Mixed doubles - Doubles competition in which each team is made up of one female and one male player.
Return - To hit an opponent's shot back over the net and in play. After service, every successful shot is a return.
Chip - A soft shot, hit with backspin, that just drops over the net; as a verb, to hit such a shot. It's similar to the drop shot, but is more commonly used against an opponent who is at the net, forcing a difficult volley..
Open tournament - In the early days of tennis, clubs held two types of tournaments: Closed, to which only club members were admitted, and open, which non-members could also enter. With the advent of professionalism, "open" came to mean a tournament that could be entered by amateurs and professionals alike. Today, all major tournaments are opens.
Approach shot - a shot designed to help the hitter get to the net behind it. Approach shots are generally deep, time-consuming (but not slow), and fairly straight (to deny a sharply angled return).
Overhead - A shot hit much like a serve, when the ball is above the player's head, usually a smash. It's often used by a player at net or in the forecourt against a lob that hasn't been hit deep enough.
Serve and volley - A style of play in which the server takes the net after each successful serve in order to volley the opponent's return.
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