The Rules of Racketlon
Date: 2007-01-01
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For the revision history see end of document.
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Introduction

Racketlon is the sport in which you play your opponent in each of the four racket sports table tennis, badminton, squash and tennis. A Racketlon match contains four sets, one in each sport. The winner is the best all round racket player.

This document contains the official rules of the game of Racketlon according to the International Racketlon Federation.

Definition of Racketlon

The following three pinciples need to be fulfilled in order for a sport to qualify for the term Racketlon:

Any sport that fulfils the three principles above is Racketlon. Any other sport involving the combination of several racket sports might be termed "multi racket sport" - but is not Racketlon.

Set Order

Scoring

Serving & Ends of Court

Time Intervals & Continuous Play

Conduct on Court

For any act of misconduct (as judged by the umpire) such as swearing, threatening behaviour, racket abuse, delaying or dangerous play, etc, the player shall be penalised as follows:

Line Judging:

Injury

Recommendations

All other aspects of the game are regulated by the rules of the individual sports. See the following links:

The rules of Table Tennis (according to the International Table Tennis Federation)
The rules of Squash (according to the World Squash Federation)
The rules of Badminton (according to the International Badminton Federation)
The rules of Tennis (according to the International Tennis Federation)

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Revision history:
2001-08-01: first version
2002-05-17: margin-of-two (22-20) counting introduced (see
discussion); links added to rules
2002-12-03: gummiarm tiebreak introduced (see
discussion)
2004-05-27:
Clarified that this document contains the official rules of the IRF.
Added a definition of Racketlon.
Added a note to clarify that group play might require that matches are played to the end eventhough they are already decided.
Modified the description of the single point tie-break to clarify that the winner of the lot might also choose which side to play on. (Same thing clarified for the tossing at the beginning of each set).
Added rules about breaks (at 11 and between sports) according to IRF decisions.
Added a recommendation about protective glasses according to an IRF decision.
2004-09-27:
Added rules on Time Intervals, Conduct on Court, Injury and Line Judging according to IRF suggestions (see
analysis.doc)
2005-02-17:
Changed the order of sports so that squash and badminton switched place into tt-ba-sq-te - according to an IRF decision. (see
analysis)
2007-01-01
Two format changes according to AGM decisions in Vienna 2006-11-25 (see
newsitem):
-The serve games shortened from 5 to 2 serves.
-A single toss rule introduced implying alternating "start-to-serve" advantages.

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