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Record 1,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Spin produced by hitting over the ball, i.e. brushing the racket face up and over the ball, causing it to rotate forward.  5, record 1, English, - topspin

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Also refers to the stroke which not only imparts such a spin on the ball, it also causes it to dip in flight. Top spin is used extensively to pass opponents attacking at the net.  5, record 1, English, - topspin

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 2 OBS

Warning: the term "overspin" in many contexts could also refer to "excessive underspin" - a completely different concept. The term "lift" is rarely heard today.  5, record 1, English, - topspin

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 PHR

Backhand, forehand, heavy, one-handed, severe topspin.  5, record 1, English, - topspin

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 2 PHR

To apply, impart topspin. To hit a topspin.  5, record 1, English, - topspin

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 3 PHR

To put topspin on the ball.  5, record 1, English, - topspin

Record 1,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Effet donné à la balle frappée par dessous de bas en haut, qui aura un rebond plus haut et plus long, car elle tourne sur elle-même dans le sens de sa course. Qualité passagère d'une balle qui a une forte rotation d'avant en arrière.  7, record 1, French, - effet%20vers%20l%27avant

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 CONT

La raquette légèrement fermée en dedans pour coiffer la balle et lui imprimer un lift.  7, record 1, French, - effet%20vers%20l%27avant

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 2 CONT

Le brossé permet [...] un meilleur contrôle de la distance car on peut même frapper fort dans la partie avant du terrain adverse comme lors d'un «passing shot» (ce qui est impossible sans le brossé).  3, record 1, French, - effet%20vers%20l%27avant

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 PHR

Imprimer un (fort) effet brossé.  8, record 1, French, - effet%20vers%20l%27avant

Record 1,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Acción de abajo-arriba que se imprime a la pelota. Se utiliza para controlar la pelota y para darle potencia al golpe.  1, record 1, Spanish, - efecto%20de%20rotaci%C3%B3n%20hacia%20adelante

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Existe naturalmente el efecto liftado, que es, como se sabe, el que produce un avance de la pelota en sentido de la misma dirección que va a llevar, que se origina al realizar una especie de raspado con las cuerdas en la pelota, de abajo hacia arriba; aquí, más que de abajo hacia arriba, es un poco de un lado a otro [...]  5, record 1, Spanish, - efecto%20de%20rotaci%C3%B3n%20hacia%20adelante

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 PHR

Imprimir un efecto (liftado).  1, record 1, Spanish, - efecto%20de%20rotaci%C3%B3n%20hacia%20adelante

Record 2,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 DEF

A type of stroke that not only imparts a forward spin on the ball, it also causes it to dip in flight.  3, record 2, English, - topspin%20drive

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 OBS

See "drive" and "shot" for more in-depth information concerning the nuances between these two terms. Briefly, a "drive" implies a hard-hit ball, whereas "shot" is neutral, i.e. it makes no statement as to the force or speed of the ball. The distinction between these two terms is sadly not always made in the media.  3, record 2, English, - topspin%20drive

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 CONT

For the top spin lob, the racket technique is an exaggerated version of the topspin drive. The loop of the racket is more pronounced and the stroke is played with less pace through the ball.  1, record 2, English, - topspin%20drive

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 2 OBS

topspin shot: also a table tennis term.  4, record 2, English, - topspin%20drive

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 PHR

Backhand, brush, forehand, one-handed topspin drive.  3, record 2, English, - topspin%20drive

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To hit a topspin drive.  3, record 2, English, - topspin%20drive

Record 2,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Coup imprimant à la balle une rotation avant.  3, record 2, French, - coup%20bross%C3%A9

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Réalisation technique d'un coup droit ou d'un revers lifté.  4, record 2, French, - coup%20bross%C3%A9

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 OBS

coup lifté : terme employé aussi au tennis de table.  5, record 2, French, - coup%20bross%C3%A9

Record 2,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 CONT

El mejor golpe para el passing [cuando está en buena posición] es el golpe liftado.  2, record 2, Spanish, - golpe%20liftado

Record 3,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 DEF

A deep shot usually initiated from midcourt that gives a player enough time to move toward the net and set up for a first volley; this may be a topspin drive or a slice shot depending on the player’s preference.  3, record 3, English, - approach%20shot

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Sometimes "approach shot" is used synonymously with the more specific term "forcing shot", especially in reference to a hard drive rather than a sliced shot after which a player may advance to the net.  3, record 3, English, - approach%20shot

