#footfault

[smashservediaries]

👟 What is a Foot Fault in Tennis? 👟

A foot fault in tennis occurs when a player serves with their foot over the baseline or on the wrong side of the center line. This is considered a violation, and it can cost the player their serve!

Learn more about the rules, how foot faults are called, and how to avoid them in your game: https://theracketsports.com/what-is-a-foot-fault-in-tennis/ 🌟

[eliotbowman]

You heard the man! #FootFault https://www.instagram.com/p/CFQrVx7pK8_/?igshid=1u53c5stknskq

[hksquash]

Kandra survives Cesar challenge ... and the Foot Fault

R2: Raphael Kandra (Ger) 3-1 Cesar Salazar (Mex)   11-8, 11-6, 8-11, 11-9 (51m)

It was ‘only’ 51 minutes, but this was the match of the tournament so far, finishing with the winner slumped on the floor, declining his opponent’s offer to help him up as he needed more time to recover from an astonishing final rally that left the large court 9 crowd applauding wildly - they would have loved a fifth.

There was a bit of controversy too, with Cesar being penalised three times for foot faulting, combined with a conduct stroke on the first of those.

Explanation : Referee Nathan Turnbull called a foot fault fairly early in the first game - “it was blatant,” he said, “I’ll always call those but the marginal ones are difficult.” [apparently someone sent in a video still and Cesar was almost over the centre line when he hit the ball].

But of course he didn’t say “Foot Fault” as all service faults - serving out, serving down, foot faulting and all the other illegal serves,  are now called simply “Fault”.

Naturally the player then asks what the problem was and the Ref will say “foot fault” - begging the question of why don’t they just call “foot fault” in the first place (and for that matter, out is out, not a fault, but don’t get me started on that one #oopstoolate) .

On Court 9 the refs are seated a few rows back, and it’s genuinely difficult to hear sometimes. Nathan says he told Cesar it was a foot fault but Cesar didn’t hear it, so approached the door so that he could better hear the explanation.

He then opened the door - to be fair he was warned not to, can’t remember by who - to hear Nathan declare “your foot was out of the box”. Meanwhile Raphael was doing a bit of stirring, pointing and saying “he opened the door!”. 

Of course, opening the door is a capital offence these days, so Nathan duly added on the conduct stroke to the faulty service and Cesar was two points worse off.

Two controversial matters in one then - personally, I don’t know anyone who thinks calling just “fault” is a good idea when “foot fault” and “out” are so obvious and simple, and the consensus I pick up is that the “don’t open the door” conduct stroke is excessive when the player is simply trying, in a non-aggressive manner, to find out what’s going on.

Anyway, enough of that - it was a very good match, Cesar got called for two more foot faults, and if you can wind the replay to the final rally you’ll definitely enjoy it!

Steve Cubbins

[dazzlerinalex]

#footfault #ao2017🎾 #kiatennis #rogerfederer (at Australian Open)

[theyoungpetanqueclubrotterdam]

#pointingouttheobvious #petanque #extraboule #boules #footfault #bocce #teammates #jeudeboules #dresstoimpress #ontherighttrack #falsies

[themorrie-blog]

"Foot Fault" by Russell Morrison If someone ever tells me they have "Peter Pan Syndrome" I instantly wish that was drinking a strawberry milkshake that I would then throw in your face. People who use that term use it to justify why they have just been a fuckwit, and thus deserve to be covered in a pink coloured dairy drink. Not to say I don't believe in people never growing up, I have to deal with it every day. Take my father for instance. He's been a professional artist for over 30 years, met and painted many well known subjects who he can now call friends, sold paintings to the upper echelon of society, painted labels for international brands and continually working at mastering all mediums of art. He just turned 60 this year, and should by this stage be an upstanding member of society, but get him together with his group of tennis mates, where every year they commission Russ to make a sculpture as a trophy for any reason he deems worthy and this is what you end up with, the mind of a 16 year old. Done just for fun, who else would spend endless hours carving a wooden sculpture that has features like "saggy fried egg tits", a prominent "ball bag", wearing chaps and a real life leather g-string that compliments the hand plaited leather whip. If the saying "like father, like son" is anything to go by, then it's a bleak outlook for maturity on the horizon for the only Morrison son. #russellmorrisongaleries #tennis #trophy #footfault #ballbag #friedegg #woodcarving #art #sculpture #milkshake #themorrie