Your Guide To The Best Tennis Instructional DVDs Starting With The Highest Reviews.

Tennis DVDs

Welcome to the tennis instructional DVD page. Here we will get to see which tennis DVDs are getting the four & five star customer reviews. A tennis game consists of a sequence of points played with the same player serving, and is won by the first player to have won at least four points and at least two points more than their opponent. (Note: the term "game" is not to be confused with "match".

An entire competitive encounter between two players or teams is referred to as a "match". A game is a small part of a match.) Although the server remains the same for the entire game, the half of the court used for service alternates between courts, beginning with the right half for the first point.

The score of an incomplete game is described in a manner peculiar to tennis: scores of zero to three points are described as "love", "fifteen", "thirty", and "forty". These are usually represented textually as "0", "15", "30", "40". When stating the score, the server's score is stated first. Thus, for example, the phrase "thirty-love" or text "30/0" means that the server has won two points in the game and the receiver none. Verbally, the word "all" is used when the scores are tied, so "fifteen-all" (written "15/15") means that each player has won one point.

If each player has won three points, the score is described as "deuce" rather than "forty-all". It may be written either as "40/40" or "deuce". From this point on, the exact number of points won is not counted, because it is no longer significant: each player now has sufficiently many points that they need only get two points ahead of their opponent in order to win the game. Whenever the score is tied, it is described as "deuce", and may still be written "40/40" regardless of how many points have been won. When a player is one point ahead, the score is "advantage" to that player, for example "advantage Smith" if Mr Smith is one point ahead of Mr Jones. This score may be written in that form, or as "40/A" or "A/40" as appropriate. If the player with advantage loses the next point then the score returns to "deuce".

Thus, using the tennis terminology for scores, a player wins the game when they win a point while their score is "forty" and their opponent's score is "thirty" or less, or when they win a point while they have "advantage".