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Appropriate clothing and court shoes must be worn.
6. Athletes must have prior pickleball experience of having played on a regular basis for at least the past year and provide their skill level during registration. 7. The serve must be made underhand. Underhand- The player’s arm must be moving in forward and upward arc with the palm turned upward or downward. 8. Paddle contact with the ball must be below the server’s waist (navel level). 9. The serve is initiated with at least one foot behind the baseline. 10. Neither foot may contact the baseline or court until after the ball is struck. 11. The serve is made diagonally crosscourt and must land within the confines of the opposite diagonal court. 12. Drop Serve: Servers must release the ball from one of the server’s hands or dropped off the server's paddle face from any natural (unaided) height and hit the ball after the ball bounces. There is no restriction how many times the ball can bounce nor where the ball can bounce on the playing surface. The server’s release of the ball must be visible to the referee and the receiver. If the drop serve is used, the ball may be struck with either a forehand or backhand motion without any other restriction i.e., the location restrictions of the ball and paddle. 13. Only one serve attempt is allowed. 14. The entire score must be called before the server begins his or her service motion. 15. Service Sequence 16. Both players on the serving doubles team have the opportunity to serve and score points until they commit a fault *(except for the first service sequence of each new game). 17. The first serve of each side-out is made from the right-hand court. The service motion begins with the server’s arm movement initiating the swing, backward, or forward to contact the ball. 18. In doubles, the starting server may be changed before the start of any game with notice given to the referee. 19. If a point is scored, the server switches sides and the server initiate the next serve from the left-hand court.
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