The Rules of Tennis EXPLAINED scoring terms and more

if you're new to tennis and you're so confused about the scoring and the rules of tennis why they say love and they count really weird well this is the video watch so we're gonna hop right in and explain the court okay let's get started the first thing you need to understand is that there's two sides of the tennis court there's your opponent's side and your side we're only gonna talk about your side but guess what it's mirror image so whatever we talk about on this side is the exact same side or thing on that side so let's get started the first thing you need to understand is the tennis court is split down the middle so there's two different sides and the very first line we're to talk about is this line right here which is the base line this is where you start every single point and the other thing about the base line is that if you hit the ball past the base line then the ball is out so you got to remember that the next thing we're going to talk about is the single side line which is this line right here so if you're playing singles this is the limit where you're gonna hit the ball you can't hit the ball pass that because it's out the next line we're gonna talk about is the double side line so if you're playing doubles you get this extra line to hit you which makes the court even bigger so the next thing we're gonna talk about is the service line now this divides the court from the back half to the front half and we have the center service line which divides the service boxes so you understand which box you have to serve in now let's talk about the net little bit so you have this net this strung across by two net posts and in the middle of that net post you have the net strap and the top of this is the net tape this divides your side from your opponent's side and as you're doing that you want to make sure you don't hit the ball in the net every point in tennis begins with serve that has to be aimed towards the appropriate box that Megan will talk about in second and you get two tries to try to hit the correct box the only wrinkle in that is if your serve hits the net goes over and lands in then you get redo and we call that let's if it hits the net and doesn't hit the appropriate box and that's fault it's missed serve and you get second try if you miss both serves and you actually lose the point completely if your serve goes into the box and you start to hit back and forth now there's three different ways that the point could end either you or your opponent could hit the net which means the point is is over immediately or one of you might hit outside the lines of play which we'll talk about in second or winner might get hit that's ball that lands in play and bounces twice before the other person can get to it anytime the ball bounces twice the point is immediately done and the side of the courts that it landed twice on that player loses the points and by the way you can also hit the ball out of the air it doesn't have to bounce but if it does bounce you only get one so as the ball travels back and forth there's different boundaries depending on if you're playing singles or doubles this is called the single sideline so if you're playing one player against another single player this is the boundary for the courts if the ball lands outside of the single sidelines and that's out and the point is over and the line is in in tennis so if the ball lands and touches any part of the line then it's good shot and the point continues until somebody misses or if it was winning shot if it's two against two if you're playing doubles then this part of the court the doubles alley is now part of the field of play and now the court goes all the way to the edge of the doubles sideline and again if somebody hits the double sidelines that's in but anything outside of the double sidelines would be out and the point is over whether you're playing singles or doubles the baseline is the back boundary for the courts singles will go all the way up to this corner here doubles would go all the way up to this corner here and again any part of that line is in so if it hits the line you have to do your best to try to play it back if you're gonna go out and play tennis you must know how to keep score and we're gonna start from the very beginning so when you start you start at zero to zero and that it means love and tennis we say love instead of zero so we start always on the right side for every game and this is called the deuce side of the court so when serve let's say win the point then we would go to the other side of the court and would get that point so it would be 15 - love you always say the server score first then would come to the left side of the court which we like to call the outside of the court because when you're serving from the outside someone always has the advantage so it be 15-love let's say win the point again then would come back to the deuce side of the court and the score would be thirty again my score first server score first two love of my opponent he has he or she had zero then let's say win the point again and come back to the outside of the courts so would be forty love then if win the point again win the game now there is point to where when you're tied and have thirty and my opponent also has thirty we like to say thirty all instead of thirty thirty anytime the score is tied but the exception to that is when it's forty to forty we like to say deuce and at Deuce you have to win two consecutive points to win the game so deuce I'm always serving from the deuce side of the court let's say win the point then would go to the outside of the court and you would say add in meaning add in to the server okay if win that point that's two consecutive points and now I've won that game if lose the points at add in then go back to the deuce side and the score is now juice again forty to forty deuce if my opponent wins the point at deuce then come to the add side of the court and the score is now add out add out away from the server and if they win that point that's two consecutive points so they win the game if not you can go back to deuce again so you can see how it can keep going for long time now you need to win its first that's game and then you need to win first two six games win by two games to win set and then you need to win two sets out of three to win match so now let's talk about singles movement it's really important if you're understanding you start on the right side which is the deuce side and after every point you switch sides so you go from the deuce to the like in between each point you keep doing this until the game is over after the game is over after the first game you switch sides and after that every odd number of games you suicide so you switch it one and then at three and then at five games and so on until the sets finished now it's time to talk about doubles movement just like singles you start on the right side if you're the server but it's opposite of the person than that so the server starts the right side and that person is opposite on the left side after each point the serving team or the server will switch to the bad side and the net person will switch to the opposite side so between each point each server and net person is constantly switching to the opposite side now we're going to talk about the returning side the return is going to start at the baseline in the net persons at the net they'll take turns after each point the return on the baseline will come up to the net position and the net person will switch back to the baseline position to take returns and again after each point they'll alternate this movement between up of the baseline person and back of the net person and they'll look continue this into the game's over now that you know the rules of the game and how they keep score you know how to go out and play tennis match so if you have any questions or comments leave them below and we'll see you in the next video