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10. Rally Situations

10.ATwo-Bounce Rule

The receiver must let the serve bounce before hitting it. Then the serving side must let that return bounce before hitting it. After those two bounces, volleys are allowed.

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Volleying the return of serveVolleying the third shot backReceiver volleys the serve

Myths about this

“Every ball has to bounce before you hit it.”

Inside this rule

10.A.1Fault: No Bounce by Receiver10.A.2Fault: No Bounce by Serving Side
See Rule 10.A in the official 2026 Rulebook ↗