Let!

Sun, 04/08/2007 - 16:00 — Tom

If a let is called, the rally is stopped and replayed with no change to the score. Lets may occur due to some unexpected disturbance such as a shuttlecock landing on court (having been hit there by players on an adjacent court). If the receiver is not ready when the service is delivered, a let shall be called; yet if the receiver makes any attempt to return the shuttlecock, he shall be judged to have been ready. There is no let if the shuttlecock hits the tape (even on service).

I always thought this was a Flemish term - but I guess I can shout "let" now when a jeans-wearing non-player walks over the court. ;) [Tom]