Double fault

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A double fault (Engl. Double fault ) is a false charge in the second charge attempt in tennis .

rule

The player has two attempts to serve. If both are faulty, this is called a double fault and the return player receives a point.

The following cases are rated as errors when serving:

• Touching or crossing the baseline by the server (see foot error )
• Ball goes out or does not hit the opponent's diagonally opposite service zone
• Ball goes into the net

If the ball touches the edge of the net during an otherwise rule-compliant service and the ball then enters the service area, this is not counted as a fault - but the service must be repeated.

statistics

According to statistics at the Australian Open and the French Open, a double mistake happens after every 25th point. In Wimbledon and at the US Open after all 20 points.

Records

• The French Esther Thebault served on March 18, 2018 in the second qualifying round of an ITF tournament in Le Havre, France against her compatriot Emmanuelle Girard, believe it or not, 42 double faults. She then lost the match in three sets with 7: 6, 4: 6 and 5: 7.
• The Russian Anna Kurnikowa served 31 double faults in the second round match against the Japanese Miho Saeki at the Australian Open 1999 and won the game anyway. In the first round of the tournament she had already served 23 double faults.

• With 30 double errors in a match, the Swiss Marc Rosset holds the record that he set in the 2001 Davis Cup in the match between Switzerland and France in the match against Arnaud Clément . In the same match he also served 48 aces and ended up losing with 13:15 in the fifth set.

• Third place in the record statistics is also held by Rosset. In the encounter against Michael Joyce at the Wimbledon Championships in 1995 , he served 26 double faults.

• In the second round of the Wimbledon Championships in 1957 , the Brazilian Maria de Amorin hit 17 double faults in a row.

• With five double faults, Greg Rusedski has done the most in a single game in a row. This record cannot be "improved" (40: 0, 40:15, 40:30, 40:40, 40: A, lost)

Historic double fault

In the Davis Cup -Begegnung of Switzerland against the Czech Republic on 2 February 2013, the Swiss served Marco Chiudinelli in the longest Davis Cup match in history 7 6: and the second longest tennis match ever in the decisive fifth set with the score at 4 5, 4: 6, 7: 6 ³ , 22:23 the decisive double fault from the Swiss point of view and ended this historic Davis Cup encounter after seven hours and one minute. Switzerland lost the Davis Cup match 2: 3 overall.

In the first-round encounter at the Bausch & Lomb Championships in Amelia Island in 2002 , between Luxembourg's Anne Kremer and American Jennifer Hopkins , the groundskeeper measured himself and the service line was 0.9144 meters closer to the net. As a result, the two players served 29 double faults. The match was rated normally after consultation with the WTA .

Others

Most players try to play the second service more confidently and therefore aim more in the service area than on the sidelines. But there are also situations in which the players risk more and accept a double fault on the second serve. When serving, the line judges and the referee tend to make a particularly high number of wrong decisions, since at a speed of around 180 km / h usually only millimeters decide whether a ball still touches the sideline or was outside.

Web links

Wiktionary: double errors  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Double fault at deacademic.com
• Double fault: easy point for the opponent
• Double fault: number of failed serves

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated November 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Tennis Rules of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) ], Rule 24 "Loss of Points", letter a). Website of the German Tennis Federation . Retrieved November 9, 2013.  
2. ↑ Grand Slam Statistics (accessed November 10, 2013)
3. ↑ Le Havre 2018 live / Women - TennisResults.net. Retrieved September 1, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Emmanuelle Girard vs. Esther Thebault 03/18/2018 - Le Havre - TennisErverbindungen.net. Retrieved September 1, 2019 . 
5. ↑ 23 double fault and won: The normal Monfils madness (tennisnet.com from January 17, 2013, accessed on November 11, 2013)
6. ↑ 10 Most Obscure Tennis Record Holders (accessed November 10, 2013)
7. ↑ ATP Records (accessed November 10, 2013)
8. ↑ Chiudinelli's double fault on the 13th match ball (20min.ch of February 2, 2013, accessed on November 11, 2013)
9. ↑ 29 double fault - the groundskeeper was to blame (faz.net of April 9, 2002, accessed on November 11, 2013)

literature

• International Tennis Federation : Tennis rules of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) . accessed on January 19, 2016 (PDF)