Why was the referee counting the rallies?

[Kopp]

 

[zeio]

She gets paid by the number of strokes in overtime.

 

[lodro]

This rule, (forgot the name) has been invented to cater for the ever decreasing
attention span of humans and the ever increasing television costs.
It is there to shorten the long rallies between defensive players.
Once the third referee is called in, he/she will stay in to the very end of the match. After 15 exchanges in the rally the point is awarded to the receiver. (I think)

 

[JHB]

It's called the "expedite" rule. It apparently had to be invoked in our local league once when a match between two lady defenders was threatening to keep everyone there until 1 a.m.

 

[ttarc]

This rule, (forgot the name) has been invented to cater for the ever decreasing
attention span of humans and the ever increasing television costs.
It is there to shorten the long rallies between defensive players.
Once the third referee is called in, he/she will stay in to the very end of the match. After 15 exchanges in the rally the point is awarded to the receiver. (I think)

Alojzy Ehrlich - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Farkas Paneth - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

"During the 1936 World Table Tennis Championships, which took place in Prague, Ehrlich became famous after a record-breaking one-point exchange with Romanian player Paneth Farkas. The exchange lasted two hours and 12 minutes; after 70 minutes the score was 0-0.[7] Both players suffered, but neither wanted to give up. Altogether, the ball crossed the net more than 12,000 times. After two hours, Farkas' arm began to freeze, and he lost the first point.[7] The referee, Gábor Diner, had to be replaced during the match, because his neck was so sore."

All rule changes since then can be found on https://www.allabouttabletennis.com/basic-table-tennis-rule.html

 

[Kopp]

All rule changes since then can be found on https://www.allabouttabletennis.com/basic-table-tennis-rule.html

Good reading, thanks.

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

It's called umpire
Referee and assistant referee don't umpire any games.
they overseas all the umpires

a third umpire will be called when the "expedite" rule comes into play.

 

[Der_Echte]

Get TECHNICAL will we Tony ???!!!

Haha, I am the same way.

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Get TECHNICAL will we Tony ???!!!

Haha, I am the same way.

i don't normally do that, but seems like tons of people don't know that you get a referee and an umpire in a tournament.