Gamesmanship or Crazy

[Surecatch]

I played a guy that kept screaming at some kids for sitting on the nets at an adjacent court. I mean screaming, threatening to find their parents... One time I've got me head down getting ready to wind up for a serve and he just shrieks at them and then started chasing them around. And he screamed loudly after every one of his unforced errors.

Completely rattled me, and I don't think he was purposely gamesmanshipping me...he's just a nut.

[christo]

Originally Posted by IA-SteveB

There are lots of fruit cakes in tennis and you met another one. This sport has far more weird/uptight people than any other sport I have participated in.

Ain't that the truth. I played team sports for years and was astonished at the lack of honesty and sportsmanship I encountered in competitive tennis. Some of the crap I've seen would get you a punch in the nose in a lot of places

[Say Chi Sin Lo]

Originally Posted by mikeler

Cheating on time is his big thing.

Cheating on time, blatant on-court coaching (Challeg...... (uncle shakes his head in the crowd)... i meant VAMOS!), blatant violations of when he can step off the court (as in, if it ain't your serve, you don't leave. If you have to sh!t your pants from all that butt picking, too bad.), crying everytime conditions aren't exactly perfect for him, just to name a few.

Ok, back to OP's post, I think the dude is just a nut case. Drop-shotting in rallies is just a ******-bag move.

[tennis tom]

Originally Posted by christo

... I played team sports for years and was astonished at the lack of honesty and sportsmanship I encountered in competitive tennis.

I agree with you pretty much at the rec/club level. A lot of these folks didn't participate in team sports when young and took up tennis primarily for social purposes. In the Senior Age Group tournaments, there's very little cheating or poor sportsmanship.

How are you defining "competitive" tennis?

[TennisCJC]

Nut job. Tennis seems to atrack them.

[Govnor]

exclusively hitting drop shots in a warm up it indeed nuts!