Ball making contact twice

[Holden]

So what do you call it anyway? You know, when the ball makes contact with the strings twice. I mean, is there a technical term for this and can you be penalized?

[kevhen]

It's legal as long as you follow through on your swing and only swing forward once. "Double hit"??? Usually when this happens, it is because the ball hits the inside of the frame and comes off at an angle that crosses in front of the racquet again often hitting on the opposite side of the frame and sometimes going over the net for a tricky spinning shot for your opponent to deal with but the ball is usually slow and short and often be put away by them if the spin doesn't cause them to mess it up.

If you swing twice, you lose the point. Otherwise we could all learn to lob to ourselves and then spank overheads on our opponents.

[oldguysrule]

It is a double hit. You are not penalized as long as it your stroke is a smooth continuous motion. If the double hit results from a break in your stroke, then you lose the point.

[Osteo UK]

I had one of these in a doubles match the other week. I was attempting to hit a volley that came right at me and it was a double hit. One of my opponents claimed the point, but I said that it was one single motion. He said it wasn't and that I "deliberately hit it twice because there was too big a gap between the sounds".

Ridiculous. I was just swinging protectively across my body and chest to get contact.