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Ball boys/girls are individuals, usually youths, who retrieve balls for players or officials in sports such as association football, American football, cricket, tennis, baseball and basketball. Though non-essential, their activities help to speed up play by reducing the amount of inactive time.
Due to the nature of the sport, quick retrieval of loose balls and delivery of the game balls to the servers are necessary for quick play in tennis. In professional tournaments every court will have a trained squad of ball boys/girls with positionings and movements designed for maximum efficiency, whilst also not interfering with active play. As well as dealing with the game balls, ball boys/girls may also provide the players with other assistance, such as the delivery of towels and drinks.
Ball boys were first introduced at Wimbledon in 1920. From 1920 until 1930 they were provided by Shaftesbury Homes. Since 1946, ball boys are chosen from schools as volunteers. Initially boys only, ball girls were introduced at Wimbledon in 1977.
A ball is a round, usually spherical but sometimes ovoid, object with various uses. It is used in ball games, where the play of the game follows the state of the ball as it is hit, kicked or thrown by players. Balls can also be used for simpler activities, such as catch, marbles and juggling. Balls made from hard-wearing materials are used in engineering applications to provide very low friction bearings, known as ball bearings. Black powder weapons use stone and metal balls as projectiles.
Although many types of balls are today made from rubber, this form was unknown outside the Americas until after the voyages of Columbus. The Spanish were the first Europeans to see bouncing rubber balls (albeit solid and not inflated) which were employed most notably in the Mesoamerican ballgame. Balls used in various sports in other parts of the world prior to Columbus were made from other materials such as animal bladders or skins, stuffed with various materials.
As balls are one of the most familiar spherical objects to humans, the word "ball" is used to refer to, or to describe, anything spherical or near-spherical.
A boy is a young male human, usually child or adolescent. When he becomes an adult he's described as a man. The most apparent thing that differentiates a boy from a girl is that a boy typically has a penis while girls do not. However some intersex children with ambiguous genitals, and biologically female transgender children, may also be classified or self-identify as a "boy".
The term "boy" is primarily used to indicate biological sex distinctions, cultural gender role distinctions or both. The latter most commonly applies to adult men, either considered in some way immature or inferior, in a position associated with aspects of boyhood, or even without such boyish connotation as age-indiscriminate synonym. The term can be joined with a variety of other words to form these gender-related labels as compound words.
The word "boy" comes from Middle English boi, boye ("boy, servant"), related to other Germanic words for boy, namely East Frisian boi ("boy, young man") and West Frisian boai ("boy"). Though the exact etymology is obscure, the English and Frisian forms probably derive from an earlier Anglo-Frisian *bō-ja ("little brother"), a diminutive of the Germanic root *bō- ("brother, male relation"), from Proto-Indo-European *bhā-, *bhāt- ("father, brother"). The root is also found in Flemish boe ("brother"), Norwegian dialectal boa ("brother"), and, through a reduplicated variant *bō-bō-, in Old Norse bófi, Dutch boef "(criminal) knave, rogue", German Bube ("knave, rogue, boy"). Furthermore, the word may be related to Bōia, an Anglo-Saxon personal name.
Actors: Alexandra Paul (actress), Sarah Lilly (actress), Russ Howard III (composer), Benjamin R. Reder (producer), Noor Ahmed (producer), Josh Cooke (actor), Scott Butler (actor), Keith Coulouris (actor), Michael M. McGuire (miscellaneous crew), Mark Elias (actor), Michael M. McGuire (miscellaneous crew), Michael M. McGuire (actor), Steven Christopher Parker (actor), Michelle Page (actress), Adam Lipsius (director),
Plot: Teenager Ally "Smash" Mash lives between the carefully painted white lines of junior tennis. Unbeaten and about to go pro, a twisted ankle intervenes, and she shows a lazy rival what it takes to win, and he shows her how to live off of the court.
Keywords: affection, american, attraction, beach, beach-party, best-friend, boy-meets-girl, bully-comeuppance, championship, coachActors: Alexandra Paul (actress), Sarah Lilly (actress), Russ Howard III (composer), Benjamin R. Reder (producer), Noor Ahmed (producer), Josh Cooke (actor), Scott Butler (actor), Keith Coulouris (actor), Michael M. McGuire (miscellaneous crew), Mark Elias (actor), Michael M. McGuire (miscellaneous crew), Michael M. McGuire (actor), Steven Christopher Parker (actor), Michelle Page (actress), Adam Lipsius (director),
Plot: Teenager Ally "Smash" Mash lives between the carefully painted white lines of junior tennis. Unbeaten and about to go pro, a twisted ankle intervenes, and she shows a lazy rival what it takes to win, and he shows her how to live off of the court.
