For the tenth consecutive month, the companions of the Digital Magazine TopPádel 360º have decided to test the knowledge 'sufferers' and the rules of this sport of fans ... Will you be able to give the right answer to the question posed to us?
Padel World Press .- In this case, we are going to raise a situation before which it is very possible that you doubt when choosing the correct answer ...
10 case: Ball of serve that, after bouncing on the ground, hits the match between wall and metal mesh.
We are playing on a regulation track and the kick of my opponent's boot on my court correctly and hits right in the match between the wall and the side fence. As a result, the ball comes out at a different angle than its natural bounce path.
What do the rules say?
a) The serve is good if the ball comes obliquely towards me, that I am the receiver. It is a lack of service if it leaves the network obliquely.
b) The serve is good in any case.
c) It is lack of service in any case.
d) The serve is let and must be repeated.
CORRECT ANSWER:
c) It is lack of service in any case.
Surely you have been surprised! You may have always taken for good the kick that comes out of the wall between the wall and the fence if the ball comes obliquely to the receiver, and you are convinced that we have made a mistake in the answer. But no ... It's lack of service.
The first thing that must be taken into account is that, in the case raised, it is said that we are playing on a regulatory track. According to the Paddle Regulations: "The metallic mesh is always aligned with the inner face of the walls". Therefore, if the track is regulation, there can be no peak between the wall and the fence, so it is physically impossible for the ball to give in that encounter without touching the net. Consequence: lack of service when touching the ball the mesh (Rule 7-e)
EntoncesWhy do we apply that rule so widely? The fact is that the Regulations maintain an exception that has been erroneously generalized as a rule: Case 1 of Rule 8. This exception says, in effect, that if the ball hits the peak of the wall-mesh junction the Serving is good if the ball comes out obliquely in the direction of the remaining one… But it also says that it is only for the case of old courts where this peak still exists, but not for modern courts built according to the Regulations. Therefore, if the track you play on has spikes, it is not regulatory.
The surprising thing is that more than 20 years ago that Spain and Argentina decided to homogenize the rules that were applied in both countries and the elimination of peaks, usual situation in Spain, was one of them.
A curiosity that few will know: Until that regulatory change, in Argentina it was forbidden that the couple that took volley the ball that came from the rest of the opponents ('Saque y red'), being this other rules eliminated.
Response prepared with the collaboration of Martín Echegaray, Technical Director of the Spanish Federation of Paddle
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