First Author: Justin F.

Serving Rotation

A coin toss is what is first used to determine which team will begin to serve during the first set of the match.  The winners of the coin toss either chooses to serve or to receive which is choice 1 or they choose 2 and decide which court they want to start on. The losers of the coin toss make the second choice. For the second set the losers get to chose first and the winners make the second choice. For the third set they have a new coin toss. The teams submit their serving rotation after the

Coin toss and they will follow that for the rest of the match.

In singles, if the initial server wins the rally then that server scores a point. Before they serve again they must change court side. If the server loses, his opponent serves.  If the servers score is even, they are on the right side. If the servers score is odd they are on the left side.

In Doubles, after the initial serve, if the serving team wins the rally, the partners would switch places and the same server would serve again. When they lose their first rally the serve would pass onto the other team. This only happens at the beginning of every new game (1 st set). During the other sets if the servings team scores then the same person would serve again but switch court positions with his partner.  If the team loses the rally the partner would get to serve. After a team loses two consecutive rallies the opponents get to serve. When each side regains the serve, the server will always be the player who didn’t serve last time.  When the teams score is even they are in their starting position and when their score is odd they are in a reverse position. Starting position is the server on the right side.