Deck tennis

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Deck tennis is an informal sport that once was frequently played aboard scheduled passenger ships and is still practiced to a small extent. The sport is a hybrid between tennis and quoits, and is played with either the rubber disk of quoits or a similarly-sized rope ring. Rules vary somewhat from place to place, as the sport has no overall governing body and tends to vary widely with the space available to be allocated to it, but it is usually played on a court roughly 40 to 50 feet (11 to 14 m) long and 15 to 20 feet (5 to 7 m) wide and may be played as either as singles or doubles. The midcourt net is usually set higher than that for tennis but lower than that for volleyball.

The rules are as follows: The score is kept in the same way as conventional tennis. The server must serve to the opposite half, and the serve may not touch the net. There are no faults, the server's team loses the point if she fails to keep the serve in or if the serve strikes the net. Only one hand may be used to catch the ring, and a player cannot switch the ring from one hand to another. The ring must be caught cleanly (no bobbles allowed). Only one player per team may touch the ring from the time it enters their side of the court to the time it leaves their side. The ring may never touch the ground during a point. If the ring is thrown poorly resulting in a wobbling motion, the receiving team may call "wobble" before it is touched but still must attempt to catch the ring. If the "wobble" is dropped, the point is replayed. If the ring wobbles but is not touched by the receiving team, the shot is good. If a player ends up on the ground after diving to catch the ring, she must also throw the ring from this position. A player may not advance toward the net after catching the ring, it must be released from the same place it is caught.

This sport is also known by the names Tenni-Koit or Ring Tennis.