Front wall
The short version
The wall the ball must hit first.
Related
Where it shows up
- Four-wall · Rule 1.3 Objective …. A rally is won when one player is unable to return the opponent’s shot to the front wall before it touches the floor twice, or when a player returns the ball so that it…
- Four-wall · Rule 2.1 Courts …e is parallel to the front and back walls. Its outside edge is 20 feet from the front wall. 2) Service line. The service line is parallel to the short line and its outsid…
- Four-wall · Rule 4.1 Serve …ck by either hand or fist before the ball bounces twice so that it contacts the front wall first and on the rebound contacts the floor behind the short line, either with …
- Four-wall · Rule 4.3 Defective serves …so, if the served ball hits the server’s partner on the fly rebounding from the front wall or from the front wall and a side wall while the server’s partner is in a legal…
- Four-wall · Rule 4.4 Return of Serve …nd before the ball touches the floor the second time, to return the ball to the front wall either directly or after it has touched one or both side walls, the back wall, …
- Four-wall · Rule 4.6 Rally …the floor twice before being hit. 2) After contact, the ball fails to reach the front wall before touching the floor. 3) The ball goes off a player’s hand or fist into th…
- Four-wall · Rule 4.7 Dead-ball Hinders …pponent. When a returned ball touches an opponent on the fly before hitting the front wall, and the shot obviously would not have reached the front wall on the fly, the p…
- Four-wall · Rule 4.8 Avoidable hinders …nnot line up directly in front of the opponent’s shot on a straight path to the front wall, parallel to the side walls. If a player assumes such a position and there is a…
- Four-wall · Rule 2.1-three Courts … follows: Add 6) Long Line. The outer edge of the long line is 40 feet from the front wall and runs parallel with the front wall and service zone lines. Under Rule 2.4 Ge…
Ref questions
A "court hinder" (e.g., the ball hits a known obstruction or a bad joint):
Answer: Replay the rally
A court hinder is replayed.
In four-wall, the receiving line (dashed) is:
Answer: 5 ft behind the short line
The receiving line is 5 ft behind the short line.
In one-wall, the long line marks:
Answer: The back boundary of the court
The long line is the back boundary.