-10, as Mount Etna continued to erupt.This footage, recorded in Zafferana Etnea, about five kilometers southeast of Mount Etna ...
A smash in tennis is a shot that is hit above the hitter's head with a serve-like motion. It is also referred to as an overhead. It is also referred to as an overhead. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] A smash can usually be hit with a high amount of force and is often a shot that ends the point .
The following is a glossary of traditional English-language terms used in the three overarching cue sports disciplines: carom billiards referring to the various carom games played on a billiard table without pockets; pool, which denotes a host of games played on a table with six pockets; and snooker, played on a large pocket table, and which has a sport culture unto itself distinct from pool.