illegal alignment

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Originally Posted by john5396

Normal coverage is first referee watches serving team and second referee watches receiving team. SO illegal alignment on the serving team is definitly a call the first referee will make, although if the second referee identifies an alignment fault on the serving team, they can and will call it.

The R2 can make this call, but they better be 100% sure it is an alignment issue. If the R2 was wrong, it is not his call to make on the serving team.

I had a call like this as R2 a couple of years ago where S2 was off of the court at the net on serve, I whistled the alignment issue and set the serving team's coach into a raging fit. The coach tried to argue that I could not have seen the fault if I was looking at the receiving team, but I responded that I could see the offending player through my peripheral vision. The offending player was about 2 feet off of the court.