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My take is that he felt bad about being crushed and tried to save face. For some reason you decided that not only should you beat him at tennis but that you had to expose his effort to save face and argue with him. I think next time this happens you should take the high road which is the...

The USTA states that if a 3.50 player (top of the 3.5 level) plays a 3.01 player (bottom of the 3.5 level) the expected result is 6-0, 6-0. Two 3.50 players playing two average 3.5's should yield a similar result to the one you just had. From my personal experience in doubles play, I...

The thing that always annoys me is how when the season ends maybe 20% of the guys even bother to say thanks to me for captaining. It would be nice if more people realized that it's a good deal of work to schedule and confirm matches every week. There's always a bunch of flakes out there...

The only reason to seek out age group competition is either for social reasons or if you dominate older opponents. If you're only into your second year of playing this is unlikely. Tennis clubs tend to have a preponderance of players in that age group because tennis is an expensive sport if...

I've learned that if someone doesn't immediately say yes to league tennis they are very unlikely to play. If someone gives a maybe they are not usually worth the time unless you know they are worried about how good the competition is. The player who has to be asked repeatedly to join is...

I would suggest an email to the team addressing the problem. Let them know that you are getting a lot of complaints about partners and remind everyone that they are playing with the same people who comprised a winning team last year. Be supportive but let them know that we've all moved up a...

I would have left after he hit your long serve over the fence. Three balls in a row hit out of the court is excessive and I would just let the league coordinator know what happened and claim the match as a default win. You already had a huge lead so how could your opponent argue? Under...

Unfortunately, my district (Missouri Valley) and section (Heart of America) do not have this information on their website. The only link I could find was from a USTA district or sectional in Arizona. So I went ahead and entered the score as 6-7, 7-6, 1-0. The thing is earlier this year a...

Thanks, Cindy.

We "lost" a match today. We were up 7-6, 6-5 and I was to serve for the win but the timed match rule kicked in and we played two tiebreaks with us losing both. Now people have entered the score of a 7-6, 5-4 match that went to the second set tiebreaker as 7-6, 7-6 and they have also...

"First of all, he doesn't believe that playing with normal partners is necessary. I have played 8 matches the league, and have played with 6 different partners. That seems a little excessive to me. I have told him that I do not like that, and he doesn't really care. This leads to the second...

Here's a breakdown of John's "terrible partners" from this season records w/out John records w/John 5-3 1-0 4-1 0-1 3-3 0-1 5-4...

This is interesting because I happen to be John's captain. John, you are free to join another team if you wish. I'm sorry that I ruined your reputation by saddling you with weak partners. Why don't you post your complete name so that others can examine how your performance compares to...

My philosophy as a captain is that everyone gets to play an equal amount of matches. Of course due to rounding some people will get less matches than others and I will assign 1 less match to the weakest players. I think it's lame when someone is asked to join a team and only gets to play when...

To me cheating is never acceptable and calling someone else's ball out when it is not is completely unethical. Deliberately cheating people in revenge is going to lead to you (rightly) getting accused of cheating. Argue the other guy's calls but never assume that they are directly cheating...