|The basic rules of tennis|
|Around the Academy:
Tennis is a game played on a rectangular court by either two players (singles) or four (doubles).
Players stand on opposite sides of a net and use a stringed racket to hit a ball back and forth to each other.
Each player has a maximum of one bounce after it has been hit by their opponent to return the ball over the net and within the boundaries of the court.
Once a player fails to do any of these three things, her opponent wins a point.
The aim is to win enough points to win a game and enough games to win a set and enough sets to win a match.
The first person to win six games wins a set.
Matches are usually the best of three or the best of five sets.