Under British rules, a point is scored only if the winner of a rally (exchange, or succession, of shots) was the one who served the ball; if he was not, the winner of the rally becomes the server, and if he wins consecutive rallies he serves consecutively.
Which brings us to the optics of another portrayal of Indigenous Australians at the memorial – the stone gargoyles depicting an Aboriginal man and woman set, consecutively, at the end of two native fauna in the memorial's courtyard.
It's been a privilege to have read consecutively two exceptionally well crafted novels – Jim Crace's Harvest (Picador) and Colum McCann's Transatlantic (Bloomsbury).
The 1+1, programme, therefore, allows students to take two full masters degrees consecutively: a one-year MBA, plus another in virtually any other relevant subject within the university.
Coaches bemoan the "skills gap" with continental or Latin American youngsters.France overhauled its youth system by building the famous Clairefontaine academy in the 1980s, and went on win the World Cup and European Championships consecutively, after years of failure.
In fact it is consecutively.
Each party speaks consecutively, with the firm's computers eavesdropping and translating his words in a matter of seconds.
The Duvaliers, father and son, who ruled Haiti consecutively from 1957 to 1986 resided there the longest, using the sprawling building, twice the size of America's White House, to various sordid ends.
Each of the other charges carries a maximum two-year sentence, which could be made to run consecutively, plus a discharge "with disgrace".
In fact, two calls dialled consecutively from the same spot may connect to two different towers: one close by, the other many miles away.
He therefore became a Gaullist member of parliament, serving five different constituencies consecutively over 23 years.
