Most annoying players at your club

Spin Doctor said:
Personally I would find that a bit distracting if I were playing a match. Sometimes there isn't much space between the divider and the court. Seeing the divider constantly moving while trying to serve etc. would be pretty annoying.

Why was it necessary to touch the divider? Did you ever consider their POV?

On another message board there are some ladies complaining about a bunch of entitled guys constantly disrupting their divider net just for a measly workout while they were trying to play a league match.
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The coaches wanted us to run through the end, rather than slowing down before the sideline closest to divider-- hence touching divider. It wasn't like we were running under the divider onto their court, or smacking it for noise effect. They booked that particular court knowing it was where we always are, so if having a training group near them was an issue, there were other options. If I'd been playing a point and gotten pulled wide and had to push the divider with a racquet so as not to step on it, am I being entitled?
 
kingcheetah said:
The coaches wanted us to run through the end, rather than slowing down before the sideline closest to divider-- hence touching divider. It wasn't like we were running under the divider onto their court, or smacking it for noise effect. They booked that particular court knowing it was where we always are, so if having a training group near them was an issue, there were other options. If I'd been playing a point and gotten pulled wide and had to push the divider with a racquet so as not to step on it, am I being entitled?
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Still not a reason to hit the dividing net. I am with the ladies on this one. Just stop 2 feet sooner?????
 
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GlennK said:
Still not a reason to hit the dividing net. I am with the ladies on this one. Just stop 2 feet sooner?????
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There's next to no noise for touching a net with your hand, and it wasn't moving into their court. We weren't interfering with their doubles in any way. People run on tennis courts, they have to deal with that.
 
kingcheetah said:
There's next to no noise for touching a net with your hand, and it wasn't moving into their court. We weren't interfering with their doubles in any way. People run on tennis courts, they have to deal with that.
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You could have used the doubles sideline as your touch reference instead of the net.
 
Generally, if someone tells me I'm doing something which is annoying/concentration breaking/etc I would assume I did something I hadn't noticed, or which may not bother me, but does bother the other person. I would not immediately assume they were being asses.

Even if they were tennis players.
 
2) The Competitor: The guy that gets way to [sic] intense for a club singles or double league match. Does the "fist pump" , yells "come on" and argues every close call in a meaningless match
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Sounds like me.
What's a meaningless match?
A practice match with peers?

A few other things I do that are annoying i'm sure...

Score Caller - Firmly call out every game point before next point, announce game score before serving. If you don't 8/10 times there will be some dispute, I guarantee.

Aces High - Borderline aces I serve, I walk to the other side. Always done that.
If I reckon its in move to next point. If he doesn't call it out ASAP its an ace.

Sneaker Freaker - Special events or new season starts a fresh pair of brightest sneakers I can find. Dazzling the opponents.
 
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Moaning Lisa: No problem with this one...

No barrier guys: The guys wanting not wanting you to put up the dividing net, but can't keep their balls off your court. Tell you it's no big deal if their balls keep going on your court, but go ape when you close it once ten balls almost trip you.

Cheapskate: The guy who wants to play with pressureless balls and or flat balls even though you're playing on a free outdoor court. Also never brings balls and if you bring beers he'll whine that's it's warm, even if it's free.

Mr. Blind: The guy who calls the same shot in every time even though it's 2 feet out (and also doesn't realize it's your call since it's on your side).

Old Yeller: When the guy you're playing yells out something funny when he lobs you and it throws you off.

Happy feet: The guy that moves around a lot on your second serve.

Mr. Quiet or Mrs. Quiet: The guy or gal who doesn't call out the game score and then asks you what it is and then there is a dispute. Or says your score first and then their score.

Moaning dudes: Annoying
 
Spin Doctor said:
Apparently you were. Just because you were oblivious to it doesn't make it not true.
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They were too easily distracted if what we were doing was an issue. Their complaint about "distraction" when they would have LOUD conversations on changeovers (which I don't mind, it's a social environment) is a joke.

S&V-not_dead_yet said:
It makes me wonder, though, if they had acceded to the request, would the ladies then just made more demands [ie "give them an inch and they'll take a yard"]?
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This group of women is a known fountain of problems-- they constantly complain about everything to front desk people/managers. They're used to getting everything they want around the club because they have financial means and can run their mouths. Fortunately, I don't work for them, nor owe them anything, so anything tennis related that I do on a court I paid for is none of their business.
 
At one of the clubs I play at there is a water cooler every other court. So one time a couple of guys just walk onto our sidelines and casually drink water and walk around the sidelines in the middle of our points. They also spill the excess water onto the sidelines. What do you think of that? It was very annoying and distracting.
 
pc1 said:
At one of the clubs I play at there is a water cooler every other court. So one time a couple of guys just walk onto our sidelines and casually drink water and walk around the sidelines in the middle of our points. They also spill the excess water onto the sidelines. What do you think of that? It was very annoying and distracting.
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Omg, we did that during a combo match. Actually sat down during a tie-break.
 
