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    The document provides details on new hand signals being implemented for illegal table tennis serves. It includes a link to a video demonstrating the 7 new signals, which cover issues such as the ball not rising high enough, not resting freely on the server's hand, being below the surface or inside the end line, not moving vertically, and being hidden from the receiver. Referees and umpires are asked to view the video and familiarize themselves with the new standardized signals by July 1st.

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    The document provides details on new hand signals being implemented for illegal table tennis serves. It includes a link to a video demonstrating the 7 new signals, which cover issues such as the ball not rising high enough, not resting freely on the server's hand, being below the surface or inside the end line, not moving vertically, and being hidden from the receiver. Referees and umpires are asked to view the video and familiarize themselves with the new standardized signals by July 1st.

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    The document provides details on new hand signals being implemented for illegal table tennis serves. It includes a link to a video demonstrating the 7 new signals, which cover issues such as the ball not rising high enough, not resting freely on the server's hand, being below the surface or inside the end line, not moving vertically, and being hidden from the receiver. Referees and umpires are asked to view the video and familiarize themselves with the new standardized signals by July 1st.

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    NEW HAND SIGNALS FOR ILLEGAL SERVICES

    Dear Madam/Sir/Referees/Umpires,

    With effect from 1 July 2016, all umpires are to use the new hand signals
    for illegal services. There were some amendments made to an earlier
    video on the hand signals for illegal services. Appended below is the link
    to the new hand signals for illegal services.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ibSKS2ZpVM

    Please view the video together with the explanatory notes attached.

    Please help to disseminate this information to all your umpires and


    referees. Thank you.

    Ronald Wee Norman Tang Werner Thury

    ronaldwee22@gmail.com normtang12@yahoo.ca w.thury@oettv.org


    +65 97352058 +1 613 523 4442 +43 699 11032189
    EXPLANATORY NOTES ON NEW HAND SIGNALS FOR
    ILLEGAL SERVICES

    1. The judgment on illegal services is one of the most challenging parts


    of table tennis officiating as there are various kinds of illegal service
    actions that cannot be expressed by a single hand signal. Thus, it is
    necessary to create various hand signals correspondent to the illegal
    services.

    2. The hand signals were developed and made into videos. The principle
    considerations are as follows:

    a. It should be simple and logical.

    b. It must be easy to understand

    c. It must be easy to implement.

    3. The umpire or assistant umpire will first show the hand signal for
    illegal service. If the player question or ask for clarification, the umpire or
    assistant umpire will verbally communicate using the simple term i.e. Not
    high enough or below the playing surface.

    4. Appended below are the 7 new hand signals for illegal services with
    short explanation.
    1. If the ball does not rise at least 16cm after leaving the palm of the
    free hand, umpire or assistant umpire shall do:
    Verbal communication: Not high enough
    Hand signal: Figure 1

    Figure 1 Not high enough

    2. If service does not start with the ball resting freely on the open palm
    of server’s stationary free hand, umpire or assistant umpire shall do:
    Verbal communication: Palm not opened
    Hand signal: Figure 2

    Figure 2 Palm not opened


    3. If service start with the ball resting freely on the fingers of server’s
    stationary free hand, umpire or assistant umpire shall do:
    Verbal communication: Ball resting on the fingers
    Hand signal: Figure 3

    Figure 3 Ball resting on the fingers

    4. If the ball is under the level of the playing surface from the start of
    service until it is struck, umpire or assistant umpire shall do:
    Verbal communication: Below the playing surface
    Hand signal: Figure 4

    Figure 4 Below the playing surface


    5. If the ball is inside the server’s end line from the start of service until
    it is struck or is struck inside the server’s end line, umpire or assistant
    umpire shall do:
    Verbal communication: Inside the end line
    Hand signal: Figure 5

    Figure 5 Inside the end line

    6. If the ball does not project near vertically upwards, umpire or


    assistant umpire shall do:
    Verbal communication: Not vertically
    Hand signal: from Figure 6(1) to Figure 6(2) using an arc

    Figure 6(1) Not vertically Figure 6(2) Not vertically


    7. If the ball is hidden from the receiver by the server or his or her
    doubles partner or by anything they wear or carry, umpire or assistant
    umpire shall do:
    Verbal communication: Hidden by what or whom (elbow, shoulder,
    head or partner)
    Hand signal: Figure 7

    Figure 7 Hidden by what or whom


    If the player asks the reason why or where, the umpire will use his or her
    index finger to show it. For example: If the ball is hidden from the
    receiver by the server’s shoulder, the umpire’s action is as follows:
    Verbal communication: Hidden by shoulder
    Hand signal: Figure 7(1)

    Figure 7(1) Verbal communication: Hidden by shoulder

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