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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2012-05-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
DEF

Any shot which goes by (passes) an opponent who is close to the net. Usually refers to a shot hit with much pace, as opposed to a slice shot.

CONT

When Voinea drilled a passing shot near his body, Becker took a few menacing steps toward him.

CONT

Short points are usually going to be the essence in doubles where twice the number of players crowd the court, making rallies less likely and attempts at passes more likely to be foiled.

OBS

Not to be confused with "passing shot winner". A "passing shot" is a shot that a defensive player is forced to make in order to place the ball behind the opposing net player. Such a shot may or may not go over the net or may or may not land within the opposing court. Successful of not, the attempt is called a "passing shot". And only if it is successful, does one call it a "passing shot winner". Related term: placement (generic term for any type of shot that is hit to an open area of the court; usually refers to shots made without much pass). Related term: buggywhip shot.

OBS

The "passing shot" is also called a "pass shot".

PHR

accurate passing shot, backhand passing shot, blistering (forehand) passing shot, (angled/short) crosscourt passing shot, down-the-line passing shot, forehand passing shot, hard passing shot, slice backhand passing shot, soft passing shot, strong passing shot; passing shot lane.

PHR

to cut off a pass(ing shot), dare one's opponent to hit the passing shot, hit a passing shot, intercept a passing shot, overplay a passing shot, slam a(cross-court) passing shot.

Key term(s)
  • pass-shot

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
DEF

Coup droit, revers, volée ou demi-volée, destiné à passer du premier coup sur les côtés (et non par un lob) un adversaire qui est monté au filet, soit à l'obliger à volleyer dans des conditions difficiles pour conclure au coup suivant.

CONT

Un débordement survient quand la balle frappée en croisé ou en parallèle, arrive derrière l'adversaire alors qu'il avance.

OBS

Coup qui peut être effectué le long de la ligne ou croisé. «Passing-shot» : terme utilisé en France. Terme connexe : coup gagnant. En français le terme générique «coup de débordement» peut avoir deux équivalents anglais, selon le contexte : 1) passing shot 2) forcing shot. À la différence du terme «forcing shot» que l'on peut utiliser dans n'importe quelle situation lors d'un match, il faut que son adversaire soit installé au filet avant qu'on puisse qualifier son coup de «passing shot». Termes connexes (moins précis) : tir imparable, coup hors de portée.

OBS

Le lob offensif est en fait un passing-shot haut qui, bien exécuté, incitera l'adversaire à plus de prudence dans ses montées.

PHR

coup de débordement brossé, coup de débordement rasé de frais, coup de débordement en slice; défier un coup de débordement (=force the passing shot, dare one's opponent to go for a passing shot), intercepter un coup de débordement, loger un coup de débordement (dans des trous de souris).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes de raqueta
CONT

[Revés plano :] Trayectoria rectilínea. La pelota se golpea delante de la rodilla derecha. Ideal para el passing-shot.

PHR

passing-shot paralelo.

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Record 2 2012-02-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
OBS

serve: also used in table tennis and badminton.

PHR

To serve at 3/4 pace/speed, at the body, big, cross-court, down the centre, effortlessly, flat out, for the set, hard, into the body, into the sun, on the rise, out of one's mind, out of turn, out the match, out wide, overhead, short, underhand, wide, with power and angle.

PHR

To elect to serve.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
OBS

servir : employé aussi au tennis de table et au badminton.

PHR

Servir dans le mauvais ordre, droit sur l'adversaire, en dessous, en dessus, le long du centre, plat, en pousse-balle.

PHR

S'apprêter à servir. Choisir de servir.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes de raqueta
CONT

Debéis servir largo y sobre el punto débil del adversario, que generalmente suele ser el revés.

PHR

Servir abierto, al centro de la pista, al cuerpo, fuera de turno.

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Record 3 2012-01-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
DEF

The result of hitting the tennis ball with a tennis racquet; sometimes refers to the actual placement of the ball or manner in which it is struck.

CONT

A shot is the combination of a stroke and the situation in which it is used.

