Tag: good question

Juniors Tiebreak I was watching an ALTA Juniors 8-game pro set match, and the score reached 7-7. One team said it was time to play...

Foot Fault Clarification There are certain tennis rules that often solicit a gray area, so we are clarifying a recent answer regarding foot faults. A...

Making line calls I recently played in a doubles match where my opponents made two questionable calls. In both cases, the two players “thought” the...

Switching Surfaces Can a home team at a facility that has both clay and hard courts play different lines on different surfaces? Mitch Falkin, Men’s League...

Warm-Up Interrupted At the beginning of a match, team A spins the racquet, and team B wins the spin. Team B then chooses to serve....

Who serves next? During a match, the score was tied 6-6, prompting a tiebreaker to be played. Team A served first in the tiebreaker and...

Cell Phone Etiquette My opponent refused to turn off the ringer of her phone during our match. She also told us that it was allowed...

Accidental Contact During a point in a recent match, all four players made their way to the net and the point resulted in one reflex...

Reaching Too Far? My opponent in doubles hit a ball that fell just on my side of the net. It had lots of spin, bounced...

When Racquets Collide My partner and I were at the net during a point in our doubles match. As we both moved to retrieve a...