Stefanos Tsitsipas' Bizzare Shot Over the Net Hits Umpire's Chair! | Australian Open 2024

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Stefanos Tsisipas reaches over the net, hitting the umpires chair with is shot against Zizou Bergs in the first round of the Australian Open 2024.

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  9. New training regime for all tennis players……run full speed to the net, stop on a dime, strike the ball just as it hangs in mid-air (on the opponent’s side), pirouette, hop on one foot and balance to win the point. 🎾😄

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  13. The rule is that you can do anything so long as you don't contact the "playing area" other than your own while the ball is still in play. Tsitsipas was allowed to touch anything that his ball would be out if it touched: all of his side of the court, all of the court around the singles lines of his opponent's court, all of the net outside the singles stick (which stands in the doubles alley three feet past the singles sideline), the net post, the umpire chair, etc. So a player could run to the net and jump over the playing area with a hand on the part of the net outside the singles stick, land on the opponent's doubles alley, and then hit the ball. If the player's racket, shoe, shirt, hand, etc. touches the playing part of the net, or the singles stick, or the opponent's court's playing area, while the ball is still in play, that's a "touch" and is loss-of-point. But if the touch happens after the ball is out of play, it's allowed. So if the ball bounces twice after the hit (or hits the opponent, or after the first bounce touches a permanent fixture, like the umpire chair in this video), the player then can touch any of the playing-area items. Tsitsipas's shot was amazing – the best I've ever seen for this rule – but theoretically could have been far more complicated and still won him the point. There have been many videos of spin-shots like Berg's bouncing very high with both players near the net. The player could theoretically have time to run around the net post, or jump over the net with a hand on the net next to the post, stand in the opponent's doubles alley, and hit the ball into the opponent's chest or back into the net, and then step into the opponent's court. In umpire classes we were shown a staged video of a player simply reaching over the net and hitting the spinning ball back into the net, where of course the opponent had no chance at it.
    The most amazing thing about the Tsitsipas shot was that Tsitsipas knew this rule. Based on 40 years of televised matches and thousands of YouTube videos, I'd estimate that 95% of pros don't know some of the simple rules, much less the odd ones. Tsitsipas's knowledge and action were not just the shot of the year, they were the play of the century!

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