Is this legal in tennis?

Question

The other day I was playing a friendly doubles match, and when I hit the ball at my opponent, she swung at it and it hit her racket then it her in the face. Then the ball bounced off her face and back into our side of the court. I thought that the point is automatically lost if it touches your body. We replayed the point because we couldn't decide. Whose point would it have been?

Answer 1

The point is yours.

1-The ball cannot touch any part of the player's body.

2-You cannot hit the ball twice.

Answer 2

The point was yours.  Any time the ball touches a player that player automatically loses the point.  One note that many players do not know is that if it hits your hand on your racquet you lose the point as well.  The rule is in the USTA Friend at Court in the Rules of Tennis Section.  It's rule 24 subset i.

Answer 3

You did the right thing playing it out. I'm on my school's tennis team and if it would have hit her face before it hit her racket then it would have been their point. But since it hit the racket first then point wise it doesn't matter that it hit her face.

Answer 4

If the tennis ball touches any part of your body, including your face, it's automatically the other persons point.

Answer 5

Your point. The moment the ball touched her face or body, the player has lost that point.

Answer 6

Answered sufficiently. I think the main point these responses are trying to get at is:

Aim it at her face more often!

When I played my first doubles match in high school my friend (who was a lot better than me) told me to hit the ball to this big kid who was poaching at the net. But I took that as hit it AT him not TO him . So I get a nice high-bouncing short ball and pelt it right into his chest.  I gave my friend a thumbs up and everyone cracked up cause I didn't know any better. I got yelled at for unsportsman like conduct, haha. Won the point though.

Answer 7

Your opponent's lost the point.  Technically if it touches any part of the body, the point is lost, regardless of if the ball bounces back in play.

I would have liked to have seen that though...that sounded funny.

Answer 8

I am pretty sure that you can just keep playing but it could be their point because it went back to your side.

Answer 9

If you touch the ball while it is in play, with anything but the racquet, you lose the point

Answer 10

its your point i know it happened to me it hit the racket and then me in the face it it went on the other side and they didnt get it cause they were laughing too hard so we called it as our point but they said no so they called the judge and he said that its their point.

Answer 11

it would have been your point; if a tennis ball touches any part of ur body, u automatically lose the point... trust me i play tennis... haha