1) After a request for the Head Referee or Tournament Director has been acknowledged by the referee, the player may rescind the request, however, the player or team will be charged a standard time-out.

When a standard time-out is not available, the referee will assess a technical foul against the player or team.

2) If a paddle violation is identified after the match has started, the player or team forfeit the current match being played only.

3) In a doubles match, Team A is ahead at 5-4-1 with Player A1 having served for 4 straight points.

Player A2 serves for 2 more points to reach 7-4-2 before losing a rally.

It should be side-out, but player A1 serves a second time and wins the next rally while no one recognised the error.

The score is now 8-4-2 and player A1 serves again when the referee realises Player A1 served twice.

What is the correct ruling at this point?

4) If the referee calls a player for a questionable service motion but the served ball does not land in the correct service court, what is the appropriate action for the referee to take?

5) In a match to 21, teams have 3 time-outs available.

6) A player standing behind the non-volley zone line stretches low to return the ball before it bounces.

After starting her swing, her paddle scrapes the NVZ court surface just before making contact with the ball.

This is a fault because the paddle touched the non-volley zone during the swing.

7) In a match with a referee, after a rally has completed, a player notices that the ball is cracked and steps on it and crushes it.

What should the referee do if they saw this happen?

8) If a player stops a rally and incorrectly identifies a player/position error, it is a fault on the player who stopped the rally.

9) The referee will confirm and correct, if necessary, that all players are in the correct position and the correct server has the ball before calling the score.

10) A serve landing on any service court line, except the non-volley zone line, should be considered in-play.

11) If the player rescinds their medical time-out after the medical personnel have been called and before they have arrived, a standard time-out will be charged and the medical time-out will not be charged.

When a standard time-out is not available, the referee will assess a technical foul against the player or team for delay of game.

12) The score has been called and the server has started his service motion.

Just after the server makes contact with the ball, the receiver calls time-out.

What does the referee do?

13) The receiver's partner or server's partner may stand anywhere on or off their team's end of the court.

14) A hinder is defined as any physical actions by a player that are not common to the game that, in the judgment of the referee, may interfere with the opponent’s ability or concentration to hit the ball.

15) During the mid-game, end change time-out, coaching is allowed.

16) Players are responsible for line calls on their side of the net.

If the opponents hit a ball close to a line, the player or team that is supposed to make the line call may appeal to the referee without first making a call.

Once they appeal to the referee, they lose the right to make any subsequent "in" or "out" call for that rally.

17) If a player/team does not return the ball,they may appeal the call to the referee or defer to their opponents to make the line call up until the next serve occurs.

18) The rules allow for a "game forfeit" under certain conditions.

In a 2 out of 3 games match, if a player takes a valid medical time-out and cannot continue play after the time limit has ended, a match forfeit must be declared.

19) After the referee has called the score and before the ball is served, one of the receivers says “wait, wait” and the receivers switch their positions without saying anything else.

Nothing occurred that would constitute a hinder.

What should the referee do?

20) When a rally is over, a player may appeal an opponent's rally ending line call to the referee until what point in time?

21) In a match using the rally scoring option, a player/team must win on their serve.

22) If the wrong score is called, any player may stop play before the return of serve and before the ball becomes dead to correct the score.

23) During a rally, Player A's hat flies off his head and is headed toward the ground.

Which statement below is FALSE?

24) In a match with line judges, if the officiating team cannot make a line call, a replay shall be called.

25) A player may legally break the plane of the net to hit a ball after the ball has bounced on that player’s side of the net and traveled back across the net plane to the opponent’s side.

26) When a server uses the Drop Serve, the receiver may call for a replay if they did not see the release of the ball. The "call for a replay" must happen before the receiver returns the serve.

27) Other than on the serve, if a ball goes over the net and bounces on the court and then hits the center base, horizontal bar, gets caught between the net and horizontal bar, hits a deflected net, or hits a draping net on the ground, a replay shall be called.

28) Team "A" serves to start a rally.

Player "A1" volleys a ball for a winner near the NVZ, but loses her balance and begins windmilling her arms.

Player "A1's" partner drops his paddle in the NVZ and then, from outside the NVZ, grabs player "A1" to prevent her from entering the NVZ.

What should the referee call?

29) At what point in time can a player/team withdraw from a match?

30) When a player commits a technical foul, one point shall always be deducted from the offending player's score.

31) The combined length and width of a paddle, including any edge guard and butt cap, shall not exceed 24 inches (60.96 cm).

32) It is a fault if a player contacts the net post while the ball is live.

33) If a player disagrees with a line judge’s “out” call that benefited their team, the player may overrule the “out” call as “in”.

What would happen next?

34) Referees may eject or expel players for egregious behaviour if the behaviour happens during the match.

35) Team B is down 0-9-2 and hits the serve into the net. "Side out."

The server for team B angrily throws his paddle across the court into the net and calls time-out.

You call a technical foul.  The score is now 10-0-1.

When play resumes after the time-out, who should be serving for Team A and from which side?

36) In a mini-singles match with a score of 5-2, what court should the server and receiver be playing respectively?

37) In a 2 out of 3 games match, Team A wins the first game 11-7.

During game 2, Team A is losing 9-2 and elects to retire.

What score(s) should be recorded on the scoresheet?

38) Which of the following would NOT result in a fault?

