The receiver waits behind his line, and a missed serve buys a second one

Oliver, three notes; two of them are here.

"when the opponent serves the player does not stand at the baseline - but
that's how it should be." setupPoint's receiving marks sat over a metre
INSIDE the court on both sides (22.5 near, 1.2 far) — where you stand to
attack a second serve, not where you wait for a first one. They mirror the
server's depth now, in the one line every serving mode shares.

"when serving results in an out there should be a second service... the
umpire should announce 2nd service and the player must get another chance."
True in tennis mode since forever and absent everywhere else: the duel, the
match and the death match had no service rule at all, so a serve long or
into the net was judged as an ordinary ground stroke — a point, and in the
match a point costs blood. The out branch of onBounce's interlude block
routes a serve to fault() instead, so the second serve, the HUD line, the
umpire and the double fault all come for free.

Three things it dragged out with it:
 - fault()'s double-fault branch called pointTo — TENNIS scoring — which in
   an interlude banks a number and skips the mode that owns the court. It
   goes through resolveInterlude there now. Nothing had ever reached that
   line from a duel or a match, because those modes could not fault.
 - startDuel never reset G.serveNum: harmless while a duel could not fault,
   the next duel's death loop the moment it can.
 - the match puts the body back on its receiving mark for the second serve
   (placeReceiver, split out of matchReady, which resets the serve number).

"Fault. Second service." is one voiceSeq — a second voice() call would be
dropped, one man one microphone. New recording via the usual say/afconvert.

The service BOX is still not enforced in the match, deliberately: this is
strictly more forgiving than what shipped. The lob gesture is OPEN 14.

4 new tests, 110 pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -71,6 +71,10 @@ export function startDuel() {
G.weapon = 0; // tennis rules for the duel: plain balls, no tins
G.mgT = 0; endBurst(); pellets.length = 0; // ...and a burst in progress is over. The umpire has restored order.
G.interlude = { introT: 2.4 }; // the intro beat: serving blocked while the umpire announces
G.serveNum = 1; // ...on a FIRST serve. A duel now faults (gameplay's onBounce), and
// nothing else resets it here — a fault in the last duel would have
// armed second-serve in the next one, which is the death loop this
// file already carries a note about, one mode over.
G.boy = null; // ...and the mop boy is waved off the court (sendBoy is barred for the duration)
ball.active = false; setupPoint();
zombieDuck(true); // fade the zombie music out for the 1:1 duel
@@ -420,18 +424,23 @@ export function matchReady() { // exported for net.js: a paired death match re-p
// when it is the one serving. setupPoint has just placed O — the invisible tennis body the serve
// machinery is driven off — on exactly that spot, so the zombie simply takes it. One source for
// the mark, which is what stops the picture and the ballistics disagreeing about where it stands.
if (rz) {
// WHERE A RETURNER ACTUALLY STANDS. The tennis mark is 1.3 m off the centre line, and from
// there he bisects nothing: the T is one step away and the corner of the box is four. Measured
// headless, a flush serve with full sway into that corner was returned 0 times out of 20 at
// EVERY rung of the ladder — Oliver: "the first ten zombies can be killed the moment you
// serve". He now stands out on the bisector of the two serves he has to cover, which is what a
// real receiver does, and O takes the same mark so the picture and the ballistics still agree.
if (score.server === 'P') O.x = Math.sign(O.x || 1) * TUNE.matchRecvX;
rz.x = O.x; rz.z = score.server === 'O' ? O.z : 1.0;
rz.pose = 'idle'; rz.swingT = -1; rz.swingCool = 0.3;
rz.showFrame = null; rz.serveHold = 0;
}
if (rz) placeReceiver(rz);
}
// WHERE A RETURNER ACTUALLY STANDS. The tennis mark is 1.3 m off the centre line, and from there he
// bisects nothing: the T is one step away and the corner of the box is four. Measured headless, a
// flush serve with full sway into that corner was returned 0 times out of 20 at EVERY rung of the
// ladder — Oliver: "the first ten zombies can be killed the moment you serve". He now stands out on
// the bisector of the two serves he has to cover, which is what a real receiver does, and O takes
// the same mark so the picture and the ballistics still agree.
// Split out of matchReady because a SECOND SERVE needs the same mark without matchReady's rest:
// that call resets G.serveNum, which is the one thing a fault has just spent (see fault()).
export function placeReceiver(rz = zombies.find(z => z.variant === 'r')) {
if (!rz) return;
if (score.server === 'P') O.x = Math.sign(O.x || 1) * TUNE.matchRecvX;
rz.x = O.x; rz.z = score.server === 'O' ? O.z : 1.0;
rz.pose = 'idle'; rz.swingT = -1; rz.swingCool = 0.3;
rz.showFrame = null; rz.serveHold = 0;
}
// ---- THE FALL. A point won knocks the body DOWN and it drags itself back up MINUS THE LIMB.