<P> After each game, players switch sides of the table . In the last possible game of a match, for example the seventh game in a best of seven matches, players change ends when the first player scores five points, regardless of whose turn it is to serve . Service is subject to change on game point of the match . Upon the possible last point of the match, the player with the lesser score serves . If the sequence of serving and receiving is out of turn or the ends are not changed, points scored in the wrong situation are still calculated and the game shall be resumed with the order at the score that has been reached . </P> <P> In addition to games between individual players, pairs may also play table tennis . Singles and doubles are both played in international competition, including the Olympic Games since 1988 and the Commonwealth Games since 2002 . In 2005, the ITTF announced that doubles table tennis only was featured as a part of team events in the 2008 Olympics . </P> <P> In doubles, all the rules of single play are applied except for the following . </P> <Dl> <Dd> A line painted along the long axis of the table to create doubles courts bisects the table . This line's only purpose is to facilitate the doubles service rule, which is that service must originate from the right hand "box" in such a way that the first bounce of the serve bounces once in said right hand box and then must bounce at least once in the opponent side's right hand box (far left box for server), or the receiving pair score a point . </Dd> </Dl>

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