Cindysphinx
G.O.A.T.
Lets be honest here... your original post was full of barbs... and an attack on male tennis players... what did you expect as a response? A few barbs back...
Let's be accurate here.
The guys here threw the first punch. I think it odd that they would get their knickers in a twist when someone points out that *men* have certain shortcomings as doubles partners also. Barb all you want -- I don't mind.
The reason I don't mind is that, bottom line, the guys who are playing 7.0 and 8.0 league mixed tennis are not prisoners. They are volunteering to do it. If they don't want to, then they don't have to. Their partners will often be double their age and play very differently than what these guys are used to.
So why are these men doing it? Presumably they are getting something out of it. I think it rather *small* of some of the boys here to *whine constantly* about how their female partners are Ever So Lame, yet keep signing on to play mixed. If you don't like that you must play with a female player of your own NTRP player in mixed (who will have less upper body strength, slower footspeed, be shorter, and perhaps be older), you could consider (1) not playing mixed, and (2) stop yer complaining.
You have to remember that mixed is a form of combo doubles. Combo doubles always involves a weaker player and a stronger player.
I don't want to play 6.5 ladies combo anymore. That is because I have reached the point where I don't get much out of it and it isn't enjoyable. Rather than keep signing up and then whining about it here, I just didn't sign up. That's how it is done.
And Raiden?
Suffice it to say that this 60 year old lady had hands at net that the whippersnappers can only dream about.