This would make for great banter: "unlike your mother, you were not load-bearing today"Yeah … a smooth hole-less wall would be best. A stone wall could be erratic. A non-load bearing wall is also not ideal. That might be better than telling a doubles partner they choked … “you were not load bearing today”.
I was asked if I played as a junior after having an excellent set of serving. I took that as a major compliment.
A couple of ex-college players in their thirties I beat in singles seemed surprised and a bit upset that I didn’t play any college tennis when they asked after the match. It seems like their egos can handle only losing to others who played college tennis even though they played college tennis more than fifteen years ago. I took their surprise as a nice compliment.
I didn't start tennis until I enrolled in Tennis 101 my junior year in college.
So nowadays (10+ years later) when someone asks me what high school or college I played for, I take that as a compliment.
Oh, I've had that happen to me before. I started learning "properly" at the young age of 23 back in 2013 (or thereabouts) on an on-off basis. That compliment was weird come to think of it now because I've seen videos of me playing back then, so either they were lying or they were blind. Possibly both.I've been asked where I played in college. That was a milestone.
More recently, I was hitting with a WTA pro and we both were complimented on "great hitting by both of you"
"Listen here you little s**t""You're a tough old b*stard, I hope I can still play tennis when I'm your age"![]()
"**** you! @#&!! You were just lucky!" (after a match I won)
You need to upgrade your celebration:I regularly play this guy who is the absolute nicest person you'd want to meet, but he is a high level age grouper and very competitive on court. Whenever we play a match, my entire goal is to get him to either give me the finger or to swear at me. These usually happen after a long point when I've run him around, and then hit some sort of frustrating winner like a drop shot or a short little angle behind him. Even better is a mis-hit winner, and the more frame involved the better.
After the finger or the four letter (or better, both), I usually will raise both arms and yell "Yeah!!!!". We both crack up, and continue on.
This would make for great banter: "unlike your mother, you were not load-bearing today"
You need to upgrade your celebration:
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Last April, when I was in a drill, the pro asked how long I was playing. When I told him 5 months, he said "You've got to be f***ing kidding me"
The look of his surprise was genuine.
I’ve had someone say that about me once, and then I immediately double faulted after that.The one that makes me grin every time is during my first service game in doubles is when an opposing player tells/reminds his partner with "he doesn't have a second serve."
I’ve had someone say that about me once, and then I immediately double faulted after that.
“I don’t have a first serve either”
At least he did not call you DickPlaying in a Pro-Am once and hit a good lob over Mark Knowle's for a winner--he came up to the net and said "Good lob Tom!"--this is a Pro-Am so it's understood most of the pros are playing half asleep.
Then remind him by singing,...a few years ago I had a kid as me if I was Pierce Brosnan...
Full disclosure: I'm not Pierce Brosnan
Good job!Not really a compliment but there was a player who was beating everyone with his big forehand and I worked out a game plan on a piece of paper for him. It worked beautifully and I whipped him. He stormed off the court crying, threw his racquet and proclaimed that he would never play tennis again.
Song of the day!!Then remind him by singing,
+1"You move fast for an old fat guy"
"and I got mad and yelled at her and she peed her pants. And she wore those pee pants all day. She's still wearing those pee pants.""Heather said you have a hairy butt...
"and I got mad and yelled at her and she peed her pants. And she wore those pee pants all day. She's still wearing those pee pants."
I was called a ‘tennis computer’ recently by an opponent for always having the right tactics and making the right adjustments during a match.
The one that sticks out as funny for obvious reasons, was during a rally, all of the sudden I heard a pack of girls (just a full explanation--not meant to be sexist or any such...) from the high school team saying, "Look how low they are hitting the ball over the net."
I believe we kept it up until a "winner." But I answered to say the school no longer has a tennis team. But it was more amusing because it was a time on TT when shot trajectory and such complaints were at their apex. And like it or not, stuff from this board pops into my head during real life. Similarly, one father was feeding balls to one of the players, and she was complaining that the bounce wasn't right.Did you net the next one?