An NBA and official NCAA (college) court is 94 ft long and 50 ft wide. A High School court is 84 ft long and 50 ft wide.

A Junior High court is 74 ft long and 42 ft wide. Half court is well.. half the distance of the full court.. (I know, I didn't need to add that) The free throw line is always 15 ft from the line to the backboard The distance from the ground to the rim is 10 ft. The 3 point arc in the NBA is 22ft to the center of the rim on the sides ( the arc starts 5 ft 3 in from the baseline, being a straight line until that point) then the curved part of the arc is 23ft. 9 in. from the center of the rim. The 3 point arc in college and high school is 19 ft 9 in. (The straight part extends 63 in out from the baseline before the arc begins). The key is 12 feet wide (the width of the free throw line) the backboard should extend 4 feet out over the baseline. The 12 ft wide free throw line forms the center of a circle with a 6 ft radius. The backboard is 72 inches wide by 42 inches high and has an 18 inch diameter rim. The inner square is marked above the rim in a rectangle of 24 inches wide and 18 inches high. The line markings are white and 2 inches wide.

Racquet sports go back many centuries. Over nets or off walls, indoors or out, one country and people to the next, it was only logical that a popular global racquet sport would evolve into what we now call tennis. In some places it is still referred to as lawn tennis, since it was first played on the lawns of Victorian England. That is where this chapter in sports history begins. The true grand parent of lawn tennis is the centuries-old game of Royal or Court tennis. At one point there were so many courts and players, legislation was necessary to curtail the amount of time everybody was playing (and subsequently wagering on) the pastime. It was a mess, but evidently lots of fun! Around 1873, a patented game sprang out of nobleman's party mood one dreary day in Wales, and the new and improved game of lawn tennis captured the countryside. Indoor court tennis was now professed to be much more funs outdoors, and with the opposite sex no less. Standardized rules, however, were a total magilla. It wasn't until the All England Croquet Club experimented with the first organized tournament, and new set of rules, that the show really got rolling. A couple of summers after lawn tennis took off with the upper crust, a leading group of court tennis enthusiasts spent weekends at a castle retreat called Lullingstone. They hammered out how the game was played and improved it through testing the various boundaries of the court and net. At Wimbledon 1877, the first serve was cracked underhanded, and the extravaganza we know today as the most prestigious tennis tournament in the world got its humble start. 125 years later, the heart of the game still relies on those initial rules.

You need to find a suitable piece of grass to play grass tennis backyard. The grass lawn tennis court should be at least sixteen feet wide, and thirty or so feet long. A backyard is private and good place to start, but if you want go to a park with a giant field, where there won't be a problem.

The best case scenario is that you go out to your local hardware store and buy a mini-net. Wilson sells a great mini net, perfect for lawn tennis. But if can't find a store that holds that, a badminton net or small volleyball net is just as good. Set it up so its not more than a few feet off the ground.

Create boundaries. Make the width the lawn tennis court is not any wider than the net itself. The length is up to your own discretion. Usually the best is way to set up your backyard lawn tennis court is to make it just as wide as the net (a perfect square), but you can make it longer or wider if you want. The outlines for a backyard lawn tennis court? Just some shoes or anything that is a good designator. Nothing fancy.

Rules:

You're ready to go. Take your racket and ball and step onto that backyard lawn tennis court.

The ball can only bounce once on your opponents side. If it bounces twice its your point. If the ball goes out or doesn't go over the net, it's your opponents point.

To start the point, just simply underhand hit the ball over the net onto the other side of the lawn tennis court. Make it an easy point; if its a winner just redo the point. Each player serve twice and than switch. Games up to 11. Regularly play best out of three. Switch sides each game.

The Fun Part:

Lawn tennis is tennis but on a much smaller scale. The ball doesn't bounce as high, and you can't hit it as hard. The result is a game with long, intense rallies, with lots of diving and last ditch amazing shots. Backyard lawn tennis is a highlight reel game that can be played by people of all ages and of all skill levels. If you want to up the ante a little bit, you can serve like real tennis - in other words serving over hand. Use the same lawn tennis materials, but make the length of lawn tennis court longer. Tennis is a sport usually played between two players (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all ages. The sport can be played by anyone who can hold a racket, including people in wheelchairs. The modern game of tennis originated in Birmingham, England in the late 19th century as "lawn tennis" which has close connections to various field/lawn games as well as to the ancient game of real tennis. Up to then, "tennis" referred to the latter sport: for example, in Disraeli's novel Sybil (1845), Lord Eugene De Vere announces that he will "go down to Hampton Court and play tennis. As it is theDerby [classic horse race], nobody will be there".[1] After its creation, lawn tennis spread throughout the upper-class English-speaking population before spreading around the world.[2] The rules of tennis have not changed much since the 1890s. Two exceptions are that from 1908 to 1961 the server had to keep one foot on the ground at all times, and the adoption of the tie-break in the 1970s. A recent addition to professional tennis has been the adoption of electronic review technology coupled with a point challenge system, which allows a player to challenge the line (or chair) umpire's call of a point. Players have unlimited opportunities to challenge provided the challenges made are correct. However, once three incorrect challenges are made in a set, they cannot challenge again until the next set. If the set goes to a tie break, players are given one additional opportunity to challenge the call. This electronic review, currently called Hawk-Eye, is available at a limited number of high-level ATP and WTA tournaments. Tennis is enjoyed by millions of recreational players and is also a hugely popular worldwide spectator sport, especially the four Grand Slamtournaments (also referred to as the "Majors"): the Australian Open played on hard courts, the French Open played on red clay courts,Wimbledon played on grass courts, and the US Open played also on hard courts.