Yeah, I'm not disputing that the rules are insufficient.
You can't have differing interpretation for partially hidden balls during service, that's farce.
But in THIS instance it was deemed to be ok.
So where is the written explanation from ITTF for this?
We can have opinions on what would make more sense or what would be preferred but without the written explanation for whats actually what you can't definitively say that you are correct and someone else is wrong.
As long as different outcomes are being produced from the same happening we have a real grey area 🤷
Adam was commenting on this in the game where Dang Qiu was playing Baldwin and the empire called out Baldwin for a hidden serve. He could be wrong but I am sure for him and his co-commentator to be saying this in detail while waiting for TTR would like mean he has consulted on this and is correct. The TTR in this even uses AI and will correct for the actual view of the receiver as what he will see in his position. For the serve to be deem illegal, it has to be totally covered anytime throughout the serve before the contact of the servers blade. If even a tiny bit of the ball can be seen, it is deem to be legal.
So the question as many is asking is that this rule should be changed. I agree but even if it is changed to the able at any time during the serve cannot be even partially covered, we will still get this disagreement if it is illegal or legal unless there is TTR and I believe TTR in any non world tournament of even local league games is quite far from reality. Also I am not sure what is the accuracy of the AI TTR to take into account of the view from the receiver. 90% 95%, but it is definitely a improvement over not having that.
