HOW TO MARK OUT A LAWN TENNIS COURT
The following are the laws laid down by the Lawn Tennis Association for the year 1907.
SINGLE-HANDED COURT
FULL COURT
For the single-handed game, the court is 27 feet in width, and 78 feet in length. It is divided across the middle by a net, the ends of which are attached to the tops of two posts, which stand 3 feet outside the court on each side. The height of the net is 3 feet 6 inches at the posts, and 3 feet in the centre. At each end of the court, parallel with the net, and at a distance of 39 feet from it, are drawn the Base Lines, the extremities of which are connected by the Side Lines. Half-way between the Side Lines, and parallel with them, is drawn the Half-Court Line, dividing the space on each side of the net into two equal parts, called the Right and Left Courts. On each side of the net, at a distance of 21 feet from it, and parallel with it, are drawn the Service Lines. The marking of the part of the Half-Court Line, between the Service Lines and the Base Line, may be omitted, with the exception of a small portion at the centre of each Base Line, as indicated in the plans.
The plan here given is not the most generally used, but it may be the best adapted to the ground or to the requirements of the owner of the garden.
For the three-handed and four handed games, the court is 36 feet in width. Within the Side-Lines, at a distance of 4¼ feet from them, and parallel with them, are drawn the Service Side Lines. In other respects, the court is similar to that which is described for a single-handed game (Fig. 1).
Fig. 2 is the plan most generally used in private grounds; it is usual to continue the “Service Side Lines” as far as the Base-Lines, as shown in the dotted line B in the plan.