dkshifty
Rookie
Played a playoff match this weekend. First round of our Combo. I'll preface this by saying our opponents played a near perfect game and hats off to them.
I believe this occurred somewhere in the second set. We lost a nail-biter of a first set 4-6 with a crap load of ads and break points that we couldn't convert. I'm pretty sure we were 0/15 in break points.
The second set, more of the same. Plenty of break points but we could not convert a single one. These guys were human backboards and had an answer for every ball. BUT, we started crashing the net and forcing a couple errors.
>>I believe it was 3-3, with our opponent Ad-Out in the second set. Opponent send a second serve to my partner. I call out, my partner calls out. Then my partner mutters softly, after we make our calls...."eh...might have been in." Everybody stops. I say "your point." The opponent is in disbelief. We end up losing that game for them to hold serve. They eventually win the second set 6-3 and the match.
Both opponents come up to me and said they were surprised that I overruled my partner (and myself I guess). I simply said if we have any inkling of a disagreement on the call, we should forfeit the point and that I've seen too many arguments on stuff like this. They shared that in playoffs especially, no one in their right mind would do that, and praised us being stand up guys.
I apologized to my partner for overruling during that crucial point (we were pressing them pretty hard at the net, and that break point was probably the biggest moment of the set and the entire match). I just explained to him that its just one call. The opponents played beyond their level and deserved to win versus us possibly winning, but would have been based on something funky and I didn't want to win like that.
We lose the deciding 3rd line and are knocked out of the playoffs. Not our time I suppose!
Anyone else had this happen during a crucial moment in a competitive match? Would love to hear your stories.
I believe this occurred somewhere in the second set. We lost a nail-biter of a first set 4-6 with a crap load of ads and break points that we couldn't convert. I'm pretty sure we were 0/15 in break points.
The second set, more of the same. Plenty of break points but we could not convert a single one. These guys were human backboards and had an answer for every ball. BUT, we started crashing the net and forcing a couple errors.
>>I believe it was 3-3, with our opponent Ad-Out in the second set. Opponent send a second serve to my partner. I call out, my partner calls out. Then my partner mutters softly, after we make our calls...."eh...might have been in." Everybody stops. I say "your point." The opponent is in disbelief. We end up losing that game for them to hold serve. They eventually win the second set 6-3 and the match.
Both opponents come up to me and said they were surprised that I overruled my partner (and myself I guess). I simply said if we have any inkling of a disagreement on the call, we should forfeit the point and that I've seen too many arguments on stuff like this. They shared that in playoffs especially, no one in their right mind would do that, and praised us being stand up guys.
I apologized to my partner for overruling during that crucial point (we were pressing them pretty hard at the net, and that break point was probably the biggest moment of the set and the entire match). I just explained to him that its just one call. The opponents played beyond their level and deserved to win versus us possibly winning, but would have been based on something funky and I didn't want to win like that.
We lose the deciding 3rd line and are knocked out of the playoffs. Not our time I suppose!
Anyone else had this happen during a crucial moment in a competitive match? Would love to hear your stories.