You'd prefer to have service in it (6)

I believe the answer is:

tennis

(Other definitions for tennis that I've seen before include "Court-based sport" , "Game of the Williams sisters and of Roger Federer" , "Sent in (anag.)" , "Real or lawn game" , "Sent in, strangely, for sport" .)

I've seen this clue in The New York Times.

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