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Definition of Double fault
1. Noun. (tennis) two successive faults in serving resulting in the loss of the point.
Definition of Double fault
1. Noun. (tennis) The missing of both the first serve and second serve, resulting in a point for the receiver. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Double Fault
Literary usage of Double fault
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Methods and Players of Modern Lawn Tennis by Jahial Parmly Paret (1922)
"Risk double fault Rather Than Weak Second pert who was in America some years ago.
... It is better to risk a double fault than to offer so weak a second ..."
2. Petroleum and Natural Gas in Indiana: A Preliminary Report by William Newton Logan (1920)
"This depression may have resulted from a double fault or may be an old ...
The principal objections to the view of a double fault are two—at no point was a ..."
3. Works by Jean Calvin, Calvin translation society (1853)
"There was a double fault or defect, which is explained in Rom. yin. ... This double
fault or weakness more fully sets forth the excellency of ..."
4. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India by Geological Survey of India (1872)
"Beneath these come the beds on the south side of the double fault before mentioned,
all the rocks exhibiting abundance of oblique lamination. the river ..."
5. The Wright & Ditson Officially Adopted Lawn Tennis Guide. edited by Joseph T Whittelsey, Irving C Wright (1893)
"The vantage game went to Campbell by the inaccurate drives of Hovey, and in a
similar manner, aided by a double fault of Hovey, Campbell took the twelfth ..."
6. The Book of School and College Sports by Ralph Henry Barbour (1904)
"LAWN TENNIS of the opponent's service-line; double fault for the server; ...
No double fault for him again. He sends the next ball away with a nice slow ..."
7. Lawn Tennis for Ladies by Lambert Chambers (1910)
"I served double fault after double fault (I learnt afterwards that I gave away
sixteen points in this way), and my friends told me that it was a relief to ..."
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