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I'm sure it happens at times, but in my local league I've never seen someone get disqualified by the system without it being deserving.

You're ignoring the fact the juniors aren't sandbagging in their tournaments. While their tournaments may be age and gender segregated there is enough variety in skill levels during the early rounds to accurately rate the juniors.

But players generally know when they've improved enough to move to the next level. They always have the opportunity to play up a level and play at the level of their actual ability to avoid a bump. It's doubtful anyone is legitimately going from 3.0 to 4.0 in one year based on natural progression.

You understand why people playing in largely gender, age and rating segregated matches would skew data, right?

This is just a limited data problem. If there wore more UTR matches this would correct itself.

How was that ball out in the second game?

The problem with the NTRP is how rarely it updates. So you'll have someone playing November 2020 whose rating is based off matches prior to April of 2019. So that's a 18 month lag. The UTR updates after every match so it's harder to sandbag in the long term. Yes you can sandbag in the short...

Thank you. I sent them an e-mail!

I am currently over at Fort Benning until March and looking to play some tennis while I am here. Low 4.0/high 3.5 type player.

I think this is the biggest change I had to make when playing pushers. When I knew they couldn't hit winners on me I would get too conservative. That would then give them openings for them to put me in bad positions to where they had the advantage. Now I hit aggressive shots to bigger targets...

I sometimes wonder how it's fun to play like this. I won't lie, when I play better opponents I definitely turn into a counter puncher and start hitting balls more middle of the court and try to rally for as long as I can. It certainly could be called a pushing because i'm not trying to hit big...

This is exactly why it's a busch league move. The only real chance of winning the point is getting your opponent to mess up.

Bit of irony here, but this attitude explains why you don't understand that rushing the net is impolite and against social norms. I would probably try to hit you on purpose as a punishment for your unsportsmanlike behavior. However, I'm more hot headed than most. Most people would prefer to...

You're not making a legitimate play on the ball. You're just hoping your opponent will make a mistake by not trying to hurt you because you put yourself in a dangerous situation.

The Code has a preface that explicitly covers this topic The rules of tennis expect you to play if a fair and courteous manner. If you choose to use bad faith in your application of the rules to justify your actions there is nothing the rules can do to stop you.

This is going to be true at every level, especially singles. The guys in better shape are just naturally going to do better over the course of a singles match.

The thread started off as an unconventional strategy. This would be a very unconventional tactic. The thread turned into a very conventional tactic which questions why it was even a thread in the first place.

I do admire you for admitting to it.

These are clearly two different things though, right? Charging the net doesn't mean taking one step forward, does it? You guys have turned "charging into the net" to mean taking a step or two into no man's land. Those are clearly two different things to anyone having an honest discussion. This...

But at the end of the day you can make this argument about people at every level and at some point you have to bump people up, right? I get that it's no fun to lose, but after winning so much the past few years don't you think it's fair some of you guys lose a little?

They're probably expecting this to help grow the 5.0 leagues by forcing the older 5.0s to play 18&over.

The reality is sometimes you're the top end of a level and sometimes you're on the bottom end of a level. It's hard to argue guys that won a national championship shouldn't spend a few years at the higher level. You can't just let the same people win every year, right?

I doubt i'm the only person not understanding the situation. Because you started off arguing you would charge the net. Now you and your supporters are arguing you're hanging out in no man's land. That's two very different things so it's hard to rationally put that argument together. Then a...

The fact that you're having to resort to ad hominem attacks and changing the standard definition of words says a lot about your argument.

That's not how context works. At least has a definition. It literally means "not less than; at the minimum." So you were literally saying, at a minimum you want to get to where the ball bounces and preferably closer to the net. At this point I can't make you admit it, the same way I can't...

Someone that intentionally makes bad line calls would never admit to the real reason they made the bad call. Similar to the OP not admitting to the real reason he's charging the net on a short overhead. That's the part of the analogy you're missing.

Words have meanings. He said he is trying to "at least" get to where the ball bounces. That means his goal is to get further to the net but he wants to at least get to the ball bounce. (The Bryan brother did neither of these things) The fact you guys keep ignoring what the OP said says a lot...

This is one where the rules leave it blurry so there is no right or wrong. However, we've moved on to discussing whether or not it's good sportsmanship.

I'm honestly wondering if they're reading the OP I agree he's moving forward while moving laterally, but are you legitimately arguing that he's charging the net?

Another example of a player moving laterally. Hardly charging the net. The fact you guys keep posting videos that aren't showing what is actually described in the OP should be a sign you're wrong...