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the reason I said "clearly definite rules" is because funnily enough the rule states you should throw the ball almost straight so somebody can potentially argue , it you throw it up absolutely straight ... its illegal ... LOL
Haha true. You can't tell people that they should toss straight up though. Or that the ball should be like max 5 cm away from going straight up, it would be even worse to measure that. If there are no rules, people will hide their serves and gain an illegal advantage. Rules protecting against this however are very hard to check on during the match, because it all goes just too fast and the umpires have a bad angle of view. So this is merely the responsibility of the players, to not get any unfair advantage out of their serves. I don't think it is possible to create watertight rules about this that can be used effectively. But if you just check the difference between serves 10 years ago and serves now, at least you can conclude that big part of the unfair advantages people gained back then are gone now. However you can't rule out everything I'm afraid.