It is difficult to figure out what is your inquiry here. Is it some sort of delay you mean by undesirable postpone in serve? Repost with clarifications.
Could someone please explain what happened after 12-8 in the first set, how come all of a sudden Goh V shem served? Sent from my SM-N975F using Tapatalk
At 8:10, Tan Wee Kiong (no knee bandage) is receiving on the right. At 11:8, Tan Wee Kiong is suddenly serving from the left. This is wrong, Goh V Shem should serve. The umpire missed it then and only corrected it before the serve at 13:8. This is correct according to the laws: That is precisely what happened. While it's of course bad form for the umpire to overlook the initial service court error after the interval and overlook it at the next rally too, the umpire handled the resulting situation professionally. These days, umpires are taught to especially check server and receiver after specific situations, namely interval, injury, suspension, and wild rallys.
Was there an old rule where the angle of the racquet must be generally pointing downwards (i.e. the handle is above the racket head) when serving? Or did I completely dream this up in my head?
Those were two different rules: Handle above racket head is really old and got removed 2006 I believe. Racket angle downwards was removed with the introduction of fixed service height ~2018. It still is a rule in almost all national federations.
Good to know I wasn't making it up. Someone was asking recently regarding their service as they were told off for serving with an upward angle racquet. I correctly mentioned the fixed height, but also threw in the downward angle requirement. Shall clarify in the next game. Thanks!
