over and back question

[Rickson]

Booster made me think of something while I answered a question on his other thread. Now I know it's legal to hit the ball into your opponent's side net when the ball is going over and back, but can the opponent hit the ball back once it bounces off the net? At what point is the ball considered dead? My feeling would be that he could hit the ball after one bounce, but I'm not sure. Opinions?

[Rickson]

I can't find the answer on google.

[kevhen]

Yeah I think the ball would have to bounce twice on his side for it to be dead. That would be pretty unusual if his ball bounced back over to his side and you then hit it into the net on his side and then he gets it back over before it has bounced twice. It would be a fun and memorable point though.

[Geezer Guy]

The point is over after the ball bounces twice. Hitting the net has nothing to do with it. (It's just harder to play the ball out of the net than off a clean bounce.)

Actually - the BEST thing to do would be to hit the ball hard onto the ground on his court, but at an angle that causes it to bounce back over the net to YOUR side of the court. That way he has no chance to get a play on the ball.

[kevhen]

If you hit the ball too hard though and it bounced back over and went up high, he could run around the side of the net and try to reach in and hit the ball while standing on your side, but off your court. He can run around the net but can't enter onto the singles court on your side, I believe. Might be better to just reach over and hit the ball soft with some backspin and have it roll back over the net onto your side.

So what if two players ran into each other while one was chasing a ball that had bounced back over the net? Would it be a hinder and a let?

[Geezer Guy]

It wouldn't be a let.

[Rickson]

So what if two players ran into each other while one was chasing a ball that had bounced back over the net? Would it be a hinder and a let?
Whomever crossed the net's plane, loses the point. In the other scenario, if the racquet of the person who returns the over and back is on the opponent's side and the opponent hits the racquet, he will lose the point. In other words, don't touch the racquet of the guy reaching.

[kevhen]

I can't find it now, but I once read that you could run around the side of the net to hit a ball that had bounced back over. Your feet could not contact with your opponent's court but you could move in the out-of-bounds area. Am I hallucinating on this??????

[The Extremist]

If you hit the ball too hard though and it bounced back over and went up high, he could run around the side of the net and try to reach in and hit the ball while standing on your side, but off your court. He can run around the net but can't enter onto the singles court on your side, I believe. Might be better to just reach over and hit the ball soft with some backspin and have it roll back over the net onto your side.

So what if two players ran into each other while one was chasing a ball that had bounced back over the net? Would it be a hinder and a let?Good question.