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Q:For a ball that does not bounce, but skids or slides across the table, is this still a playable ball?

- submitted bu Louie Botch on 26 Feb 97

A: If, by "playable', you mean "returnable", than the my educated guess tells me, the answer, most probably, shoud be "it is not". The player who manages to make a return that way, and good players can do that, scores a point.

- answered by Paul Kovac - your friendly on-line USATT umpire