What is the rule here? (Funny story)

[DefensiveTennis]

So Im playing doubles and my partner hits a bad smash into the ground and the opponents get it back and lob it over my head. I run back my partner is ****ed for messing up the smash and throws his racquet on the ground thinking they hit a lob winner. I get to the lob and lob them back, my partner then scrambles to pick up his racquet and gets it just in time to hit a volley winner after they retrieve my lob.

We won the point and walked back to serve the next one, he asked me was it legal?

 

[sureshs]

Throwing the racket on the ground could be seen as deliberate hindrance

 

[spot]

Unless his racquet touched the net then it was legal.

 

[chatt_town]

Yep...as Suresh said...they could have called a hindrance and took the point I think, but as long as they didn't say anything it was okay. If were to happen tomorrow a team could say something and take the point.

So Im playing doubles and my partner hits a bad smash into the ground and the opponents get it back and lob it over my head. I run back my partner is ****ed for messing up the smash and throws his racquet on the ground thinking they hit a lob winner. I get to the lob and lob them back, my partner then scrambles to pick up his racquet and gets it just in time to hit a volley winner after they retrieve my lob.

We won the point and walked back to serve the next one, he asked me was it legal?

 

[floydcouncil]

So Im playing doubles and my partner hits a bad smash into the ground and the opponents get it back and lob it over my head. I run back my partner is ****ed for messing up the smash and throws his racquet on the ground thinking they hit a lob winner. I get to the lob and lob them back, my partner then scrambles to pick up his racquet and gets it just in time to hit a volley winner after they retrieve my lob.

We won the point and walked back to serve the next one, he asked me was it legal?

Your opponent could have called a deliberate hindrance on your partner, but since they didn't, the point continued. You won the point.

 

[woodrow1029]

I think "Spot" is thinking of the racket slipping out of your partner's hand. That is not what happened here.

This case should have been a hindrance, as your opponent thought you were losing the point and threw the racket.

 

[DefensiveTennis]

Is my opponent allowed to shout come on to himself after I miss my first serve ?

I know a guy who does it and its really annoying?

 

[spot]

Woodrow- I was thinking it is only a hindrance if the other team actually called it a hindrance. I was under the impression that once they continued to play that they were not able to go back and claim it.

I do think that they would have been entirely within their rights to call it.

 

[chatt_town]

I agree. I think they would have had to call it when it happened. You can't continue to play the point and only after you lose it 2 or 3 shots later call a hindrance.

Woodrow- I was thinking it is only a hindrance if the other team actually called it a hindrance. I was under the impression that once they continued to play that they were not able to go back and claim it.

I do think that they would have been entirely within their rights to call it.

 

[sureshs]

But if their reflexes were good enough to call a hindrance in time, they would be playing at a much higher level