SERVICE-THE OPENING GUN OF TENNIS
SERVICE-THE OPENING GUN OF TENNIS.
Service is the opening gun of tennis.
It is putting the ball in play.
The old idea was that service should
never be more than merely the beginning of a rally.
With the rise of American...
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SERVICE-THE OPENING GUN OF TENNIS
SERVICE-THE OPENING GUN OF TENNIS.
Service is the opening gun of tennis.
It is putting the ball in play.
The old idea was that service should
never be more than merely the beginning of a rally.
With the rise of American tennis and the advent of
Dwight Davis and Holcombe Ward, service took on a new significance.
These two men originated
what is now known as the American Twist delivery.
From a mere formality, service became a point winner.
Slowly it gained in importance, until Maurice
E.
M Loughlin, the wonderful "California Comet," burst across the tennis sky with the first of those
terrific cannon-ball deliveries that revolutionized the game, and caused the old-school players to send
out hurry calls for a severe footfault rule or some way of stopping the threatened destruction of all
ground strokes.
M Loughlin made service a great factor in the game.
It remained for R.
N.
Williams to
supply the antidote that has again put service in the nor
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