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Tennis terms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2008

Alexander Tulloch
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Abstract

Favourite etymologies from the world of tennis. At the mere mention of summer most of us think only of one thing: Wimbledon. And at the mere mention of Wimbledon everybody thinks of tennis. A summer without a Wimbledon tennis tournament is just about as unthinkable as fish without chips, Romeo without Juliet or the telly without Coronation Street. For two weeks at the height of summer the nation will be gripped with tennis fever. Matches will be played and replayed on our screens day and night and every volley, fault or service analysed by pundits and experts who convince us they know what they are talking about. But where did this game that spellbinds us for a fortnight come from?

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English Today , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , March 2008 , pp. 63 - 64
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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