Poorly written question. First, the sentence construction infers that the player standing out of bounds is in the air. Secondly, it's not clear which team is the other team. As I understand this, the rule is that if a player is struck by a ball on any part of the player's body, other than below the player's paddle-hand wrist, the ball is dead and a the rally looser is the player that was struck by the ball.
It shouldn't make any difference whether the player was struck by a ball that has bounced (in bounds), or the ball is in flight. Since a player is not allowed to catch a ball before it lands out of bounds (loss of rally), why would it be any difference if a player was standing out of bounds and interfered with ball flight before the ball contacted the ground out of bounds?
Poorly written question. First, the sentence construction infers that the player standing out of bounds is in the air. Secondly, it's not clear which team is the other team. As I understand this, the rule is that if a player is struck by a ball on any part of the player's body, other than below the player's paddle-hand wrist, the ball is dead and a the rally looser is the player that was struck by the ball.
It shouldn't make any difference whether the player was struck by a ball that has bounced (in bounds), or the ball is in flight. Since a player is not allowed to catch a ball before it lands out of bounds (loss of rally), why would it be any difference if a player was standing out of bounds and interfered with ball flight before the ball contacted the ground out of bounds?