OBS

"Long" is an informal expression used to indicate that a shot went out past the baseline. Important nuance: a "stroke" implies early preparation and a complete follow through. If one were to envision a stroke, one would see a series of sequences, ending with a "shot", i.e. the result of all of the above. Consequently, a "shot" is the result of the "stroke". "Shot" implies a quick, sharp movement because one is focusing on the end result, not the series of sequences leading up to it. A "blow" is rather an imprecise, general term similar in meaning to "shot". Although many would like to maintain these nuances in English, "shot" and "stroke" are often used synonymously. "Blow" is used only rarely. Note, however that although there are two possible equivalents ("coup" and "frappe") in French, neither are semantically identical to the English offerings. The Spanish term "pegada" works well as an equivalent for "shot", although technically the term more specifically refers to the actual hitting action caused by the racket coming in contact with the ball, and not to the end result [cause vs effect].

CONT

Keeping your feet wide apart is an important key to maintaining good balance and positioning while moving from shot to shot.

CONT

Since his injury in the first set, he has lost a lot of sting in his shots.

PHR

Shape, strength of shot. Barrage, range, string of shots.

PHR

Shot bounces. Shot drifts wide. Shot has no pace on it. Shot will go/sail long.

PHR

Accurate, aggressive, angled, approach, bread-and-butter, buggywhip, chip, cinch, crafty, cross-court, crummy, decisive, deep, defensive, delicate, down-the-line, down-the-T, drop, extraordinary, fantastic, fast, floating, floppy, follow-up, forcing, gutsy, hard, hard-to-read, high-risk, inside-out, kill, laser, looping, loose, low, low-percentage, low-risk, mammoth, midcourt, off-centre, offensive, outside-in, passing, percentage, power, pressure, recovery, risky, safe, set-up, shallow, sharp-angled, short, showoff, sloppy, soft, spin, strong, tactical, topspin, touch, tough, tricky, two-handed, underspin, varied, vicious, wide, winning, wrongfooting shot.

PHR

Irretrievable key shot.

PHR

To admire, angle, anticipate, attack, baby, block, bungle, center, chop down, conceal, cut off, develop, dip, direct, flatten out, go for, guide, handle, hit, hold, improvise, intercept, lean into, line up, make, meet, miss, move into, muff, muscle, net, place, play, pop up, practice, pull off, put away, retrieve, rifle, run down, rush through, send, set up, smack, spray, step into, take, target, telegraph, time, track, underspin, unleash a shot.

PHR

To add pep to a shot. To approach behind a shot. To be cute with a shot. To react to a shot. To scoop down for a shot. To put one’s whole body behind shot. To get one’s weight behind/into the shot. To mix up shots. To stream together shots.

PHR

To raise a shot high. To telegraph shop direction. To whip a shot up/down the line.

PHR

Crushing shots. Filing one’s body into a shot.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
CONT

[...] Rien pour embarrasser François dont la régularité des coups en fond de terrain et la grande ténacité font de ce jeune joueur le champion canadien des 14 ans et moins.

CONT

[...] ses coups assenés du fond du court avec cette insolente précision qui blanchit les lignes.

PHR

Coup d'approche, d'attaque, en angle, audacieux, de base, de contre-attaque, coupé, croisé, décentré, décisif, défensif, déguisé, dévastateur, époustouflant, d'expert, explosif, faiblard, fantaisiste, fatal, de grande classe, lourd, mal ajusté, offensif, plat, précis, puissant, raté, retenu, risque, souple, spectaculaire, tordu.

PHR

Puissance, tempo d'un coup. Déroulement du coup. Gamme, production des coups.

PHR

Anticiper, appuyer, centrer, ralentir, rater, tourner un coup.

PHR

Assurer un bon centrage d'un coup. Laisser aller ses coups.

PHR

Sortir des coups impressionnants.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes de raqueta
DEF

Efecto de jugar a pegar golpes a una pelota.

CONT

Cualidades que debe poseer un buen servicio [...] Variación constante de la pegada (plana o con efecto).

CONT

Vuelta a la posición de espera tardía, lo que hace dejar un hueco en el que nuestro adversario dirigirá su próximo tiro.

PHR

Tiro angulado. Golpe definitivo, defensivo, estático, violento.

