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TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18,

1937.

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Countering Service

At Tennis

SUGGESTION MADE BY MR. H. A. SABELLI

By F. R. Burrow

H. S. Scrivener, in deploring what he called "tinkering with the rules," And I am particularly opposed to legislating for (and against) the "crack" player, who, after all, is not more than one in ten thousand of those who play and enjoy the game as it stands. The general body of players

ought to

to be remembered und considered when alterations to the rules of the game (in which the men- surements of the court are an in- tegral part) are being suggested: how such alterations will or may affeet them is at least as important as how they will affect the player who has a chance of a champlon- ship.

"Aiter

ali, In this particular in- stance, the battle between the ser ver and the receiver is an age-lon battle; sometimes this server has the better of it, sometimes the

Nearly ever since the service ceased to be underhand, and the introduction of the overhead-or, as it was then called, over- hand-service was greeted with shrieks of disapproval on the ground that it would “ruin the game," attempts have been made to lessen the server's advantage. These attempts have mainly been concerned with hampering the server as much as possibleine by defining with the utmost strictness where and how he is to stand to deliver the service, and what movements of his feet he may and may not make during the time that elapses between his taking up his position and the actual striking of the ball with his racket.

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receiver finds the proper counter. In a long series of singles I should doubt if the server, in any case, has more than In per cent. advantage. doubles it is very much higher, but

because the service is

merc not powerful but because the server has

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a partner to guard half of the court against the return of the service. In The rules in which these attempts | bull straight down the middle of the anx case, though experiment with nol court. But it decreased the space Mr. Sabelli's proposal would be in- have resulted, however, wholly satisfactory because not into which the server could direct teresting, transintion of it into ar- more than one umpire in a hundred the ball, even more than the bring-cept

ceptance

must be far distant; the will take his courage in his handsing of the service-line a foot nearer International Federation alone can and enforce them stretly. Conse- his net would have done; and, worse alter the rules of the game, and as quently, suggestions have from time from the point of view of the it proceeds by the method of com to the been made in the direction traditionalist, it necessitated amittees

consider and to

and report, and of limiting the server's

udvantage

great change in the marking out of the circularising of the report to the either by altering the measurements the court. I believe that it Was thirty-odd nations which comprise of the court so as to reduce the area tried, though it curtainly cannot have the Federation for their considera- of the service court, or by making been fully tested; in any case, the tion and report, and the reception in stand forther away from the net suggestion passed into the Bimbo of of their opinions, and referring the behind the baseline so as to increase forgotten things.

matter back for further considera- tion and report-well, 1 should be surprised If the Centre Court

different But the fertile brain of Mr. Sabelli Wimbledon presents any the server to go through any.

ten years hence from antles or contortions he liked in de- is not one to be discouraged by disappearance Bvering the service so long as both appointment. He has recently made what it dues now! his feet were behind that line at the a frests proposal, in his desire to put moment ball.

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his margin of error. This last idea consisted in drawing a new ine a foot behind the baseline, and allow- Ing the

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over the foot-fault rule (or, rather,

UMPIRE'S DIFFICULTIES

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[[ this suggestion had met with Game). This consists in allowing

the server, while keeping one fool

in

the

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approval it is doubtful whether the surver would have been materially on the ground behind the baseline The Undersigned have received disadvantaged, but not in the least during the delivery of his service, instructions to sell by doubtful that the difficulties of the to swing the other as far over it as umpire would have been increased, he chooses, or can do without losing

the server would be farther his balance. since since

compensation for (For account of the Concerned} away from him, and the exact post- this liberty of action, be drawn

on MONDAY, tion of his feet (on which the whole foot or fifteen inches behind

the 20th December, 1937, difficulty arises) even harder to de-cross-service line. Any first service

at 5.15 p.m., termine. Besides, the addition of that pitches beyond this new line is more lines to the court-even outside not to be a fault but a point scored at the Paddock of the Hongkong It was not looked on favourably. The to the receiver: no second service,

la measurements of the court have been in the case, is to be allowed. A first exactly as they are to-day for a long service that pitches between the new way over fifty years. The game has line and the ordinary cross-service | been bullt up

and developed on line is to be a fault, and another those measurements. and there has service (as at present) is to be per- | been a general feeling that if the misted. advantage possessed by the server is to be curbed it must be done in some It

seems to me that almost the other Way than

by altering the only disadvantage to Mr. Sabelli's measuremcals of the court. A sug-proposal is the one on which other gestion that the service-line should proposals have struck and foundered Club Stables, not later than the be brought a foot nearer the netthe addition of a fresh line to the was, for the same reason, dismissed. court. There may be others: for

too example, the

the indifferent It would have operated much too

who player, uses his first service ns a severely against the server who has eithe learnt and developed a severe ser- sighting shot or else sims it wildly

since services of the "cannon-down in the pathelle hope that

weil bound, may

st be goal, will certainly tose a type are Preity from their trajectory, to pitch within great many aces right off and a good a few inches of the service-line; and many more by "doubles." That the

a foot serv

service

Bnesmon (if any)

*would brought nearer the net all these would be have two lines to watch Instead of faults, and the time and energy spent one is true enough but need present on acquiring a really good service no great difficulty. But the umpire wasted.

In the chair would be in much less difficulty than he is now, because it A year or two ago a further is the "swinging foot" that is, at pro- gestion was made by the secretary of sent, the chief cause of his troubles. the LTA. Mr. H. A. Sabelli, that. Also, the proposal has the great ad- Instead

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