Rules Question for Woodrow or another

[bumfluff]

I was out playing dubs last night in some pretty awful windy weather, but anyway.... I lunged across to cut off a volley, miss hit it a little bit and it was a sort of drop shot, but only a little bit away from the opponent at the net. As he was going for it he shouted "come on" very loudly and seemingly unneccessarily. He ended up winning the point. What are the rules for shouting out like this in doubles, because obviously you need to be able to communicate with your partner.

There was also a case of this later from my partner, although a bit different. A volley came just to his side with reasonable pace but he wasn't quick and had to take it low and the ball rocketed up in the air looking to be out, in his frustration he shouted "up" ie. get his racket up. The ball then got caught in the wind and our opponents missed the smash.

Obviously the matches weren't too serious (although they are league matches), but what would be the consequences of these actions in a real match?

Edit: This actually happened last week as well. I put up a terrible lob and the opponents partner shouted "c'mon Ross" as he was lining up his smash. Ross missed it, what a fool his partner is.

 

[blakesq]

I seem to remember a rule or a friend of court suggestion saying that if the ball is heading towards your opponents side of thE court, it is ok for the opponents to talk/yell to each other. However, if the ball is heading towards your side of the court, then your opponents should not be making noise. One exception is if your opponents hits a short lob, THEN i don't care if my opponent warns his partner that he hit a short lob. but if he screams "SHORT $*(%(#$*@$ LOB" I WOULD PROBABLY CALL A HINDRENCE.

I was out playing dubs last night in some pretty awful windy weather, but anyway.... I lunged across to cut off a volley, miss hit it a little bit and it was a sort of drop shot, but only a little bit away from the opponent at the net. As he was going for it he shouted "come on" very loudly and seemingly unneccessarily. He ended up winning the point. What are the rules for shouting out like this in doubles, because obviously you need to be able to communicate with your partner.

There was also a case of this later from my partner, although a bit different. A volley came just to his side with reasonable pace but he wasn't quick and had to take it low and the ball rocketed up in the air looking to be out, in his frustration he shouted "up" ie. get his racket up. The ball then got caught in the wind and our opponents missed the smash.

Obviously the matches weren't too serious (although they are league matches), but what would be the consequences of these actions in a real match?

Edit: This actually happened last week as well. I put up a terrible lob and the opponents partner shouted "c'mon Ross" as he was lining up his smash. Ross missed it, what a fool his partner is.

 

[JavierLW]

I seem to remember a rule or a friend of court suggestion saying that if the ball is heading towards your opponents side of thE court, it is ok for the opponents to talk/yell to each other. However, if the ball is heading towards your side of the court, then your opponents should not be making noise. One exception is if your opponents hits a short lob, THEN i don't care if my opponent warns his partner that he hit a short lob. but if he screams "SHORT $*(%(#$*@$ LOB" I WOULD PROBABLY CALL A HINDRENCE.

There is no exception for calling short in the rules, in fact there is a USTA example in the rulebook where it says that's still hindrance.

However hindrance is so rarely called anyway that it's probably doesnt matter, you have to call it before you make any attempt on the ball and most people's first reaction is to try to hit it first.

I only get mad as well when they manage to yell SHORT!!! at the very instant Im trying to hit the ball, I know a guy that does that all the time and Im always confused on whether he's just dumb or if he's just trying to screw me up. (but again most of the time I dont call hindrance because Im programmed into hitting that ball)