How To Serve In Pickleball Serving Rules. Every pickleball game, and every rally within a pickleball game, starts with a serve. In pickleball you must serve underhand while holding the paddle below your waist.
Standing in front of the baseline. I tried this on dec 23 with my usual pickleball group and there were some who had reservations about the legality but none could cite anything in the provisional rules that require my feet to be on the ground when releasing the ball in the drop serve…i do acknowledge that at least one foot must be on the ground and outside of the baseline and extensions of the centerline and sideline when i. Ok, so what i’m talking about is of course an underhand serve, because as you know, in pickleball, you have to contact the ball below your waist and below your wrist.
The paddle’s highest part has to be below your wrist when you’re making contact with the ball.
Otherwise, this is a serving fault. We shall cover the exact motion of serving and what makes a serve legal and illegal in a later section. Standing in front of the baseline. Here is what you need to know: