not sure if this has been discussed (tried to do a search but no results). if a player throws his/her racquet to recover a shot and the racquet makes contact with the shuttle while not held by the hand and the player wins the point, is that legal?
i don't think it's a fault or illegal... there's no law against it i do that all the time when i'm totally out of position, but i've never once even hit the shuttle, much less get the bird over
Lucky you man. We've got the wooden multipurpose flooring so our knees and ankles take a pounding (my ankle certainly did). For a laugh though, I'd like to see a VT80 LTD being flung across the court in desperation...
its only a vt80, but you could see joachim fischer do exactly that at the 2011 french open xd final against ma/xu
Jimmy Connors did this at least once: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHk3KEGF5mI (and the point stood).
I've seen it work once in a recreational game. A fellow returned a net shot and was unprepared for the crosscourt net return. It wasn't far, he just couldn't turn and get his feet going fast enough. So he tossed his racket gently, parallel to the net, and the bird hit the strings and had just enough oomph to crawl over the tape and drop to the other side. Not a tomahawk throw across the full length of the court like visor is wont to do . But it was quite amusing to all involved. The point was let to stand in that social situation. And I'd bet it wouldn't be faulted in competition either. Where is one of our venerable officials to give a ruling?
In tennis, the racquet must remain in contact with the player for the shot to count. So if the player throws the racquet at manages to get the ball over, it still will not count. If that Jimmy Connors shot counted then the umpire screwed up.
I think it's legal, but the act of throwing the racket endangers the players and can be classed as illegal for that reason. Might be ok if you do it cross court, but towards the net I think would be illegal. Have you done it yourself or did somebody do it to you?
It's good for professional championship game but for social game no. Why risk your racquet specially if it's a classic racquet? OF course, most everyone knows it is perfectly legal.
Depends if the rule existed when Jimmy Conners played that shot. If not, then umpire didn't screw up.
One only decides to throw themselves with the racquet as an extension of their arm if they are pretty sure they can make an irrecoverable save.
I play social games only. (not tournaments) and I've seen this done many times and it's never worked. hasn't ever touched the birdie. i've seen vt80's... armortec 600's... thrown. i'd rather lose the point...