PHR

Un golpe lleva efecto.

PHR

Angular un tiro.

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Record 4 2012-01-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
CONT

Assuming that Joe is an average club player, he’ll almost always hit approximately to the same spot from that forehand corner of his. He won’t cross-court half the time and put it down the line or into the center the rest of the time.

PHR

Backhand, baseline, forehand, open, service box corner.

PHR

To pick the corner.

PHR

To put/place the ball into the corner.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
CONT

Après un échange réussi de dix coups, passer à un échange de vingt coups, en essayant de frapper profond dans les coins de coup droit.

PHR

Coin de coup droit, de revers.

PHR

Frapper les coins.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes de raqueta
CONT

Colocad el primer servicio en los ángulos.

CONT

Nos referimos al recorrido que describe el cuerpo en su desplazamiento hacia la pelota; éste ha de ser siempre [...] más o menos en dirección a la esquina derecha de la pista contraria, en diagonal [...] lo que es atajar la pelota, cortarle el camino. Si se ataca la pelota en este sentido, se irán encontrando grandes beneficios en el momento del impacto.

PHR

Esquina del drive.

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Record 5 2011-12-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
DEF

Refers to a tennis shot made from the side of the tennis court and directed across the net near the edge of the court on the same side.

CONT

Strokes played approximately parallel with the sidelines are described as "down the line" as opposed to "cross-court".

OBS

Because of the length of this qualifier, "down-the-line" is more often than not used as a predicate, as in the phrase a "drop shot down-the-line". Furthermore, "up-the-line" is sometimes used synonymously with "down-the-line". It seems that it is merely a question of perspective; opposite of "crosscourt".

CONT

... driven shots down the line can travel above head height at the net and still drop inside the base-line.

CONT

[He] drops his left shoulder and raises his right one before driving down the line.

PHR

A down-the-line backhand return winner.

PHR

To hit/put the ball down the line.

Key term(s)
  • up-the-line
  • up the line

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
DEF

Relatif à un coup dirigé parallèlement aux lignes de côté.

OBS

Exemple : coup le long de la ligne. Ne pas confondre avec «position parallèle» .

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes de raqueta
CONT

Tres posibilidades de resto: al centro a sus pies, cruzada o paralela.

PHR

Dejada paralela.

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Record 6 2011-12-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
DEF

An offensive groundstroke where the tennis ball is propelled forcefully with either top spin or with a flat-faced racquet deep into an opponent’s court. Such a quick shot would barely clear the net.

OBS

Both the French and Spanish make much use of the anglicism "drive", albeit not in a correct fashion: In English "drive" is supposed to imply a ball hit with a lot of pace to win a point outright, regardless of the type of spin used to accomplish this task. (The terms "shot" and "stroke", being more neutral, need not imply any added spin whatsoever) However in both French and Spanish, "drive" is often used as a synonym for "forehand" (shot/stroke), or like English it can refer to any hard shot, whether on the backhand or forehand side.

CONT

... driven shots down the line can travel above head height at the net and still drop inside the base-line.

PHR

Angled, backhand, cross-court, deep, flat, forehand, hard, penetrating drive.

PHR

A drive leaves the racket.

PHR

To hit, return, rip, smack, wallop a drive. To thread the needle with a drive.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
DEF

Frappe de la balle avec force après son rebond. La balle tombe habituellement dans le fond du terrain.

OBS

drive : terme générique qui ne s'emploie guère au Canada. Utiliser plutôt «coup droit» ou «coup de revers», ou «boulet» (coup puissant) selon le cas.

CONT

Les coups d'approche. Il s'agit d'un coup droit ou d'un revers d'attaque sur une balle courte de l'adversaire qui préparent une montée au filet destinée à conclure le point.

CONT

Effet brossé de revers [...] Voilà un coup d'attaque qui requiert un parfaite synchronisation.

PHR

Drive lifté, d'attaque, éclair.

PHR

Délivrer des drives.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes de raqueta
OBS

El anglicismo-término «drive» puede tener dos traducciones inglesas: 1) drive (sentido genérico) 2) forehand drive (sentido específico). El término «golpe de ataque» es genérico y así puede tener traducciones diferentes según el contexto.

