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Definition of Footfault
1. Noun. A fault that occurs when the server in tennis fails to keep both feet behind the baseline.
Definition of Footfault
1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Footfault
Literary usage of Footfault
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Art of Lawn Tennis by William Tatem Tilden (1922)
"I can only say that a footfault is crossing or touching the line with either foot
before the ball is delivered, or it is a jump or step. ..."
2. Modern Tennis by P. A. Vaile (1917)
"Many people, even experienced players, are under the impression that in order to
make a footfault it is necessary to have one foot on the lino or one foot ..."
3. Tennis as I Play it by Maurice Evans McLoughlin (1915)
"It is this point, which occupies so much more time to describe than it does to
accomplish, that many footfault linesmen fail to note and I am guilty of ..."
4. The Wright & Ditson Officially Adopted Lawn Tennis Guide. edited by Joseph T Whittelsey, Irving C Wright (1915)
"If every Club holding an authorized tournament will make a special effort to
secure for their tournament a "footfault Committee" and will have such ..."
5. The Secrets of Lawn Tennis by F. W. Payn (1906)
"... suffers mishaps which are liable to turn the scale in a close match owing to
the prevailing ignorance of linesmen as to what constitutes a " footfault. ..."
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