Interesting tennis match the otehr night, after having to start at the bottom of the league again after taking some holidays, I resumed last week with some players I would expect to beat very easily.
My approach to this is to just play my own game, play the shots I would normally play and concentrate my game and not worry about the score. So I was drawn against this oldish lady who to be honest was compete and utter rubbish.
I could have been a complete ass and uses drop shots etc to make her look like a fool, but did not as I dont play the drop shot very often against better players so it wouldnt have been my type of game anyway. I was more worried about accuracy and hitting the ball deep and to the corners. I wasnt showing much emotion as it was a more of a practice than anything. Anyway.. its a case of first to 9 for these matches, and I got to 7-0 up. No great accomplishment as she was carp.
At the change of ends she decided to throw a bit of a hissy fit at me for not making more of a match of it and hitting the ball back to her so we could have 'more of a hit', she said I could continue playing as I was and make it a waste of time for her to attend or start playing nicer and make it worth her while.
I just replied that I was just concentrating on my own game.
Would you have lowered the standard of your game to facilitate her request or decided that a competition match is not the place to give someone else a practice.
By the way who gets promoted to the next highest league can be decided on a games countback if the matches won is even.. so techically we winning 9-0 might matter as opposed to winning 9-1 or 9-2.
I was talking to someone about this and they berated me for lack of sportsmanship, whereas when I play a competitive match, I play to win.
My approach to this is to just play my own game, play the shots I would normally play and concentrate my game and not worry about the score. So I was drawn against this oldish lady who to be honest was compete and utter rubbish.
I could have been a complete ass and uses drop shots etc to make her look like a fool, but did not as I dont play the drop shot very often against better players so it wouldnt have been my type of game anyway. I was more worried about accuracy and hitting the ball deep and to the corners. I wasnt showing much emotion as it was a more of a practice than anything. Anyway.. its a case of first to 9 for these matches, and I got to 7-0 up. No great accomplishment as she was carp.
At the change of ends she decided to throw a bit of a hissy fit at me for not making more of a match of it and hitting the ball back to her so we could have 'more of a hit', she said I could continue playing as I was and make it a waste of time for her to attend or start playing nicer and make it worth her while.
I just replied that I was just concentrating on my own game.
Would you have lowered the standard of your game to facilitate her request or decided that a competition match is not the place to give someone else a practice.
By the way who gets promoted to the next highest league can be decided on a games countback if the matches won is even.. so techically we winning 9-0 might matter as opposed to winning 9-1 or 9-2.
I was talking to someone about this and they berated me for lack of sportsmanship, whereas when I play a competitive match, I play to win.
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