CONT

Revés liftado [...] Este golpe de ataque requiere perfecta coordinación.

CONT

[El golpe liftado de derecha] es, normalmente, de ataque, es un golpe que suele desbordar bastante está bien ejecutado y que se emplea, sobre todo, para mover al contrario de un lado a otro, siendo muy efectivos los golpes cruzados; en este caso, el cruzado de derecha, haciendo que, como el bote es rápido y muy alto, el contrario, para devolverlo, tenga que salirse literalmente de la pista.

PHR

Golpe de ataque angulado.

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Record 7 2011-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
OBS

Many purists have tried in vain to maintain the distinction between a "shot" and a "drive", the latter yielding a ball with a lot of pace while the former term being more generic, i.e., not necessarily a ball hit hard, but simply the result of the racquet making contact with the ball - a slice backhand or drop volley are both "shots" that require more touch than power. The term "drive" implies the use of power.

CONT

After you’ve seen him hit long diagonal drives three or four times from that spot, you can be sure he’ll do it nine times out of ten.

OBS

cross-court drive : also a badminton term.

PHR

Angled cross-court drive.

Key term(s)
  • crosscourt drive

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
CONT

Diriger des coups profonds en croisé sur le coup droit de l'adversaire, ou en parallèle sur son revers, ou tenter un coup croisé en angle (près de l'angle formé par la ligne de service et la ligne de côté).

OBS

drive croisé : terme de badminton.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes de raqueta
CONT

Golpe cruzado y profundo hacia la esquina del drive de su adversario, en paralelo a la esquina del revés o intente un golpe muy angulado (buscando con el bote la zona lateral del cuadro de recepción).

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Record 8 2011-11-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
DEF

A tennis player who, as opposed to a "tournament player", regularly plays at a club rather than on a professional tour.

CONT

Assuming that Joe is an average club player, he’ll almost always hit approximately to the same spot from that forehand corner of his. He won’t cross-court half the time and put it down the line or into the center the rest of the time.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
DEF

Joueur ou joueuse de tennis qui, contrairement au «joueur/joueuse de tournoi», joue régulièrement sur les courts dun club et non sur le tour professionnel.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes de raqueta
CONT

[...] el golpe cortado de revés lo están practicando no solamente los jugadores de club y principiantes, sino también los jugadores de torneos [...]

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Record 9 2011-03-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
DEF

A type of forehand shot in which the player runs around his backhand to hit a cross-court forehand into the opponent's backhand side.

OBS

... running around your backhand to hit the inside-out forehand ....

PHR

Slight inside-out forehand.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette

Spanish

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Record 10 2011-03-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
CONT

Mayotte... advances to the net to hit a volley but he does not put enough strength into his stroke and, with the ball landing on his service line, Chang is allowed to move forward and hit a vicious cross-court forehand, well out of Mayotte's reach.

PHR

To dip a cross-court forehand.

Key term(s)
  • crosscourt forehand
  • crosscourt forehand drive
  • crosscourt forehand shot
  • cross-court forehand drive
  • cross-court forehand shot

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
CONT

[...] Agassi s'adjugeait une deuxième manche éclair par un coup droit croisé sur la ligne [...]

Spanish

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Record 11 2011-03-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
CONT

Sampras gained the advantage [in the tiebreaker], earning two set points at 6-4 when he angled a backhand cross-court with Becker at the net.

OBS

Quasi-synonym :cross-court backhand drive. "Shot" is the most general term; "drive" implies a more powerful shot.

PHR

Unreachable cross-court backhand.

Key term(s)
  • cross-court backhand drive
  • crosscourt backhand drive
  • crosscourt backhand shot
  • crosscourt backhand
  • backhand crosscourt shot
  • backhand crosscourt
  • backhand cross court
  • cross backhand stroke

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
CONT

[...] le coloré Australien [...] a finalement marqué le point gagnant en exécutant un revers croisé dévastateur [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes de raqueta
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Record 12 2006-08-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
CONT

Mayotte... advances to the net to hit a volley but he does not put enough strength into his stroke and, with the ball landing on his service line, Chang is allowed to move forward and hit a vicious cross-court forehand, well out of Mayotte's reach.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
DEF

Évaluation de l'espace à l'intérieur duquel un joueur de tennis est en mesure de frapper un retour de balle en tenant compte de la longueur de son bras, de la distance qu'il est raisonnablement en mesure de franchir sur le jeu et de la vitesse de la balle.

