Serving when the ball is falling

Your illegal serve is really cool

Has anyone ever serves around the net, as the rule explicitly allows?

Very difficult thing to do.  Hard to get enough sidespin to make it come back.  Perhaps outdoors with a bit of wind assistance 

You should hold a contest! Whoever pulls it off indoors and gets it on tape receives a pingskills t-shirt and eternal glory 

Graeme Ireland our Rules guru, has just contacted up to let us know that the rule quoted above has been changed:

I was just looking at the Rules questions in Ask the Coach and I noticed that you quoted an old rule when answering the question on Serving when the ball is falling. All references to “over or around the net assembly” were removed last year as many people found it confusing. They only read the actual rule, not realising that “over or around” was defined earlier. The new rule is:

2.06.03                  As the ball is falling the server shall strike it so that it touches first his or her court and then, touches directly the receiver's court; in doubles, the ball shall touch successively the right half court of server and receiver.

A similar change was made in several other places and the following was added under 2.10 - A Point:

2.10.01.05            if the ball, after being struck by an opponent, passes through the net or between the net and the net post or between the net and playing surface;

Nice illegal serve