Question: I'm trying to find an answer to a particular rule regarding foot faults. Can points be taken away from a player if the player's opponent calls a foot fault consecutive times?
Answer: Friend at Court states: "In a non-officiated match, the receiver or the receiver’s partner may call foot faults after all efforts (warning the server and attempting to locate an official) have failed and the foot faulting is so flagrant as to be clearly perceptible from the receiver’s side."
Even though it is legal according to the Rules of Tennis to call foot faults under the above noted conditions, frequently this will cause an adverse reaction. Players do not always know the rules and will not think you have the right to call a foot fault. They may even think that you cannot really see if they are touching the line.
In the specific instance noted here (four consecutive foot faults), two points would be lost by the server. I am sure the server would argue about losing two points. He would be better off by moving back a step.
Question: In a recent match, my partner called a ball out that I though was good. I was embarrassed. I did not want to contradict my partner but I did not want my opponent to suffer either. What should I have done?
Answer: The best thing to do in that case is to talk privately with your partner immediately after the call and have your partner reverse the call. Even if the ball was out, you and your partner did not agree.
Here is what The Code says about disagreement between partners on line calls.
"If doubles partners disagree about whether their opponents’ ball was out, they shall call it good. It is more important to give your opponents the benefit of the doubt than to avoid possibly hurting your partner’s feelings by not overruling. The tactful way to achieve the desired result is to tell your partner quietly of the mistake and then let your partner concede the point. If a call is changed from out to good, the point is replayed only if the out ball was put back in play."
If partners make two different calls, regardless of which partner is right, you shall call the ball "good." If the ball is returned in play, you shall replay the point. If the ball is not returned at all or returned long or into the net, the player who hit the ball wins the point.
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