Spanish

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Record 13 2002-09-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
DEF

The outside boundaries of the playing surface. Such a line runs from the net to the baseline.

CONT

The singles sidelines are closer to the center of the court than the doubles sidelines.

CONT

Cross-court forehands can be dipped inside the tramlines, driven shots down the line can travel above head height at the net and still drop inside the base-line.

OBS

side line: term also used in badminton and table tennis.

PHR

Doubles sideline (=sideline for doubles match), inner sideline, outer sideline, service sideline, singles sideline (=sideline for singles match).

PHR

To cover a sideline.

PHR

The ball caught/clipped the sideline.

Key term(s)
  • tram line

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
DEF

Ligne délimitant la largeur du terrain.

CONT

Les lignes de côté pour le simple se situent à 4 pi 6 po (1,35 m) à l'intérieur des lignes de côté extrêmes. Ces lignes marquent aussi la limite de la zone de service au double.

OBS

Si qualifié, le terme «ligne de côté» peut être abrégé, p.ex.: «ligne de simple» (= ligne de côté pour le simple), «ligne de double» (=ligne de côté pour le double).

OBS

ligne de côté : employé aussi au tennis de table et au badminton.

OBS

ligne latérale : terme de badminton.

Key term(s)
  • ligne de simple
  • ligne de double

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes de raqueta
DEF

[Línea que traza] los límites laterales de la pista.

CONT

Las líneas que delimitan los extremos y lados de la pista se llaman, respectivamente, «línea de fondo» y «líneas laterales».

PHR

Líneas dobles, líneas individuales (=de sencillos).

OBS

"Línea lateral" se usa para el tenis y "línea de banda" para el tenis y el tenis de mesa.

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Record 14 2000-07-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
CONT

Assuming that Joe is an average club player, he’ll almost always hit approximately to the same spot from that forehand corner of his. He won’t cross-court half the time and put it down the line or into the center the rest of the time.

Key term(s)
  • cross court

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
OBS

Locution connexe : smasher en diagonale.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes de raqueta
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Record 15 1996-01-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
DEF

Small area on the tennis court where a player aims his shots.

CONT

Assuming that Joe is an average club player, he’ll almost always hit approximately to the same spot from that forehand corner of his. He won’t cross-court half the time and put it down the line or into the center the rest of the time.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes de raqueta
CONT

[...] al lanzar la pelota para colocarla en el punto idóneo [...]

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Record 16 1996-01-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
CONT

... when you do volley cross court you must be decisive as it opens up a possible down-the-line passing shot for your opponent, or even a wrong-footing cross-court angle-if he can run down the ball.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
Key term(s)
  • passing en parallèle

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes de raqueta
CONT

[...] una volea cruzada ha de ser definitiva si no desea que su oponente le devuelva un passing-shot paralelo o un golpe cruzado a contrapié.... si es que logra llegar a la pelota.

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Record 17 1996-01-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
OBS

Related phraseology: to fetch, to reach for, to retrieve.

CONT

... when you do volley cross court you must be decisive as it opens up a possible down-the-line passing shot for your opponent, or even a wrong-footing cross-court angle-if he can run down the ball.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
OBS

Phraséologie connexe: courir sur toutes les balles, récupérer, reprendre, attraper.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes de raqueta
CONT

[...] una volea cruzada ha de ser definitiva si no desea que su oponente le devuelva un passing-shot paralelo o un golpe cruzado a contrapié.... si es que logra llegar a la pelota.

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Record 18 1995-10-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
DEF

Type of shot in tennis where the player runs around his backhand to hit a cross-court forehand into the opponent's backhand side.

OBS

... running around your backhand to hit the inside-out forehand ....

Key term(s)
  • inside-out

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
OBS

Terme connexe : coup décentré.

CONT

Un plan de frappe arrière entraîne un décroisé.

Spanish

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