Footfault

"I don't know," came the reply; "unless he called a footfault on you!" ❋ Unknown (1921)

The line judge called footfault on Williams, who then waved her racquet in the judge's face and threatened to take the ` ` (f-ing) ball '' and shove it down her ❋ Unknown (2009)

"I don't think the person should have been calling the footfault in that situation ... '' ❋ Unknown (2010)

The International Federation has practically adopted a footfault rule for 1921 that prohibits the server lifting one foot unless replaced behind the base-line. ❋ Unknown (1921)

M ` Loughlin, the wonderful "California Comet," burst across the tennis sky with the first of those terrific cannon-ball deliveries that revolutionized the game, and caused the old-school players to send out hurry calls for a severe footfault rule or some way of stopping the threatened destruction of all ground strokes. ❋ Unknown (1921)

It is just as unfair to deliberately footfault as to miscall a ball, and it is wholly unnecessary. ❋ Unknown (1921)

It is unnecessary, and by placing your feet firmly before the service there is no need to footfault. ❋ Unknown (1921)

A revival of the footfault fiend, who desires to handicap the server, is international in character and, like the poor, "always with us." ❋ Unknown (1921)

The average footfault is due to carelessness, over-anxiety, or ignorance of the rule. ❋ Unknown (1921)

Williams and Washburn had a close call in the third round when Hardy and Voshell led 3-1 in the fifth set, but an unfortunate miss of an easy volley by Hardy and a footfault on game point at 3-4 and 30-40 by Voshell turned the tide and the favorites were safe. ❋ Unknown (1921)

I can only say that a footfault is crossing or touching the line with either foot before the ball is delivered, or it is a jump or step. ❋ Unknown (1921)

That was seen as proof that Williams didn't footfault and that she was wronged: McEnroe said so. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Some people argue that even if Williams did footfault at last year's U.S. ❋ Unknown (2010)

So I told him that when he said he didn't see a footfault, people took that to mean that he was saying Williams didn't footfault. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Williams was two points from defeat against Kim Clijsters when she was called for a footfault, prompting the volley of abuse against a line-judge.

Williams was two points from losing when she was called for footfault on her second serve.

Juan Martin del Potro, by the way, was called for a footfault in a crucial third-set tiebreaker last week during the ATP Finals.

Meanwhile, McEnroe, still the face of the game in many ways, was on TV ripping the line judge, saying he didn't see a footfault and that a judge doesn't make calls like that such in a crucial situation. ❋ Unknown (2009)