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to deliver conclusively a legal document such as a writ or summons.

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The situation must also be taken into consideration--such as fault or no fault, physical condition of the server and receiver, and success of the previous sequence of serves.

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The units of analysis included recording the occurrences of successful and unsuccessful serves, points scored (i.e., the results of the serve), time between serves, total timeouts for each team, and the velocity of each serve.