You make the call.

Your opponent’s groundstroke touches the outside edge of the singles sideline. How should it be judged?

Beginner · Reviewed 2026-10-13

Using standard service-let rules, your second serve clips the net and lands in the correct box. What is next?

Beginner · Reviewed 2026-10-13

Your first serve misses the box and your second serve also misses. Who wins the point?

Beginner · Reviewed 2026-10-13

A receiver volleys a serve before it reaches the ground. Is this allowed?

Beginner · Reviewed 2026-10-13

In a standard first-to-seven tiebreak, you lead 7–6. What happens next?

Intermediate · Reviewed 2026-10-13

Alex serves the first point of a standard singles tiebreak. Who serves the next two points?

Intermediate · Reviewed 2026-10-13

You have played six points in a standard ITF tiebreak. When do you change ends?

Intermediate · Reviewed 2026-10-13

In an advantage game, you have advantage but lose the next point. What is the score?

Intermediate · Reviewed 2026-10-13

In a standard tiebreak set, you lead six games to five. Have you won the set?

Intermediate · Reviewed 2026-10-13

Your racket touches the net while the ball is still live. What is the ruling?

Beginner · Reviewed 2026-10-13

During a rally, your groundstroke clips the net and lands inside the opponent’s court. What happens?

Beginner · Reviewed 2026-10-13

You catch a live ball before it bounces because you think it will land long. What happens?

Beginner · Reviewed 2026-10-13

Your foot touches the baseline during your service motion. What should be called?

Beginner · Reviewed 2026-10-13

In singles, a rally ball lands beyond the singles sideline but inside the doubles sideline. Is it in?

Beginner · Reviewed 2026-10-13

In standard doubles, can partners freely swap which service court each receives from between games of the same set?

Beginner · Reviewed 2026-10-13

You toss the ball but choose not to swing and catch it instead. Is that a service fault?

Beginner · Reviewed 2026-10-13

In standard pickleball, the receiver hits the serve before it bounces. What is the ruling?

Beginner · Reviewed 2026-10-13

Your partner serves. You hit the opponent’s return out of the air. Is that allowed?

Beginner · Reviewed 2026-10-13

A dink bounces in your kitchen. Can you step in and hit it after the bounce?

Beginner · Reviewed 2026-10-13

Your volley wins the rally, but its momentum carries you into the kitchen afterward. What is the ruling?

Beginner · Reviewed 2026-10-13

A toe is touching the kitchen line when you volley. Is the volley legal?

Beginner · Reviewed 2026-10-13

After entering the kitchen, what must happen before you can volley again?

Beginner · Reviewed 2026-10-13

Your serve lands directly on the opponent’s kitchen line. How is it judged?

Beginner · Reviewed 2026-10-13

A legal serve brushes only the net, clears the kitchen, and lands in the correct service court. What happens?

Beginner · Reviewed 2026-10-13

Under traditional side-out scoring, your receiving team wins a rally. Do you add a point?

Intermediate · Reviewed 2026-10-13

Under traditional side-out doubles scoring, the starting team loses its first service rally. What comes next?

Intermediate · Reviewed 2026-10-13

In standard full-court singles, your score is four. Which side do you serve from?

Intermediate · Reviewed 2026-10-13

After the opening service turn, your team’s second server loses a rally in side-out doubles. What comes next?

Intermediate · Reviewed 2026-10-13

In standard self-officiated play, you cannot clearly tell whether your opponent’s shot landed out. What should you do?

Beginner · Reviewed 2026-10-13

Your shot passes outside the net post and lands inside the opponent’s court. Must it cross above the net?

Beginner · Reviewed 2026-10-13

For a drop serve, can you throw the ball down to produce a bigger bounce?

Beginner · Reviewed 2026-10-13

After the serve, the ball strikes your shirt before reaching the court. What is the ruling?

Beginner · Reviewed 2026-10-13

Your group agreed to play to eleven, win by two. You lead 11–10. Is the game over?

Intermediate · Reviewed 2026-10-13

A rally shot lands on the baseline. Is it out?

Beginner · Reviewed 2026-10-13

You swing at your service toss and miss the ball completely. What happens?

Beginner · Reviewed 2026-10-13

The receiver clearly is not ready and makes no attempt to return your serve. Under standard rules, what should happen?

Beginner · Reviewed 2026-10-13

In doubles, your serve does not touch the net but strikes the receiver’s partner before bouncing. Who wins the point?

Intermediate · Reviewed 2026-10-13

Your doubles partner’s racket clips the ball and you then hit it over the net. Is your team’s return legal?

Beginner · Reviewed 2026-10-13

Before a point, must the server’s partner stand at the net?

Beginner · Reviewed 2026-10-13

After a first-service fault, a rally starts on your second serve. Another court’s ball rolls in and a general let is called. What serve restarts the point?

