service line

noun

Tennis. the rear boundary of a service court.
a line running parallel to the front wall in certain court games, as handball or squash, that marks a boundary of the service area.

service line

the line at the back of the court behind which the server must stand when serving
a line indicating the boundary of a permissible service, as on the backwall of a squash court

First recorded in 1870–75

A call to its customer service line led to a full voicemail box.

Subsequently the distance of the service line from the net was fixed at 21-ft., and the height of the net at 3-ft.

This defect was remedied in 1878 by bringing the service line four feet nearer the net, from twenty-six feet to twenty-two feet.

That point marks the end of the service line, and a straight line drawn across it will intersect in the middle the diagonal lines.

It is a good plan, when serving from the right-hand court, to aim for the spot where the centre line bisects the service-line.

Throw the switch over to the service line, and your accumulator is ready to furnish light if you turn on your lamps.

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