Within the competitive field of tennis, the regulations contemplate the concept of hindrance, a term that refers to the creation of an obstacle or hindrance for the opponent.
This rule is applied to sanction any deliberate action, gesture, sound or shout that a tennis player performs with the intention of distracting, harming or bothering his rival in the middle of the dispute of a point.
When the chair umpire reaches the determination that interference of this nature has actually occurred, the regulation establishes that the player who caused said hindrance automatically loses the point that was being disputed.
