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LAWN TENNIS
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one service only shall be replayed;
(b)
When called under any other
circumstance, the point shall be replayed.
13.
The service is a let : (a) If the ball served touch the net, strap
or band, and is otherwise good, or, after touching the net, strap or
band, touch the Receiver or anything which he wears or carries
before hitting the ground;
(b)
If a service or a fault be delivered
when the Receiver is not ready (see Rule
I I).
In case of a let, that
particular service shall not count, and the server shall serve again,
but a service let does not annul a previous fault.
14.
At the end of the first game the Receiver shall become Server,
and the Server Receiver ; and so on alternately in all the subsequent
games of the match. If a player serves out of turn, the player who
ought to have served shall serve as soon as the mistake is discovered,
but all points scored before such discovery shall be reckoned. If a
game shall have been completed before such discovery, the order of
service remains as altered. A fault served before such discovery
shall not be reckoned.
I5.
A ball is in play from the moment at which it is delivered
in service. Unless a fault or a let be called it remains in play until
the point is decided.
16. The Server wins the point : (a) If the ball served, not being
a let under Rule
13,
touch the Receiver or anything which he wears
or carries before it hits the ground;
(b)
If the Receiver otherwise
lose the point as provided by Rule 18.
17.
The Receiver wins the point: (a) If the Server serve two
consecutive faults ; (
b)
If the Server otherwise lose the point as
provided by Rule
I&
z 8. A player loses the point if:
(a) He fail, before the ball in play has hit the ground twice
consecutively, to return it directly over the net (except as
,provided in Rule
22
(a) or (c) ) ; or
(b)
He return the ball in play so that it hits the ground, a
permanent fixture, or other object, outside any of the lines
which bound his opponent's Court (except as provided in
Rule
22
(a) and (c) ) ; or
(c) He volley the ball and fail to make a good return even
when standing outside the Court ; or
(d) He touch or strike the ball in play with his racket more
than once in making a stroke ; or
(e) He or his racket (in his hand or otherwise) or anything
which he wears or carries touch the net, posts, cord or
metal cable, strap or band, or the ground within his
opponent's Court at any time while the ball is in play; or
(f) He volley the ball before it has passed the net ; or
(g) The ball in play touch him or anything that he wears or
carries, except his racket in his hand or hands ; or
(h) He throws his racket at and hits the ball.
ig. If a player commits any act either deliberate or involuntary
which, in the opinion of the Umpire, hinders his opponent in
making a stroke, the Umpire shall in the first case award the point to
the opponent, and in the second case order the point to be replayed.
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