RULES AND REGULATIONS Faults

Serving • Hitting the birdie out of bounds

• Hitting the birdie into the net
• Call out the score prior to serving
• Touching the net with your body or racket
o Say your score first, then your
• Hitting the birdie while it is on your opponent’s
opponents
side of the net
• Serves must be underhand
• If the birdie hits the ceiling or basketball goal (if
o Cannot make contact with birdie above
playing in the gym)
your waist
• Drop the birdie and hit it underhand over the How to Score
net
• The birdie cannot hit the ground prior to you • Everytime there is a serve, a point is scored
serving it over the net • Your team scores 1 point when your opponent
• Must serve diagonal from you faults
• Serve must land in the correct service box o Whatever team wins the point, gets a
• Alternate after each serve point (rally scoring)
o First serve to right service area • After the serving team faults:
o Second serve to left service area o In singles play – the serve goes to the
o Repeat opponent
• You must wait until your opponent is ready o In doubles play – the serve goes to the
opponent
• Only 1 serve attempt is allowed
▪ After the serving team faults,
• Exception to the rule: if the birdie gets stuck in
the serve then goes to player #1
the net on the way over
on the opponent’s team
o One re-serve is then allowed
• In singles and doubles, if you have a fault How to win
(doesn’t make it over the net or land in wrong
area) you lose your serve and then your • Win the best of 3 games to 21 points
opponent serves • In games, you must win by 2 points
• In doubles, when you lose a point, the next time o Example – if the game is tied 20-20, 21-
you are serving, your partner serves. 20 is not a winning score. A winning
score would be 22-20, or any other
Returning the birdie score with a 2 point difference (24-22,
26-24, etc)
• You can only return the birdie to your opponent
• If the score is tied 29-29, then whoever gets to
by:
30 first, immediately wins.
o Hitting the birdie before it hits the
ground
• You are not allowed to:
o Hit the birdie twice on your side before
hitting over the net
o In doubles – have both teammates hit
the birdie to return it over the net
o If you do hit it twice on your side, play
stops, it’s the other team’s point, and
your opponents now serve