Intermediate · Reviewed 2026-10-13

The tennis ball breaks during the point. What is the ruling?

Intermediate · Reviewed 2026-10-13

After a completed point, you find the ball is soft but not broken. Must the point be replayed?

Intermediate · Reviewed 2026-10-13

In standard non-wheelchair tennis, you reach a drop shot only after its second bounce. Can you keep the rally going?

Beginner · Reviewed 2026-10-13

Your rally shot travels around the outside of the net post, below net height, and lands in the correct court without touching a fixture. Is it legal?

Intermediate · Reviewed 2026-10-13

Your opponent’s shot bounces in your court and spins back to their side. Can you reach across to return it without touching their court or the net?

Advanced · Reviewed 2026-10-13

You contact a volley on your own side, then your racket follows through over the net without touching it. The ball lands in. Is that allowed?

Intermediate · Reviewed 2026-10-13

You throw your racket at a ball and it sends a winning shot into the correct court. Who wins?

Beginner · Reviewed 2026-10-13

A live rally ball brushes your shirt before you hit it. What is the result?

Beginner · Reviewed 2026-10-13

One continuous swing accidentally contacts the ball twice and sends it in. You did not carry it or intentionally make a second hit. Is that automatically a lost point?

Advanced · Reviewed 2026-10-13

You discover you have been serving from the wrong half of the court during a game. What happens to points already played?

Intermediate · Reviewed 2026-10-13

Under standard ITF procedures outside a tiebreak, when do you change ends during a set?

Beginner · Reviewed 2026-10-13

You begin a new standard service game. From which half do you serve its first point?

Beginner · Reviewed 2026-10-13

A serve lands on the line at the back of the correct service box. Is it a fault?

Beginner · Reviewed 2026-10-13

Your legal serve bounces and the receiver returns it. May you volley that return before it bounces on your side?

Beginner · Reviewed 2026-10-13

At the instant you hit your pickleball serve, one foot touches the baseline. What is the ruling?

Beginner · Reviewed 2026-10-13

You jump and strike your serve with both feet off the ground. Is this legal in standard pickleball?

Beginner · Reviewed 2026-10-13

You strike a volley serve clearly above waist height. The ball lands in the correct service court. Is it valid?

Beginner · Reviewed 2026-10-13

May you use a backhand volley serve if it satisfies the upward motion, paddle-head and contact-height requirements?

Beginner · Reviewed 2026-10-13

You release a legal drop serve without added force, let it bounce twice, then hit it while your feet are correctly positioned. Is that allowed?

Intermediate · Reviewed 2026-10-13

Your legally dropped ball bounces inside the court before you serve it. Your feet are legally positioned at contact. Must the ball’s bounce have been behind the baseline?

Intermediate · Reviewed 2026-10-13

Your ball accidentally contacts the paddle twice during one continuous stroke in a single direction. It lands in. What happens?

Intermediate · Reviewed 2026-10-13

The ball touches your partner’s paddle and then yours before crossing the net. Is the return legal?

Beginner · Reviewed 2026-10-13

You swing and miss a rally ball. Your partner reaches it before a second bounce and makes a legal return. Can the rally continue?

Beginner · Reviewed 2026-10-13

After a rally, all players agree a cracked ball affected its outcome. What should happen under the standard rule?

Intermediate · Reviewed 2026-10-13

After a rally, everyone agrees the ball is soft or degraded but not broken or cracked. Does that alone require replaying the rally?

Intermediate · Reviewed 2026-10-13

In self-officiated doubles, you clearly call your opponents’ shot out but your partner says it was in. What is your team’s call?

Beginner · Reviewed 2026-10-13

In self-officiated play, neither partner is certain about a line call. May you ask a spectator to settle it?

Beginner · Reviewed 2026-10-13

In doubles, you tell your partner “out” before the opponents’ ball has landed. Is that already a valid line call?

Intermediate · Reviewed 2026-10-13

You return a ball, wait until your opponent hits the next shot, then call the previous ball out. Is that timely under the standard rule?

Intermediate · Reviewed 2026-10-13

While volleying, you are touching your partner, who is standing in the kitchen. You stay outside it yourself. Is your volley legal?

Advanced · Reviewed 2026-10-13

As part of your volleying action, your hat falls into the kitchen. Your feet remain outside. What is the ruling?

Intermediate · Reviewed 2026-10-13

During a rally, may you switch your paddle from your right hand to your left before making the next shot?

Beginner · Reviewed 2026-10-13

You release your paddle and it strikes the ball into the opponents’ court. Is that a legal return?

Beginner · Reviewed 2026-10-13

The serve has been returned. You now stop the rally to correct the score announced before serving. What is the standard ruling?

Advanced · Reviewed 2026-10-13