Sport {badminton}| can be like tennis and use a shuttlecock {birdie, badminton} and light rackets.
Sport {paddle tennis}| can use short rackets to hit a ball against a wall.
Sport {squash rackets}| like can use small string rackets to hit a ball against a wall.
Sport {Ping-Pong} {table tennis}| can use paddles to hit a small hollow ball over a net on a table.
Sport {tennis}| can use rackets and a medium-size felt-covered ball, on a court with a waist-high net. For a game, one player serves into alternating right and left service courts, to win or lose points. Player score can be no points {love, tennis}, 15 for first point, 30 for second point, 40 for third point, or one point ahead in tiebreaker {advantage, tennis}. If both players have 40, score is a tie {deuce, tennis}. To win game, player must win at least 4 points and be 2 points ahead. To win set {set, tennis}, player must win at least six games and be two games ahead. Alternatively, if both players have won six games, they can play a tiebreaker. To win match {match, tennis}, player must win two sets out of three or three sets out of five.
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