3.  Game
    A game shall be fifteen points; that is, the player scoring fifteen
points will win the game, except in the event both players tie (a) at “thirteen all,” the player who has first reached the score of thirteen will elect one of the following before proceeding with the game:  1) “set five”—­making the game eighteen points, 2) “set three”—­making the game sixteen points, 3) “no set”—­making the game fifteen points—­or b) at “fourteen all,” providing the score has not been “thirteen all,” the player who has first reached fourteen points will elect one of the following before proceeding with the game:  1) “set three”—­making the game seventeen points, 2) “no set”—­making the game fifteen points.

4.  Match
    Matches shall be the best three out of five games.

5.  Server
    Before a match begins, it shall be decided by a spin of a racquet by
the players as to which player shall serve first.  Thereafter, when the server loses a point, his opponent becomes the server.  The winner of a game shall serve first at the beginning of the following game.

6.  Service
    The server shall stand behind the service line with both feet on the
floor and not touching or straddling the line, and serve the ball against the front wall above the front-wall service line and below the 16-ft. [4877mm] line before it touches any other part of the court, so that it shall drop directly, or off the side wall, into his opponent’s court in front of the floor service line without either touching the floor service line or the center line. 
    If the server does not so serve, it is a fault, and if it be the
first fault, the server shall serve again from the same side.  If the server makes two consecutive faults, he loses that point. 
    The server has the option of electing the side from which he shall
commence serving and thereafter, until he loses the service, he shall alternate between both sides of the court in serving.  If the server serves from the wrong side of court, there shall be no penalty and if the receiver makes no attempt to return the ball the point shall be replayed from the proper court. 
    When one service fault has been called and play for any reason
whatsoever has stopped, when play is resumed the first fault does not stand and the server is entitled to two services.

7.  Return of service and subsequent play
    (a) To make a valid return of service the ball must be struck after
the first bounce and before the second bounce, and reach the front wall on the fly above the telltale and below the 16-ft. line; in so doing it may touch any wall or walls within the court before or after reaching the front wall, except as in (e), below.  A service fault may not be played.  If a fair service is not so returned, it shall count as a point for the server and he shall then serve from the other