Opponent hits the net with racket...

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  1. visor

    visor Regular Member

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    Interesting situation came up few days ago while playing MD.

    I had made a desperate backhand return of a drive and my drive return was heading loosely towards the net. However it didn't cross the net, only to hit the net on my side about 3 inches below tape. The opponent front player saw the loose return and leapt to intercept it, but only to hit the bird *through* the net.

    Who should get the point?

    Him, because my shot is already a fault having hit the net and started falling to the ground on my side? But it hadn't hit the ground yet.

    Or me, because he faulted on hitting the net?

    The question is when is the rally over: when the bird hit the net and started falling on my side, or when it hit the ground?

    I think I know, but he gave me the point anyways... :)
     
  2. kwun

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    so it appears that 15.1 applies here. so as long as he hits the net *after* the shuttle starts to fall, then it is his point.
     
  3. visor

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    Yeah, and I guess it's hard to discern when and how much it should fall before deciding the rally is over. In my case it probably had fallen maybe 0.5 inches or so before he hit it. :p
     
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    What kwun said is correct. I guess it's more of, if you're 100% ascertain that the shuttle is not going to cross over the net, and your opponent then hits the net, then the rally has already ended.
     
  5. visor

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    Ah, but it doesn't matter whether I knew or not it wasn't going to cross the net, but more importantly the opponent didn't know it was not going to cross the net and hit it thru the net, thinking that it was going to cross.

    The question then becomes when do we decide the rally is over in this case, when it falls by 1 inch or more, or? In any case, iirc I think he hit the net the moment the shuttle hit the net, so the shuttle hadn't had a chance to fall yet, so the rally wasn't over yet at that moment. :)
     
  6. kwun

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    it is actually a very interesting scenario.

    we have to realize that the net is not a solid wall. usually when the shuttlecock hits it, there is a certain "dwell" time in which the shuttlecock is "caught in the net", and then after that it starts falling. that amount of time is the buffer zone between your opponent trying to take a risk or just late at hitting it.

    in other words, the rule was actually quite well thought out. interpreting it literally means that it prevents the hitter from just blindly hitting the net at this type of situation.
     
  7. amleto

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    visor, the rule is clear - hits the net and STARTs to fall. No need to give any number. As soon as the shuttle 'starts to fall', then it is fault.

    Even if it doesn't start to fall, then it is also a fault - a stuck shuttle on the strikers side is a fault.
     
  8. visor

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    I tend to interpret it like kwun, as 15.1 stated.

    amleto, if in the next little while, I start to whack at the net every time my opponent's shot hit the net on their side and starts to fall, I'll see how successful I can be in arguing that I should get the point. :)
     
  9. drmchsraj

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    +1.
    he should've been a better judge. i'd just pretend im about to sneeze.....and blow at it ;). easy done! j/k!
     
  10. drmchsraj

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    geez, just buy a new net without such a big hole, you cheapos! (just kidding :)).
    i think it's his point too?

    btw, i've faced a somewhat similar situation: opponent did what visor did, i was already in place, it was easy shot. i'm prone to showing off a bit now and then :( so i temporarily averted my gaze to look at my team with an 'i've nailed it, this guy's toast' expression, stood there like a traffic policeman with a stop sign (the racket being the stop sign), so the birdie would make contact with the racket and fall while i just stand like a statue. because of the draft or whatever, it got ever so slightly delayed and landed on the net, but my racket was only a few millimeters away, perfectly 90 degress vertical, WITHOUT crossing it; the bird landed on the net, then hit my 'frozen' racket, then fell on his side and i got the point. but the opponent's team watching from near the net protested (umpire was one of us, it was a friendly match) that because of the movement of the birdie, it pushed the net and the net touched my racket and thus, it was a fault.

    what do you guys think? i never crossed or touched the net with my racket or any part of the body, i was quite sure of it. i didn't want to yell back to them 'it was the net that made contact with my racket' as it'd sound crazy if taken out of context lol so i just let him have the point as it'd not affect the game's outcome.
     
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    Lol... the net hit your racket?!! :D That's a new one... haven't heard of that before. :D

    But still you had faulted first (doesn't matter what, you still made contact with the net) so point goes to opponent. :p
     
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    Btw, in my OP, there was no hole in the net. The opponent was standing very close to the net and hit the net while trying to hit the bird that was falling down on my side of the net.
     
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    i know, i was just trying to have some fun with that sentence :).

    just putting this out there to get your opinions:
    eventhough a player is standing there, albeit real real close to the net but definitely not making contact with it, and the birdie hitting the net forced the net (let's say the cord of the net is a little wobbly) to move 1-2cms towards him and touched his racket, would you say it's a fault technically?
     
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    yes, if the shuttle hasn't started to fall to the opponents side when you touch the net
     
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    so it doesn't matter if the net 'got pushed' towards/into my racket (even when im stationary)?
    i know the chances of this happening are very very slim but just curious :)
     
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    Sorry, but even if the net post had toppled over along with the net to touch your racket and body while your were just standing there, you're still at fault. ;)
     
  17. drmchsraj

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    lol, thanks for clarifying that. i guess its better for me to not go for the overkill and stand a couple cm back.
     
  18. gundamzaku

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    shoot, i guess i'm in the wrong sport since i can bare gauge a couple of inches, let alone centimeters :(

    i should stick with american football and yards!
     
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    Come on guys, this discussion is of a purely academical nature. In 15 years of badminton, I've never been close enough to the net so that the power of the opponent's shot swooshes the net to my body...:D

    The only thing that realistically happens is that you try to do a net shot/net kill and hit the net with the racket, while the shuttle does not pass the net. The rules have been discussed above...
     
  20. drmchsraj

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    yeah, happened to me just that once, and i wouldn't have paid more attention to it if the other team's supporters hadn't protested lol. the discussion's based assuming this was more of a hypothetical scenario

    gundamzaku, there's always that special moment or game for everyone when they feel almighty and judge everything precisely and everything's going their way... :)
     

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