Serve Point? Or Side Out Point?

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by Middleman

Not so fast.

A, B, C, and D are Illegal Serves and the point/Loss of Rally is awarded to R.

E, F, and G are Service Faults and the point is awarded to S.

Agreed (at least without looking at the book).

R is not "out of rotation" until the serve is legally contacted -- that didn't happen in A-D, so it's R's point.

And, R is out of rotation as soon as the serve is legally contacted, so the ball is dead and the rest of the serve (landing in the net / out of bounds, etc.) never happened. S's point.