At least they didn't do what "The Gorilla" I mentioned earlier in the thread did-- raged and BROKE a cooler, making a zero-entry pool on court :O
 
How about the woman who crosses courts as a hobby? She crossed four times during one set.
Or the guy who books an hour, and arranges another hour with his friends, leaving a half hour that is taken over by default because nobody book 30 minutes?
How about the couple whose child is at university somewhere else, so they use his membership number to book courts every day?

No prizes for guessing that these are the same people in all three instances.
 
The "I was there" doubles partner. This one is perfectly happy for me to poach umpteen winners in a row up at the net, but as soon as I shank one, regardless of how many winners before, here comes the inevitable: "I was there!" admonishment... never mind the fact that if they were "there", I couldn't have been, else we'd have collided.
 
sureshs said:
... I watch social matches (in which I am not playing) and stand at the sidelines and call foot faults.
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I commend you for your courage! More people should do what you do--maybe they could be placed in witness protection programs for their personal safety. I've heard of another person at a club that performed this duty--but he was a Superior Court judge. I would not have the courage to perform this important duty. The club should reward you with a case of Costco's finest Penns.
 
tennis tom said:
I commend you for your courage! More people should do what you do--maybe they could be placed in witness protection programs for their personal safety. I've heard of another person at a club that performed this duty--but he was a Superior Court judge. I would not have the courage to perform this important duty. The club should reward you with a case of Costco's finest Penns.
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I like to think of myself as nurturing the players through tough love.

I sometimes also override their line calls and they complain that I could not have seen the ball properly from where I was sitting.

I once called FF on a club member who is also a USTA umpire, and another time I pointed out his out call was wrong. He was very upset and started shouting that I will never become a USTA umpire because of my bad eyesight, when in fact he was wrong.
 
Does your club have players who try to play with only the best players at social or pick up events, and try to team up with the strongest guy in doubles? There is a guy here who will literally run across courts full of people if he finds a good player has shown up, and then, after the warm up coolly change sides to be with the better player. One moment he is warming up with 3 others on one side of the court, and the next minute he has sneaked to the other side before the game begins.
 
Cawlin said:
The "I was there" doubles partner. This one is perfectly happy for me to poach umpteen winners in a row up at the net, but as soon as I shank one, regardless of how many winners before, here comes the inevitable: "I was there!" admonishment... never mind the fact that if they were "there", I couldn't have been, else we'd have collided.
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I especially like this person when they are the clear weaker partner that's been putting up sitters all day. You finally try to take the game out of their hands and they give you the "Dude, I had that!". They hadn't made a shot all match and they want to call you off after one miss.
 
Badmrfrosty said:
Ouch I'm definitely this guy sometime. Bad habits die hard. More of a talking sternly now than a yell but just as annoying I'm sure.

"BMF..... what the ***** was that"
"Just F****ing terrible, BMF"
"BMF, really"
"Come On"
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Totally me ... I was playing particularly terribly last night in just a casual hit with a friend ... don't know what my problem was ... plenty of Are you kidding me OTL? Dropped a very loud F at one point. My court and the nearby court became very quiet. I did start playing a little better afterwards.
 
The guy who leaves his 15 racquet bag on the bench.

The people who take breaks in your court in between games / sets.
 
The guy who tries to strike up a conversation during a changeover: "Hey, what do you do for a living?" or stuff like that. Save the chit-chat for afterwards, please.
 
kingcheetah said:
Four nominees:
1) Excessive grunting 4.5-- Good player, but elite with the sound effects. Even on lofted neutral balls from the baseline, there are sound effects. Loudly blames the court "THIS CLAY SUCKS!!" when his footwork is suspect and he doesn't get to a ball. Also smashed a racquet in a box league doubles match XD

2)Overzealous bunt artist-- She's maybe a 3.5, has the ugliest strokes in America, and tries to alleviate the pain of this by defending all the courts with an iron fist, interrogating kids over whether or not they paid for or reserved them. My favorite moment was when, mid lesson with a teaching pro, she flagged down a manager walking by to whine about kids jumping on courts and not paying. She wasted a full 25 minutes of her lesson, despite assurance by the manager that she should continue her lesson and he would be in his office to talk afterwards.

3) "My match is important" lady-- This one was my favorite, and the only time I've ever blown up on somebody on an adjacent court. I was hitting with my dad, a 3.5, and he hit one into the doubles alley that I could run down, so I did so, and pushed the side divider curtain a bit with my racquet so I didn't step on it (My body never actually touched the curtain, so I guess I was being overly careful, but my coach tells stories of people that have been injured by the thing.) So princess on the adjacent court misses a shot, and says "Can you not do that, we're playing a match, you're distracting me" I was a little perplexed, and put my left hand and a racquet up in a shrug, asking what she wanted me to do. She replied with "I'm a league player, this is important" At this point, racquet pointing and "You aren't a tenth of the player you think you are, I'll be damned if I let a whiny old woman tell me how I should practice..."(you get the idea, it was a solid 15 second reaction) She double faulted the next point and I beckoned "that's on me too, right?" I joked with a front desk worker about the whole thing and he said that her group whined about somebody doing something to distract them every week, yet had loud conversations for 10 minutes on changeovers.

