Hi Dean,
I think I will start the ball rolling for the Q&A.
The question I have is how much talking can a player do on court during a match. If a player is constantly talking to his opponent after the rally has finished is that aloud?
I was marking a match and the player came off court after the first game complaining to me about his opponent talking after the rallies. I did not think the talking was excessive. Is there a limit to the amount before you need to ask the player to stop doing this.
I assume you are aloud a certain amount of banter between players.
Cheers
Alan
As long as the second player wasn’t upset by the chatting, I’d be inclined to let it go but as soon as there was a complaint, I’d mention it to the opponent and advise them to stop. If they then continued, I would deal with it under the code of conduct as it relates to unsporting conduct. I like to think that most players would get the message after a formal conduct warning but you could award one or more conduct strokes, a conduct game and even a conduct match if you felt there really was no other remedy. It would be a shame to end a match like that though and for such a relatively low level offence, I think conduct strokes should be the most you would give.Dean