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Pickleball Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A shot that travels outside the net posts, allowing its trajectory to stay below the height of the net | ATP (Around The Net) |
| The line at the back of the pickleball court | Baseline |
| The line bisecting the service courts that extends from the non-volley line to the baseline | Centerline |
| The opponent's court diagonally opposite a player's | Crosscourt |
| A soft shot, made with the paddle face open, and hit so that it just clears the net and drops into the non-volley zone | Dink |
| A volley hit near the net by a player positioned outside the court or in the process of leaping outside the court | Erne |
| An infringement of the rules that ends the rally | Fault |
| Stepping on or into the non-volley zone while volleying a ball, or, while serving, failure to keep both feet behind the baseline with at least one foot in contact with the ground or floor when the paddle contacts the balll | Foot fault |
| A type of hit where the player hits the ball immediately after it has bounced in an almost scoop-like fashion | Half-volley |
| The non-volley zone which is seven feet from the net on both sides | Kitchen |
| Hitting the ball in a high arc to the back of the opponent's court. Ideally designed to clear an opponent who has advanced toward the net | Lob |
| A serve that touches the top of the net and lands in the proper service court | Net Serve |
| A seven foot area adjacent to the net within which you may not volley the ball | Non-volley zone |
| In doubles, to cross over into your partner's area to make a play on the ball | Poach |
| Hitting the ball back and forth between opposite teams | Rally |
| An underarm lob or drive stroke used to put a ball into play at the beginning of a point | Serve |
| When playing doubles, either "1" or "2", depending on whether you are the first or second server for your side | Server number |
| The line at the side of the court denoting in and out-of-bounds | Sideline |
| When the serve moves to your opponent's side | Side-out |
| To hit the ball before it touches the ground and bounces | Volley |
| Pickleball combines what 3 sports | Tennis, badminton, table tennis |
| The ball used in pickleball is similar to what | Wiffle ball |
| The court of pickleball has the same layout and dimensions of what other court | Badminton court |
| They attempted to play badminton, but no one could fin the _______ so they improvised with a _______ | shuttlecock, wiffle ball |
| The court is _____ by _____ feet | 20, 44 |
| The net is ____inches on the ends and ____ inches at the center | 36 |
| Define the "Double-bounce Rule" | The receiving team must let the serve bounce and the serving team must let the return of the serve bounce before playing it |