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Originally Posted by housenuts
Do you see a situation where the opponent ever challenges that the server foot faulted? Pretty hard to see from the receivers side.
I don't think I've ever seen a player complain to an ump about their opponent foot faulting, it's so hard to see.
When I was a kid I used to play at the park with my brother and/or a friend from school. There was a regular there, middle aged guy, who we sometimes would hit with for a few minutes before his friend showed up, and we played doubles with them once or twice. The guy stepped over the line 6-8 inches on every serve he ever hit, it was kinda funny actually. But you could barely see it when returning unless you were really looking at his feet.
I doubt the pros are even thinking about looking at the servers feet when they're returning, they're going to be focused on the toss and the shoulder turn to try to read where the serve is going.