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 PHR

Depth on an approach shot.  3, record 3, English, - approach%20shot

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 2 PHR

Attack, backhand, crisp, deep, flat, forehand, short, slice, sneak, solid, stop and hit, topspin, underspin, well-placed approach shot.  3, record 3, English, - approach%20shot

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 3 PHR

To aim, attack, attack behind, contact, develop, drive, execute, guide, hit, land, neglect, place, plan, play, practice, return, scatter, set up, sharpen, toss, underspin an approach shot.  3, record 3, English, - approach%20shot

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 4 PHR

To hit an approach shot flat. To hit an approach shot with topspin. To hit an approach shot with underspin. To approach shot bounces.  3, record 3, English, - approach%20shot

Record 3,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 DEF

[...] coup effectué à mi-terrain permettant au joueur de monter au filet, que ce soit à la volée ou après rebond court de la balle.  3, record 3, French, - coup%20d%27approche

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Coup d'approche lifté, plat, à contre-pied.  2, record 3, French, - coup%20d%27approche

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 PHR

Couper un coup d'approche.  2, record 3, French, - coup%20d%27approche

Record 3,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 DEF

[Golpe] ejecutado para preparar la subida a la red.  1, record 3, Spanish, - golpe%20de%20aproximaci%C3%B3n

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Aproximación. Se trata de cualquier golpe con que se prepara la subida a la red. Puede ser tanto cruzado como paralelo o al centro.  1, record 3, Spanish, - golpe%20de%20aproximaci%C3%B3n

Record 4,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 4, Textual support number: 1 DEF

A type of topspin serve hit with a combination of topspin and sidespin. The ball not only takes a high bounce, it also flies in a direction opposite of what one would normally expect it to.  4, record 4, English, - American%20twist%20serve

Record number: 4, Textual support number: 1 CONT

An exageration of the topspin serve turns the service into a kick service or "American twist". A right-hander’s American twist serve puts left-to-right spin on the ball. Such a serve can present difficulties for the receiver, particularly on grass where the bounce could be tricky.  4, record 4, English, - American%20twist%20serve

Record number: 4, Textual support number: 1 OBS

The "kick serve" is also called the "kicker". It became known as the "american twist" or "american twist serve" in the first Davis Cup match in 1900 when the finalists, Holcombe Ward, a Harvard man, and his college friend, Dwight Davis, used the stroke they had developed to beat their English opponents.  7, record 4, English, - American%20twist%20serve

Record number: 4, Textual support number: 2 CONT

If the kick serve is correctly delivered it can often be followed in so as to make your next shot the volley you might have tried on a successful power serve ... Try to mix the angle of [your] serves and watch for weaknesses in your opponent, e.g., a backhand to a high-kicking serve is not easily played at club standard.  6, record 4, English, - American%20twist%20serve

Record 4,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 4, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Service brossé où la balle rebondit haut et dans la direction opposée à son mouvement original.  2, record 4, French, - service%20twist%C3%A9

Record number: 4, Textual support number: 1 OBS

On l'appelle aussi à tort «service lifté».  2, record 4, French, - service%20twist%C3%A9

Record number: 4, Textual support number: 2 OBS

Termes connexes : service brossé ou service lifté (ou service à effet toppé).  1, record 4, French, - service%20twist%C3%A9

Record 4,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 5,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 5, Textual support number: 1 DEF

An attacking shot to counteract another attacking short.  1, record 5, English, - counter%2Dattacking%20shot

Record number: 5, Textual support number: 1 OBS

counterattack: term also used in table tennis.  2, record 5, English, - counter%2Dattacking%20shot

Record number: 5, Textual support number: 2 OBS

Related term: reply.  3, record 5, English, - counter%2Dattacking%20shot

Record number: 5, Textual support number: 1 CONT

If your opponent is at the net and you can not make an effective passing shot, it is best to throw up a defensive lob. On the other hand, if you are well balanced and your opponent is not crowding the net, you may elect to hit a counter-attacking shot that may be a passing short or a topspin lob.  1, record 5, English, - counter%2Dattacking%20shot

Record 5,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 5, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Lorsqu'on réplique à une balle d'attaque à la suite d'une balle rapide ou précise ou que l'on déjoue un joueur en position au filet. [Phraséologie connexe : riposte, retour offensif.]  2, record 5, French, - coup%20de%20contre%2Dattaque

Record number: 5, Textual support number: 2 OBS

coup de contre-attaque : terme [également] employé au tennis de table.  1, record 5, French, - coup%20de%20contre%2Dattaque

Record 5,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 6,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 6, Textual support number: 1 CONT

