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Foot Fault

When the server steps over the baseline while making a serve.


The server cannot touch or cross the baseline with either foot before the ball is hit. If this occurs, it's called a foot fault. Even if the serve goes in the appropriate service box, once a foot fault is called (usually by an umpire) the serve is dead. If a foot fault is called on a second serve, no matter what, the server loses the point. The server however has the right to ask which foot is causing the fault so they may make an adjustment.

Permanent link Foot Fault - Creation date 2023-03-03


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