Poll: Service fault, receiver ready?

[Cheung]

Scenario doubles:

Player A puts non racquet arm up receiving serve. Eyes start to come up, racquet arm hasn't fallen.

Player C serves to player A, called service fault (struck above service height).

Umpire calls point in favour of player A (and partner).

Player C (and partner) argue player A is not ready!


Referee called in and result is replay of point.

I saw this happen in a BWF match in Asian Junior Championships

 

[psyclops]

Scenario doubles:

Player A puts non racquet arm up receiving serve. Eyes start to come up, racquet arm hasn't fallen.

Player C serves to player A, called service fault (struck above service height).

Umpire calls point in favour of player A (and partner).

Player C (and partner) argue player A is not ready!


Referee called in and result is replay of point.

I saw this happen in a BWF match in Asian Junior Championships

The arm-fall situation has no bearing of receiver being ready; neither the eyes coming up. Moreover, the laws and instructions to umpires as written does not give the receiver any basis to hold up play, ergo, continuous play.

However, more relevant is the pre-event instructions to umpires by referees. From my experience, some referees are pro- for the situation described, some referees are against.

If I was umpire for the match described, it is server fault, and point to the receiving side [player A].

As the umpire, I am also not calling the referee for what is clearly no misapplication of any law.
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[H8Man]

Assuming that you meant "non-racquet arm hasn't fallen" instead of "racquet arm hasn't fallen".

The question is, why does he even serve when the opponent clearly is not ready? So they still serve, trying to get a cheap shot, but cry afterwards when they got called for a service fault? I would repeat, but give them a warning, telling them that next time player A will get the point.

Umpires need to get this unfair behavior out of the game and minds.