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Sports

Of or pertaining to any organized, competitive, entertaining, and skillful activity or game requiring commitment, strategy, and fair play, in which a winner can be defined by objective means within a specified set of rules.

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carve

Sports; Tennis

To hit a groundstroke shot with a combination of sidespin and underspin

challenge

Sports; Tennis

to request the official review of the location where the ball has landed after a shot using the means of electronic ball tracking technology. See Hawk-Eye

challenge round

Sports; Tennis

final round of a tournament, in which the winner of a single-elimination phase faces the previous year's champion, who plays only that one match. The challenge round was used in ...

challenger

Sports; Tennis

A tournament/tour which is one level below the ATP tour. Players compete on the Challenger tour in an effort to gain ranking points which allow them to gain entry to tournaments ...