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Laws Summary
Scoring
• A game is won by the first side to score 15 points (11 points
in women's singles) as of April 15, 2003.
• You must be serving to win a point.
• If the server loses the rally, no point is scored. The other
player becomes the server.
• If a game becomes tied at 14, the first one to reach 14
chooses to play to 15 or set it to 3. If women's singles becomes
tied at 10, the first one to reach 10 chooses to play to 11 or set
it to 3.
• It is permissible to play one game of 21 points (instead
of best 2 of 3) by prior arrangement. In this case if the score
is tied at 20, the first one to reach 20 chooses to play to 21 or
set it to 3.
Serve
• Once the players have taken their positions, the first forward
movement of the server's racket head shall be the start of the service.
• Some part of both feet of server and receiver must remain
in contact with the floor in a stationary position until the service
is delivered.
• The server's racket must hit the shuttle while the entire
shuttle is below the server's waist.
• When the shuttle is hit, the entire head of the racket must
below the entire server's hand.
Where to stand during a serve
• The server and receiver must stand in diagonally opposite
service courts.
• Neither the receiver nor server may have their feet on or
past the boundary lines of the service court.
• The receiver's partner may stand anywhere, but must not
hit the serve.
• After the serve is returned, either player on a team may
hit the shuttle, and players may position themselves anywhere.
• Singles: If the server has an even number of points, the
serve is from the right. If the server has an odd number of points,
the serve is from the left.
• Doubles: To start the game, the person in the right court
has the serve. If the serving team gets the point, they rotate sides,
and the same person now serves from the left. This continues until
the serving team loses the rally. Then the serve passes to the other
team. The person on the right always serves first. They rotate if
they get a point. If they lose the rally, the serve goes to the
second person on that team ("second serve"). When the
rally is lost, the serve passes to the other team. Each time that
the serve passes to a new team, both players get to serve until
they lose a rally.
Doubles
serving rotation
Can be confusing at first. Remember these rules:
• Whenever the serving team gets a point, they rotate sides.
• Whenever the serve passes to a new team, the person on the
right starts to serve.
• Remember whether you started on the left or right. When
your score is even, you should be on the side you started from.
Whenever your score is odd, you should be on the side opposite to
the one you started on.
• For the first serve of the game, the server's partner does
not get a serve.
The Toss
• At the beginning of a match, the winner of a toss may choose
to serve, to receive, or select the side.
• The loser of the toss gets the choice of remaining options.
• For the second or third game in a match, the winner of the
previous game serves first.
• Players change ends:
1. At the end of the first game.
2. Prior to the beginning of the third game (if any).
3. And in the third game, when the leading score reaches 8 in a
game of 15; or 6 in a game of 11.
4. In a one game match, players change ends when the leading score
reaches 8 in a game of 15; or 6 in a game of 11.
Miscellaneous
• It is a fault if the player or racket touches the net.
• It is a fault if the shuttle touches a player or clothing.
• (The above faults only apply if the shuttle is in play.
It is in play until it hits the floor or sticks in the net.)
• If the shuttle hits the top of the net, it does not matter.
Play it as though it did not hit the net.
• If a shuttle hits a boundary line, it is considered to be
in the court.
• It is a fault if a player's racket is over the net when
the shuttle is hit. The striker may, however, follow the shuttle
over the net with the racket in the course of a stroke.
• Intervals not exceeding 90 seconds between the first and
second games, and not exceeding 5 minutes between the second and
third games, are allowed. The only time coaching is allowed is during
these intervals.
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