The recent tournament enabled us to apply the new "Local Rule" against crossing a court divider during play. The rule was quite effective and we received many constructive comments. With that experience, we've added some clarifying language as follows:
A player crossing a court divider is a fault.
- Includes the imaginary line from divider to wall
- Regardless of whether the adjacent court is occupied
- Even if the ball is dead before momentum causes the player to cross divider (same as a kitchen fault)
- Does not apply to merely reaching over a divider,
nor safely retrieving a ball after a point has ended