39) In a doubles match, after a medical time-out an injured player on Team A believes they can no longer contribute.

Which option below would be available to Team A?

40) Players may not use time-outs or a medical time-out to delay the start of a match.

A match cannot begin until all players are present.

After the match has started ("Game 1, time-in, 0-0-2") time-outs or a medical time-out may be taken.

41) In a 2 out of 3 games match, Team A wins the first game 11-7.

During game 2, Team A is losing 9-2 and is assessed a rule-based match forfeit.

What score(s) should be recorded on the scoresheet?

42) In a 2 out of 3 games match, 3 technical warnings equates to a game forfeit. In a single game to 15, the game forfeit is the same as the match forfeit.

43) Imparting spin during the release of the ball prior to striking the ball to serve is a fault and applies to both the volley serve and the drop serve.

44) Examples of a hinder include, but are not limited to, which of the following?

45) Any decision or ruling by a referee, including a judgment call, may be appealed by a player to the tournament director or their designee.

46) Who retains the right to require an apparel change when the apparel approximates the colour of the tournament ball?

47) If a player receives 3 technical warnings during a 2 out of 3 games match, the referee should impose a match forfeit.

48) Examples of a distraction may include, but are not limited to, which of the following?

49) When, in the judgement of the referee, a player distracts an opponent when the opponent is about to hit the ball, it is a fault against the player.

50) While positioned near the far sideline, a standing player serves the ball.

The referee is uncertain whether the player's foot was touching the playing surface outside the imaginary extension of the sideline at the moment the ball was served.

Before the return of serve, the referee calls for a replay.

This would be a valid call by the referee.

51) Who has the authority to remove a line judge?

52) When the referee calls the score, the 10-second count begins. If the server asks if they are the correct server, the referee should stop play, answer the question and re-call the score and begin a new 10-second count.

53) During a rally (not on the serve), Team A hits a shot that travels over the net, bounces on Team B's end, and then due to a strong backspin, the ball hits the horizontal bar on the net system before bouncing again on Team B's end.

Team B is unable to return the ball.

What should be the referee's call?

54) It is a replay if a wheelchair player has lifted one buttock off the wheelchair seat when they strike the ball.

55) In a 2 out of 3 games match, if a team commits 2 technical warnings and a technical foul, the match shall be forfeited.

56) Team A serves the ball. Team B hits a very sharply angled ball that catches the top of the net and rolls along it towards the sideline.

The ball continues to roll along the top of the net, then contacts the net post.

The ball then ricochets off the net post and falls in bounds on team A’s end of the court.

Team A is unable to make a play on the ball.

What is the result of the rally?

57) The paddle length cannot exceed 17 inches (43.18cm).

58) During the pre-match briefing, Team A has won the toss and elected to serve.

Which of the following options remains available for Team B?

59) Any malfunction of a net system during play shall be considered a hinder.

60) It is a fault if a wheelchair player does not return the ball before it bounces 3 times. The first bounce must be in the court, but the location of the second bounce can be anywhere on the playing surface.

61) Players may call faults on themself or their partner and make line calls to their disadvantage during or after the completion of a rally.

62) Midway through game 2, partners swing their paddles at the ball at the same time and one player's finger gets hit by his partner's paddle and is injured.

After a fifteen-minute medical time-out, the injured player says he believes he can still play.

The ref calls time-in and calls the score.

The injured player then request one of their remaining standard time-outs.

Should the referee allow the time-out?

63) If the referee is uncertain whether a server has violated any of the 3 components for a legal volley serve, the referee should immediately stop play and order a re-serve.

64) Once the game has begun, except during time-outs, any communication between a player and any person not on the court, if determined by the referee to be coaching, shall result in either a verbal warning or technical warning to the offending player or team.

65) After a rally has ended, the referee holds up her hand indicating that she is about to call the score.

The server then serves the ball before the referee starts to call the score.

This is a fault.

66) The duration of an equipment time-out is:

67) A player steps into the non-volley zone with her right foot and then jumps off the ground to hit a volley. Her right foot then lands outside the NVZ, but her left foot is still in the air when she volleys. This is a legal volley because only the foot that touches the NVZ is required to reestablish outside the zone before the volley strike.

68) The top of the net must be 34 inches +/- 0.25 inch (86.36 cm +/- 0.635 cm) high in the center and must be 36 inches +/- 0.25 inch (91.44 cm +/- 0.635 cm) high - measured where?

69) Other than non-volley zone violations, faults may only be committed when the ball is live or in-play.

70) Can an eligible adaptive player change to the two-bounce allowance option at the beginning of Game 2 in a two out of three games match?

71) After the rally has ended, if a line judge shows the blocked signal, the referee can immediately make a call if they clearly saw the ball land.

The referee shall canvass the remaining line judges to help make the call if they did not clearly see the ball land.

The referee does not have to wait on a player's appeal to canvass the remaining line judges.

72) In non-officiated play, the server's partner may call the score if the server is unable to call the score.

73) A tournament director may assess what penalty to a player or team who fails to comply with tournament or host facility rules while on the premises?

74) A ball is hit at an angle, bounces in the court, and travels beyond the sidelines.

The receiver manages to return the ball, hitting a low shot (below net level) around and outside the post into the opponent’s court.

This is a legal hit and the ball remains in play.

75) Are there any scenarios where a referee would call a fault before the serve occurs?