TENNIS (of uncer tain derivation; possibly from OF. tore; impv. of tenir, to seize, take, i.e. the A game played with racquet and ball in a covered court. It has been well described as the mother of lawn tennis It is usually played by two players, a four-handed game being rarely met with in mod ern tennis. The racquet is of the large-headed, large-handed variety. It has a smaller face but is heavier than the lawn-tennis racquet, in order to counteract the ball. which is heavier than the la?? n tennis ball, although about the same size. The court has walls on all its four sides, a !Ida penthouse along three sides. The spectators are accommodated in the dcdues. A ball played over the net into this &Vans counts as a winning stroke to the striker. In front of the dedans. over the net and down the right-hand wall, is a tambour or protruding buttress. Past the tambour in the wall directly opposite the dedans is the grille. A hall played
over the net into this grille makes a winning stroke. In the left-hand side wall there are many openingA protected with 'lettings called galleries, the last gallery being known as the winning gal lery, owing to the fact that a ball played over the net into it counts as a winning stroke. All the way down the left-hand side of the court runs the penthouse above the galleries. The penthouse also extends over the dedans and the grille. In tennis, the set consists of six games, though `deuce' and 'vantage' games may be played, while 'faults' and 'double faults' score as in lawn tennis. The ball must be hit over the net before it is bounded twice, and the scoring is the same as in the better known forms of the game, e.g. 15 love, 15 all, 30-15, 30 all, 40-30, deuce, vantage, deuce. vantage, game.