Please read the previous post to understand more fully the impact of this post...
SCENARIO: In an ITA men's dual match, Player A calls out and then changes his mind and continues to play the point. The chair official does nothing and goes along with the "change of mind". Player B keeps playing but subsequently loses the point.
What are your options:
1. Player A loses the point because he changed his call. End of discussion.
2. The Chair official should have stopped play the moment that an out call was made.
3. Ignore the outcall since the player changed his mind and then offer a gatoraide to the player that lost the point.
NOTE: It is my understanding that once a call has been spoken or signaled, then play should be stopped. If a player plays an out ball and then changes his mind but never give an out call, then its his mistake and play should continue. His opponent should then immediately thank Jesus for the gift he has just received...
Of course you can see from the picture below what the player will do if you get it wrong...
5 comments:
The first answer is #2: the official should have stopped play and awarded the point to Player B.
HOWEVER, it appears that you are saying that the official did nothing and allowed the point to continue. If player B also did nothing and continued play then he cannot claim a hinderance multiple shots later AFTER he loses the point.
Based on your opening paragraph of this scenario, player B loses the point and the chair is going to justifiably get an earful from Player B's coach.
Interesting . . . . tell us what actually happened in Oklahoma.
Of course we all should remember that things are not the same north of the Red River...
I believe the OU coach squeezed out a diamond after witnessing such an atrosity.
I just picked this up from the wire for my fellow ITA officials.
Eastern Michigan's coach Ryan Ray protested the lineup of Syracuse's head coach Luke Jensen and last week the protest was upheld by the ITA. Eastern is now showing what was originally a 4-3 loss as a win on their results page, but Syracuse has not changed their win to a loss. The No. 5 player in question, C.C. Sardinha, has played No. 1 in Syracuse's last two matches against Columbia and Princeton.
The ITA rules clearly state no point is to be replayed.
If A made the call loud enough for all to hear then B wins the point, regardless of the change of call or not.
If B did not directly stop the point then it was played in good faith and goes to who won the point, which would be "A"
Gets very tricky, did Player A make a pronounced call for all to hear?
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