Funny tennis moments you'll never forget.

[Tennisguy3000]

A little embarrassing but here goes.... Two years ago I was practicing against the tennis wall beside our local courts. I had my new Head tennis racquet & wanted to try it out.

It was really hot & my hands were getting really sweaty & the handle was getting really slippery from all of my sweat. After hitting a hard looping forehand
topspin shot I realized that my racquet was no longer in my hands.... Instead of looking up to watch/track it my first thought was to look around to see if anyone saw this embarrassing blunder.

I didn't catch anyone watching me accidentally throw my new tennis racquet over the fence but I did get to look over my shoulder at the massive rows of thick pine trees & bushes which were its fateful landing spot.

I spent the next three hours of my 41 year old life climbing massive pine trees & fighting dense heavy bushes (along with flies, wasps, bees & squirrels) only to find nothing but birds nests & old tennis balls. People down below kept asking me what I was doing up there.... Covered in pine tree sap & leaves I would calmly tell them "looking for a tennis racquet". They must have thought I was crazy.

If you ever let go of your requet on an outdoor court don't worry about what others think.... Follow your Raquet, I only had to learn this life lesson once lol. I am ever so hopeful that a nice family of birds is enjoying the soft gut strings as a nice foundation for their birds nest... Yes, I never did find it ;-(

I loved that Stick

EDIT: Yes, I lost my new tennis raquet in the trees/bushes if that wasn't clear in the post ;-( {goes off to cry}

[Overdrive]

Originally Posted by Tennisguy3000

A little embarrassing but here goes.... Two years ago I was practicing against the tennis wall beside our local courts. I had my new Head tennis racquet & wanted to try it out.

It was really hot & my hands were getting really sweaty & the handle was getting really slippery from all of my sweat. After hitting a hard looping forehand
topspin shot I realized that my racquet was no longer in my hands.... Instead of looking up to watch/track it my first thought was to look around to see if anyone saw this embarrassing blunder.

I didn't catch anyone watching me accidentally throw my new tennis racquet over the fence but I did get to look over my shoulder at the massive rows of thick pine trees & bushes which were its fateful landing spot.

I spent the next three hours of my 41 year old life climbing massive pine trees & fighting dense heavy bushes (along with flies, wasps, bees & squirrels) only to find nothing but birds nests & old tennis balls. People down below kept asking me what I was doing up there.... Covered in pine tree sap & leaves I would calmly tell them "looking for a tennis racquet". They must have thought I was crazy.

If you ever let go of your requet on an outdoor court don't worry about what others think.... Follow your Raquet, I only had to learn this life lesson once lol.

I loved that Stick

Wait, you actually lost the racquet???

[Tennisguy3000]

Originally Posted by Overdrive

Wait, you actually lost the racquet???

Yes! ;-(

[NLBwell]

That's not funny then.
A racket was harmed in the making of the post.

[MesQueUnClub]

My friend and I were mostly just hitting at a nearby public court. We had a bunch of kids watching us and slowly most of them left and only one remained. After a while, when we took a drinks break, the kid (about 12 years old) came over and asked if we would lent him a racquet and hit with him. My friend being the nice guy gave him his relatively new racquet to play with an I went to the other side of the net to hit with the kid while my friend watched.

The kid goes to the other side, takes a almighty swing at the first ball and missed it. So he goes back as if to pick up the ball from the fence and bolts out the door at the back with the racquet and runs away with the racquet.

I found where the kid lived and got the abused racquet back with lots of apologies from the kid's mother a few days later. He was pissed b'cos some one else playing tennis there earlier asked the kids who were skate boarding inside the courts to leave.