4) "The Gorilla" Weak to standard 4.0 that thinks he's a 4.5, plays a "Power game" (aka balls hit the curtain on the RISE) He also has a heck of a temper, screaming profanities next to ladies clinics, smashing racquets, One time he broke a cooler, that was entertaining. Also constantly blows up social media with things about his tennis career.
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LOL is there really that much of a distinction between 4.0 and 4.5… ? LMAO. All of em act this way
 
pc1 said:
How many of us are World Class Players? Almost none. Most of us play tennis recreationally so is it really worth always swearing and yelling when you're playing? Of course not.

It's great you're had only positive experiences playing recently. It's generally the same with me except for that guy. But I don't play him or with him anymore so it's no big deal to me.
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Right. I agree. I’m very self critical and will occasionally berate myself. I am sorry that I act this way. I am not doing it because it’s something I’m proud of or anything. I think I just hold everything in at work and in other parts of my life, so it’s sometimes nice to have an emotional release on the court.
 
motherofdragons said:
Right. I agree. I’m very self critical and will occasionally berate myself. I am sorry that I act this way. I am not doing it because it’s something I’m proud of or anything. I think I just hold everything in at work and in other parts of my life, so it’s sometimes nice to have an emotional release on the court.
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Recall dubs with a guy who had this problem. Finally struck his forehead with his racquet, blood spewed. After that members asked if he was playing in our group of 12 to 16 players. If he did they declined. He dropped out and plays billiards now. Lotta painful objects in that sport.
 
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kingcheetah said:
There's next to no noise for touching a net with your hand, and it wasn't moving into their court. We weren't interfering with their doubles in any way. People run on tennis courts, they have to deal with that.
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Nah, you folks were literally being stupid. Stop ****ing around on a tennis court. Practice your exercises ON the court instead of nearly in someone elses court.
It is just common sense to not a be a nuisance. I would have told you jackasses to stop ****ing around after the first idiot started molesting the barrier.
 
I train with this guy in grup sessions... when we are warming up he doesnt stop to slice and drop shot, im just totally cold, trying to warm up my shots, and he just tries to move me all around the court, trying to win the point, its like nobody has told him the porpouse of warming up, in matches he doesnt stop drop shoting but there i dont care, he loses 95% of the points he plays those horrible drop shots so thats his choice, even before trainnings, in mini tennis warm ups, he doesnt stop drop shotting and sending slices long, also l recently played him in a local tournament and he was like, "oh im not gonna be in competitive mode, just gonna play relaxed, not gonna try to win that hard, i will be happy if i dont get a bagel" what im i suposed to say? Why did you sign up to a tournament then? What kind of ****ty aproach is that? He doesnt have bad strokes for the time he has been playing but he just doesnt understand tennis whatsoever
 
The only players annoying enough where I would stop inviting them to social matches are the cheaters (very few as they get a reputation in a private tennis club) and those who get angry and toss racquets/hit balls hard at the fence etc. Again, these angry types are not very popular and only some players put up with them in social matches. If you play singles ladders, club tournaments or other club-organized events, you might have to play these players that you avoid otherwise socially.

I saw bad behavior more often when I played USTA leagues in the past where you are playing strangers from other clubs or public tennis centers and they don’t seem to care what you think of their line calls or angry fits - they just want to win. Over time, many people get sick of dealing with this and play social tennis only at our club as we have a large member base (22 courts) and can easily find social matches at similar levels.
 
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If I didn't play with people who occasionally yelled, hit a ball against the fence, or threw a racquet, I'd have essentially no one to play with. And that's out of thirty or so.
 
- Cheaters
- The ones that nailed me in my ear with a dead ball, after playing was stopped, but who in turn complain to the management that I hit them in the legs with a passing shot? Saying that I am dangerous with a racquet in my hand lol
- The one who admitted that he doesn't like people, but complained to the management (and almost got me excluded) for paying him a compliment saying that he looked like a famous movies director, Tyler Perry (he is black)?
 
Fintft said:
- Cheaters
- The ones that nailed me in my ear with a dead ball, after playing was stopped, but who in turn complain to the management that I hit them in the legs with a passing shot? Saying that I am dangerous with a racquet in my hand lol
- The one who admitted that he doesn't like people, but complained to the management (and almost got me excluded) for paying him a compliment saying that he looked like a famous movies director, Tyler Perry (he is black)?
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Was the one who admitted he doesn't like people wearing a dress?
 
Simon_the_furry said:
I don't understand why people apologize for that. "Oh, I'm sorry that I was lucky."
Sure, it's disappointing to have an opponent's netcord shot drop on your side. But why should the opponent apologize for it? He won the point fair and square, so why should I need an apology?
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Because the pros do it.:sneaky:
 
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