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Every Wednesday, this site delves into a rule or governing principle that determines how tennis is actually played. We are currently in the middle of a step-by-step explanation of each of the principles contained in “The Code,” which the USTA labels “The Player’s Guide to Fair Play and the Unwritten Rules of Tennis.” This week […]
Every Wednesday this site explores a rule or guiding principle that defines how tennis is actually played, especially in the self-contained environments where most recreational competition takes place. This post concludes the discussion on Principle 6 The code by turning to the phrase that many players find hardest to accept. Even if it costs points, […]
Every Wednesday this site publishes a post on a topic related to the rules and regulations of tennis. If the domain name “Fiend at Court” didn’t give it away, this blog was founded from a rules-oriented perspective. Today’s post resumes the series on “The Code,” which defines the traditional expectations of the sport. Before the […]
We continue our careful, if exaggerated, analysis of the situation The codeone principle at a time. This is the fourth week in a row that focuses on principle 3, which governs the behavior of players during the warm-up. It is also the penultimate episode dedicated to this principle. After going through the refusal to warm […]
This week we resume coverage of Principle 3 from the USTA’s section Friend at court known as ‘The Code’. Today’s post brings us back to the first part of this principle that I deliberately skipped last Wednesday. The previous episode focused on the evolving guidelines around warm-up duration, but the principle itself starts with a […]
We have arrived at the part of The code that shifts to the sport’s pre-match rituals. This section of the document contains two principles under the subheading ‘WARMING-UP’. I didn’t notice it at the time, but the first two numbered principles we covered in this series appear under the general subheading “PRINCIPLES.” In other words, […]
