How it works
Tennis bubble letters on one sideways sheet in Fredoka: a capital T and five small letters, the n twice. Its one ring, the eye of the e, narrows to a dark slit in the Bubble look.
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Calls for the scoreboard
After your first print, open Tennis words in bubble letters. Fifteen / Love, Deuce and Advantage are calls inside a game; Set Point, Match / Point and Break / Point name the big points. A Tiebreak decides a set that reaches six games all, and Game, Set, / Match is the call that ends the contest.
Shots, lines and sign-up sheets
Forehand, Backhand, Volley, Lob, Smash and Drop Shot make a row of shot posters, with Topspin beside them; Baseline and Service / Line label a court diagram. Singles, Doubles and Mixed / Doubles head sign-up sheets, Clay Court, Grass Court and Hard Court name the surface, and Racket and Chair / Umpire mark a rack and a seat.
- Lob, three letters, prints about three times as tall as Grass Court, the longest line in the row.
- Tennis keeps its full size over Team or Club. Tryouts is wider than Tennis, so Tennis / Tryouts prints both lines smaller.
- Typed in capitals, TENNIS prints a little smaller and has no ring at all: none of its letters closes a loop.
Questions and answers
How do you draw tennis in bubble letters?
Pencil T, e, n, n, i, s with wide gaps. Round every stroke into a fat outline, make the two n's a matching pair, keep a small eye in the e and a round dot on the i, then rub out the pencil.
What does love mean in tennis?
Zero, so 15–0 is called fifteen-love. The word is thought to come from l'oeuf, French for the egg, meaning nothing.
What is deuce in tennis?
A score of 40–40 in a game. From deuce a player usually has to win two points in a row to take the game; the player who wins the first of them has the advantage.