The ball hit the tape... because of topspin, it rolled over the tape and fell into the opposing court.  4, record 6, English, - net%20band

Record number: 6, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Not to be confused with "center strap" or "netco rd". "Tape", a polysemous term even in tennis, can also denote the strip of material fixed onto a claycourt surface to mark off the lines.  4, record 6, English, - net%20band

Record 6,  Textual support,  French

Record 6,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record number: 6, Textual support number: 1 CONT

[La red] debe haber también una franja de tela, que cubra la cuerda o cable metálico y la parte superior de la red, formando en cada lado una franja no menor de 0,05 m ni mayor de 0,063 m (2 pulgadas y 2 pulgadas y media).  1, record 6, Spanish, - franja%20de%20tela

Record number: 6, Textual support number: 2 CONT

Si la pelota servida toca un accesorio permanente que no sea la red, la cincha o la faja de tela, antes de botar en el suelo [...]  1, record 6, Spanish, - franja%20de%20tela

Record number: 6, Textual support number: 3 CONT

[La devolución es buena si] ni el jugador ni parte alguna de su indumentaria, ni su raqueta, toquen la red, los palos, la cuerda o cable metálico, la cincha, la franja de lona o la parte de la pista que corresponde a su adversario, y la pelota sea devuelta «buena».  1, record 6, Spanish, - franja%20de%20tela

Record 7,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 7, Textual support number: 1 DEF

To apply or impart topspin to a tennis ball.  1, record 7, English, - hit%20over

Record number: 7, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Watch out for the prepositions : to put topspin on a ball=to brush/hit over the ball=to apply topspin to the ball. Related terms :topspin, topspin ball, lift, forward spin.  1, record 7, English, - hit%20over

Record number: 7, Textual support number: 2 OBS

To top a ball: To impart topspin to a ball.  1, record 7, English, - hit%20over

Record 7,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 7, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Imprimer un effet de forte rotation d'avant en arrière à la balle en la frappant verticalement avec le haut de la raquette.  6, record 7, French, - lifter

Record number: 7, Textual support number: 1 OBS

L'anglicisme «lifter» est répandu dans le monde du tennis. Dans la plupart des contextes, le terme «brosser», terme plus générique que «lifter», a le même sens que celui-ci, mais au point de vue sémantique il peut signifier aussi «couper». Verbes connexes : fouetter la balle, recouvrir la balle.  6, record 7, French, - lifter

Record number: 7, Textual support number: 1 CONT

[...] un joueur qui lifte presque toutes ses balles usera plus rapidement son cordage qu'un joueur qui frappe à plat.  7, record 7, French, - lifter

Record number: 7, Textual support number: 2 CONT

La raquette vient coiffer la balle, lui imprimant beaucoup de lift.  8, record 7, French, - lifter

Record number: 7, Textual support number: 3 CONT

Il ne faut jamais lifter une volée [...] Il y aura intérêt à servir plat plutôt que lifté [...]  8, record 7, French, - lifter

Record number: 7, Textual support number: 4 CONT

Sur les balles hautes on a tendance à coiffer la balle, c'est le top spin.  9, record 7, French, - lifter

Record number: 7, Textual support number: 5 CONT

[...] le joueur moyen a souvent davantage confiance en son coup droit et cherche à tourner son revers, qu'il considère comme un coup plus difficile.  4, record 7, French, - lifter

Record number: 7, Textual support number: 1 PHR

frapper fort en brossé.  6, record 7, French, - lifter

Record 7,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record number: 7, Textual support number: 1 OBS

se trata de una pelota.  2, record 7, Spanish, - golpear%20liftada

Record number: 7, Textual support number: 1 CONT

[...] recuérdese que [...] una pelota muy baja es imposible de golpear liftada, porque necesitamos una altura mínima para dar ese giro brusco de muñeca hacia delante y hacia arriba, con lo cual una altura excesiva nos complicaría igualmente para ejecutar un movimiento liftado.  1, record 7, Spanish, - golpear%20liftada

Record 8,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 8, Textual support number: 1 CONT

... final between [Becker and Lendl, Becker] shows how to break the rhythm with a topspin forehand, hit on the run, to Lendl in the forecourt. The pace of the dip on the ball causes Lendl to mistime his stroke.  2, record 8, English, - hit%20on%20the%20run

Record number: 8, Textual support number: 2 CONT

To hit the ball on the (dead) run.  3, record 8, English, - hit%20on%20the%20run

Record 8,  Textual support,  French

Record 8,  Textual support,  Spanish