You shouldn't even call yourself a competitor. You were winning, of course all is well. Then the opponent was smart enough to realize his/her current strategy isn't working and decides to change it. It works, throws you off the game, the minute you start losing, you b**** about it. What did you think would accomplish by "warning" him? Not only is that unsportsmanlike, but he's already won by getting into your fragile head.
Now that you're down by a game, you decide to walk off. A true competitor would try to extend the set, if not then move onto the second set and start fresh, or accept defeat and learn from it.
This is like me walking off because my opponent keeps hitting high to my one-hander.
There are always ways to go around whatever strategy your opponent has. Against a pusher, you can't let him/her dictate the points with those no-pace, junkballs rallies. The pusher will never give you that perfect ball to strike, literally forcing you to create something out of nothing from the baseline. Come into the net, take time away from the pusher, make him react, make him play a high risk shot such as a lob/short angles/ankles shot, the ball is less likely to do funky stuff if you don't let it bounce.
I have a horrible record against pushers, definitely lost more than I have won against pushers. Until I changed my strategy, figured out a way to beat them if I could execute it. I played the pusher of all pushers a while ago. Intentional or not, he had some gamesmanship going on with his gazillion ball tosses, freezing me out on every return. The rallies consisted of junkballs galore. I was down a break and I just said to myself:
"He can't create winners, his junkballs are killing me and throwing off my timing. Screw this, I need to change it up, I'm just not going to let the ball bounce and force him to be uncomfortable. He can either pass me with a winner, or it's going to be a putaway for me at the net."
Since you're such a poor sportsman, I'm going to be mean and say the above statements, as well as everyone else's probably made no sense to you. You probably only know of one method to play tennis, which is the bash-till-you-cave method. I could be wrong, but you sound like an one-dimensional player, a sore one I may add. The notion of changing your strategy come crutch time is probably beyond your amateur skills.
And just so you know, being smart and using his head doesn't mean he's an amateur. That's real tennis.
Stop playing tennis, this sport, or any other sports don't welcome your kind.
