DeShaun
Banned
You played those points competitively, in my opinion, but not in the most sportsmanlike manner. I have been on the receiving and the giving end of such shots. On the very rare occasion that I was dealing out the pain, I did so in order to send a message. My opponent had been storming the net in a very showy manner, not tiptoeing or sneaking in but very much stomping and dragging his feet on his way in, as if trying to rattle me into attempting a low percentage pass. Of course the pass was my initial reaction and I made a few pass attempts with varying degrees of success. But once I became convinced that his intent was only to draw an unforced error, then I went at his body once or twice though not violently or aggressively but only hard enough to make him think twice about his tactic of loudly disrupting me...he may as well have been shouting, jumping up and down and waving his arms in an exaggerated way while I was hitting my rally balls, because that's how disruptive his foot stomping and shuffling had become. To underscore my point, I did not feel very sporting afterward, but tennis is sometimes like a game of chess, and I would never make all kinds of noise obviously meant to distract my opponent while it was his turn to move and he was contemplating his options.
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