Keywords: affection, american, attraction, beach, beach-party, best-friend, boy-meets-girl, bully-comeuppance, championship, coachActors: Alexandra Paul (actress), Sarah Lilly (actress), Russ Howard III (composer), Benjamin R. Reder (producer), Noor Ahmed (producer), Josh Cooke (actor), Scott Butler (actor), Keith Coulouris (actor), Michael M. McGuire (miscellaneous crew), Mark Elias (actor), Michael M. McGuire (miscellaneous crew), Michael M. McGuire (actor), Steven Christopher Parker (actor), Michelle Page (actress), Adam Lipsius (director),
Plot: Teenager Ally "Smash" Mash lives between the carefully painted white lines of junior tennis. Unbeaten and about to go pro, a twisted ankle intervenes, and she shows a lazy rival what it takes to win, and he shows her how to live off of the court.
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Plot: Teenager Ally "Smash" Mash lives between the carefully painted white lines of junior tennis. Unbeaten and about to go pro, a twisted ankle intervenes, and she shows a lazy rival what it takes to win, and he shows her how to live off of the court.
Keywords: affection, american, attraction, beach, beach-party, best-friend, boy-meets-girl, bully-comeuppance, championship, coachActors: Stefan Sundlöf (editor), Saga Gärde (actress), Geir Hansteen Jorgensen (writer), Geir Hansteen Jorgensen (producer), Geir Hansteen Jorgensen (composer), Geir Hansteen Jorgensen (director), Levi Blad (actor), Helen Aneheim (actor),
Plot: A 14 year old ball boy assists a professional, beautiful tennis player woman. She trains serves with his heart as tennis ball. Obligingly he gets his heart in the gravel, serve after serve. Tennis is a non-narrative short/artfilm. It investigates the repetitive and through the obvious symbolic, humor.
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Short, Sport,Actors: Alexandra Paul (actress), Sarah Lilly (actress), Russ Howard III (composer), Benjamin R. Reder (producer), Noor Ahmed (producer), Josh Cooke (actor), Scott Butler (actor), Keith Coulouris (actor), Michael M. McGuire (miscellaneous crew), Mark Elias (actor), Michael M. McGuire (miscellaneous crew), Michael M. McGuire (actor), Steven Christopher Parker (actor), Michelle Page (actress), Adam Lipsius (director),
Plot: Teenager Ally "Smash" Mash lives between the carefully painted white lines of junior tennis. Unbeaten and about to go pro, a twisted ankle intervenes, and she shows a lazy rival what it takes to win, and he shows her how to live off of the court.
Keywords: affection, american, attraction, beach, beach-party, best-friend, boy-meets-girl, bully-comeuppance, championship, coachActors: Alexandra Paul (actress), Sarah Lilly (actress), Russ Howard III (composer), Benjamin R. Reder (producer), Noor Ahmed (producer), Josh Cooke (actor), Scott Butler (actor), Keith Coulouris (actor), Michael M. McGuire (miscellaneous crew), Mark Elias (actor), Michael M. McGuire (miscellaneous crew), Michael M. McGuire (actor), Steven Christopher Parker (actor), Michelle Page (actress), Adam Lipsius (director),
Plot: Teenager Ally "Smash" Mash lives between the carefully painted white lines of junior tennis. Unbeaten and about to go pro, a twisted ankle intervenes, and she shows a lazy rival what it takes to win, and he shows her how to live off of the court.
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Genres: Comedy,Actors: Nathaniel DeVeaux (actor), Rachael Leigh Cook (actress), Crystal Lowe (actress), Sylvester Stallone (actor), Frank Stallone (actor), Tom Sizemore (actor), Mickey Rourke (actor), Michael Caine (actor), John Cassini (actor), Tyler Labine (actor), Mark Boone Junior (actor), Garwin Sanford (actor), John C. McGinley (actor), Miranda Richardson (actress), Alan Cumming (actor),
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Keywords: affair, alcohol, bar-brawl, bar-fight, based-on-novel, beaten-to-death, beating, blood, body-landing-on-a-car, box-office-flopActors: Michael Wearing (producer), Perry Benson (actor), Graham Fletcher-Cook (actor), Kate Hardie (actress), David Sibley (actor), Cathy Murphy (actress), Gary Beadle (actor), Suzette Llewellyn (actress), Alan Clarke (director), Michael Hastings (writer), Paul McKenzie (actor), Christina Greatrex (actress), Catherine Clarke (actress), Bernice Rowe (actress),
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