Court of Appeals: Call it Loud, Say it Proud

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The tennis summer swing is in full force across all surfaces, meaning more debates over lines and serves, questionable calls, and the perennial query: 'What does The Code say?'

Court of Appeals is here to clear the air. Rebel Good, a past editor of Friend at Court, the USTA’s handbook of rules and regulations, has taught officiating for more than 30 years and will resolve all your rules questions and quarrels.

Call it Loud, Say it Proud

I was at the net in doubles and my partner was receiving. I clearly saw a serve wide on the far side and called it out. Our opponents claimed that only the receiver could call that line, not the net man. They finally accepted the call when my partner said that he also had seen the ball out, but had not had a chance to make the call because he was so focused on receiving. What is your call?

— David Garrison, Dayton, Ohio

It's your call, not mine, and you made it. The Code, #9, says “either player may make calls in doubles,” although it cautions that “the call of a player looking down a line is more likely to be accurate than that of a player looking across a line.”

— Rebel Good

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