Baseline game rules preference? (New Poll)

[travlerajm]

Do you prefer to play your baseline games with feeds down the middle but count? Or do you prefer to have rule that 2-balls or more gotta go over the net before point starts?

 

[TagUrIt]

My hitting partner and I are both 4.0 and we don't start the points until the ball come back over after the feed. So two balls.

 

[travlerajm]

Small sample size so far, but here are how the stats break down at this point for % of players preferring every-ball-counts rules:

Last edited after 23 votes:
4.0 and below: 0%
4.5 and higher: 40%

 

[Dragy]

An US Div1 player I was practicing with on courts for some time suggested a team game where once point got won by one team, the other team got new player on court - at the center hash - who was allowed to immediately feed a ball wherever he/she wanted which instantly counted (including error). So kind of you hit a winner at the net ... you get immediately passed. THAT was cruel.

PS Yeah and he could feed topspin drives to any corner, so even if you recovered after winning a point, he still got you on the ropes.

 

[zipplock]

I play feed doesn't count because at 4.0 feeds can be pretty abysmal sometimes. If hitting with more consistent people the feed will count. Have played with some guys that intentionally try to win cheap points off the feed, defeats the purpose of playing a point to me if there will be no point played.

Net games are different. Those are always live off the feed.

 

[VacationTennis]

Another option you can do is the feed has to be crosscourt, and in the court. First ball is live but if you feed it out, you lose the point. Alternate the feeder.

But mostly I just do 3rd ball is live.

 

[travlerajm]

Bumping this just to keep the votes coming in.

 

[onehandbh]

I prefer the feed counting as long as it goes down the middle and past the service line. Any kind of feed. Slice, topspin, lob, sidespin, but a regular feed is fine, too.

 

[onehandbh]

I used to do a similar game where one person starts at the net but at the service line and the baseline person feeds. They can feed any kind of shot as long as it is to the guy at the net and it is not a lob (to start). Guy at the service line can start moving in as soon as the baseliner feeds. Then the point starts. Everything goes, including lobs and passing shots. So the baseliner will generally try to feed low balls or maybe a high backhand volley. (but a good player may be able to run around the bh and hit a forehand or a squat overhead putaway).

To make the rallies longer, this game can be played on half of a court. (use the doubles alley, though)

 

[onehandbh]

For the half court version, you can also add the rule that net guy cannot let the ball bounce. Everything has to be taken in the air -- either volley or overhead.

 

[GuyClinch]

My hitting partner and I are both 4.0 and we don't start the points until the ball come back over after the feed. So two balls.

Yeah this is the rule. I play the variation that the daily tennis guy recommends. You don't play straight points - you lose one point for an error and you only get points on winners/forced errors. So to win you need to get to ten points and you start at 5. The feed ball not counting is very important - game would be kinda ruined without it.