The tennis primer . FOREHAND GRIP. Now let the hand turn sufficiently to the side, as shown inPlate 3, to grip the racket. would in the foregoing case be called 15-love or love-15and 15-all, according to whether the server or his oppo-nent wins the first stroke. Love, in tennis scoring,means nothing. If the server wins the first two strokes, the score is Spaldings athletic library. 11 30-love. If his opponent wins the next one it is the server loses the next one the game is oO-all. It will thus be seen that the first two strokes are givena value of 15 each. The third stroke is assesse


The tennis primer . FOREHAND GRIP. Now let the hand turn sufficiently to the side, as shown inPlate 3, to grip the racket. would in the foregoing case be called 15-love or love-15and 15-all, according to whether the server or his oppo-nent wins the first stroke. Love, in tennis scoring,means nothing. If the server wins the first two strokes, the score is Spaldings athletic library. 11 30-love. If his opponent wins the next one it is the server loses the next one the game is oO-all. It will thus be seen that the first two strokes are givena value of 15 each. The third stroke is assessed at 10^ so. Plate U. FOREHAND GRIP. Close the hand round the racket. This gives the proper fore-hand grip used by the greatest players of modern times, and alsoof those who made the history of the game before the presentunsound English grip was introduced. that if 30-air has been called and the server wins thenext point the score is called 40-30. Should the receiver,or striker-out, as he is generally called, win the next pointafter 30-all/ the score would be called 30-40. 12 Spaldings athletic library. A game is won b} either side when four aces or pointshave been scored, unless each side wins three points, whichmeans 40-all, but is always called Deuce. At Deuce it is necessary for either side to win two con-secutive strokes before the game is won. so that once the


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