{"id":433,"date":"2018-01-17T19:49:30","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T01:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pickleball-huntsville.com\/blog\/?p=433"},"modified":"2018-05-03T21:43:54","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T03:43:54","slug":"is-that-ball-in-or-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pickleball-huntsville.schuckman.top\/blog\/2018\/01\/17\/is-that-ball-in-or-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Is that ball in or out?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New players sometimes have difficulty determining if the ball is in bounds or out of bounds, especially players who have played tennis for many years.\u00a0 The rules for tennis are different than the rules for pickleball.\u00a0 Here is the verbiage and an image from the 2018 official rulebook.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6.C. A ball contacting the playing surface outside of the<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> baseline or sideline, even though the edge of the ball<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> overlaps the line, is considered out of bounds (see the<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Figure below).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pickleball-huntsville.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ball_in_or_out.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pickleball-huntsville.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ball_in_or_out.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pickleball-huntsville.schuckman.top\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ball_in_or_out.png 600w, https:\/\/pickleball-huntsville.schuckman.top\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ball_in_or_out-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hopefully this guideline will clarify the rules.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vSn5Kcjnt7k&amp;feature=youtu.be\">Click Here<\/a> to view a video about line calls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New players sometimes have difficulty determining if the ball is in bounds or out of bounds, especially players who have played tennis for many years.\u00a0 The rules for tennis are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pickleball-huntsville.schuckman.top\/blog\/2018\/01\/17\/is-that-ball-in-or-out\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is that ball in or out?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-instruction"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-06 08:28:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickleball-huntsville.schuckman.top\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickleball-huntsville.schuckman.top\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickleball-huntsville.schuckman.top\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickleball-huntsville.schuckman.top\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickleball-huntsville.schuckman.top\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pickleball-huntsville.schuckman.top\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"https:\/\/pickleball-huntsville.schuckman.top\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickleball-huntsville.schuckman.top\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickleball-huntsville.schuckman.top\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickleball-huntsville.schuckman.top\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}