Bela: a tendency to serve a little too high…

While the pressure was at its height in the Qatar Major semi-final Premier Padel which pitted Bela/Sanyo against Momo/Ruiz, the referee helped by the VAR knew how to make the right decision: to sanction Fernando Belasteguin because of a serve well above the hip.

In the 3rd set, at 4/3 30/0, Alex Ruiz believes that Fernando Belasteguin's commitment is not legal. It must be said that this service left very quickly and according to the Spaniard from far too high. Decision-making is surprisingly slow while on the screen there seems to be no doubt.

As a reminder, the service must be done "with a spoon", at belt height, or below the belt , and after rebound. But here, the players tend to take some largesse with the services, and are not always sanctioned.

The example here of Bela is striking because he is, a regular like others, of these serves at the limit and sometimes a little more, and is ultimately not sanctioned enough... Do you think that referees should pay more attention to commitments ?

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Franck Binisti