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Tennis terms explained

Last updated on Sep 18, 2026

What's a walkover? A bagel? Leapfrog? We keep a plain-English tennis glossary at tennisladder.co.uk/glossary — the words the app uses (ladder, defend or drop, wildcard, box league, Fast4, Court Coins, Predictor League), the scoring (love, deuce, tiebreak, match tiebreak), the court, the shots, the player types you'll meet on a Saturday, and the wider game (UTR, seeds, draws, plates).

Every term is a sentence or two, written for club players, and the app's own words link to where they live. Share the page with a new member, or settle an argument at the bar.