Are you allowed to do that? My opponent called me off on that, and I argued with him that it is allowed. The reason being is that I watched a Lin Dan match once where he constantly stands on the middle white line while serving. He's still the right side, of course, but a part of his foot is on top of the service center white line without a part of his shoe going out of the 1.5 inch border line. The commentator, Gillian Clark, even mentions it, and that's why it stuck on my mind ever since. I just can't remember what match it is though.
Are you 100% sure, 'cause Lin Dan did it a lot in one of his matches (I can't remember what match). The commentator even mentioned it, and she didn't say it was not allowed. She just said it's interesting that LD stands on top of the white line. And the umpire did not call him at fault. I hope I can see that match again so I can post it.
If as her serves he moves his bodyweight forwards and his foot crosses the line after contact with the shuttle then that is ok. As long as his foot maintains contact with the floor it should be ok. But you can't be in contact with the line when the shuttle is struck.
Lin Dan's foot was physically touching the line before making contact with the shuttle. The commentator would have said it's not allowed if she mentioned it, don't you guys think so? To you guys that say it's not allowed, where in the rulebook does it say that? I still think it's okay for your feet/shoe to touch the inside of the white line as long as no part of your feet/shoe is actually touching the other green side.
9.1.2 the server and the receiver shall stand within diagonally opposite service courts (Diagram A) without touching the boundary lines of these service courts; Nothing ambiguous about it. Now would it have been that hard to look it up yourself?
Well that sux = ( For some sort of reason I really like stepping on that center line = ) But thanks for the info = )
The umpire is looking at the receiver - he calls 'fault receiver'. It's the service judge who calls a fault for the service but obviously, that is not the best position to look at the line.