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To: rudy45; evad; jjbrouwer; andyssister; raybbr; NinoFan; A CA Guy
I haven't looked at the rules in awhile, but as I recall, the only requirement is that the player put the ball into the air, then, before the ball strikes the ground, to hit it with the racket so that it hits inside the service box. The rules I saw had no requirement for overhand vs. underhand.

I would suspect so.

If I were younger and played tennis as I did back in the old days (the 60's), I'd drop one of those little dinky underhanded serves in there quite often.

Really ......... what can the returner do with it????

If it is done well (disguised well).... the returner can do little else than to get to the ball ....... and lift it over the net.

Really..... what are your thoughts on this?

177 posted on 09/11/2006 9:27:06 AM PDT by beyond the sea ( Darryl Worley .......................... "Have You Forgotten?")
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To: beyond the sea

Michael Chang won the French Open semi-final against Lendl serving underhand.


178 posted on 09/11/2006 11:08:07 AM PDT by jjbrouwer
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