ChaelAZ
G.O.A.T.
So we are playing D2 in the 18+ 4.0 league this match against guys that look familiar, but I am not sure. Quick check of them and they are 0/3 team wise, but solid rated players and I don't recognize names. Whatever, right? We are ready to play and while my partner and I are notorious for slow starts, we swear to be more active from the get go! First bumps abound and "let's do this!".
Soooo, down 0/3 cautious in the first set, we finally gut check and work our way back to even. Serves are our strong point and things are on there. Net play is sketchy AF, but working well enough. We end up ready to break and then serve out the set, but duff the 40/0 lead in the game in a series of focus errors, then lose the next service return game handily. First set we are on the wrong side at 4/6, but feeling ready now.
Second set we click like we knew we would. We jump up 3/0 and on the switch they are serving. About a few serves in, our new singles guy right next to us starts arguing about scores with his opponent. No biggy, but it continues...and continues to get louder...and more aggressive. To the point all other match play is being overshadowed by this scene.
So a bit of background about my partner is, he is a very devote Mormon, tolerant, and one of the nicest guys I have ever met. The guys would not say "poo" if he had a mouthful, but all of a sudden, he can't take it anymore and just starts yelling at OUR player to shut-up, figure it out, and just get on with play to stop disrupting everyone. We start trying to play, but I cant tell my partner is, for all intents and purposes, done. Annoyed. And not on court with me at the moment. Honestly, I am a bit annoyed too. We have ALWAYS been about sportsmanship and this was embarrassing to say the least.
To wrap up things and get to the crux of it, we did not win another game and lost the second 3/6. And all props to our opponents for clinching it in stellar, ace laden fashion even. The one player remembered me from part teams and they were both great guys, but we felt it was just one of those black mark moments for the team overall, but also for us to fall to distraction like that. I took my partner back a few times, said let take depth breaths and see if we can focus, but I kinda could see he was still annoyed. And again, so was I. We just hate seeing that crap representation of our team after all these years.
So the thoughts and question I suppose is, have you ever had these kinds of situations with yourself or partner? Where you able to get focus back, or how did do it if so?
Oh, and my partner just text an apparently at the first practice this new guys was at the other day he was yelling at his partner and others for all kinds of stuff. WTH?
Soooo, down 0/3 cautious in the first set, we finally gut check and work our way back to even. Serves are our strong point and things are on there. Net play is sketchy AF, but working well enough. We end up ready to break and then serve out the set, but duff the 40/0 lead in the game in a series of focus errors, then lose the next service return game handily. First set we are on the wrong side at 4/6, but feeling ready now.
Second set we click like we knew we would. We jump up 3/0 and on the switch they are serving. About a few serves in, our new singles guy right next to us starts arguing about scores with his opponent. No biggy, but it continues...and continues to get louder...and more aggressive. To the point all other match play is being overshadowed by this scene.
So a bit of background about my partner is, he is a very devote Mormon, tolerant, and one of the nicest guys I have ever met. The guys would not say "poo" if he had a mouthful, but all of a sudden, he can't take it anymore and just starts yelling at OUR player to shut-up, figure it out, and just get on with play to stop disrupting everyone. We start trying to play, but I cant tell my partner is, for all intents and purposes, done. Annoyed. And not on court with me at the moment. Honestly, I am a bit annoyed too. We have ALWAYS been about sportsmanship and this was embarrassing to say the least.
To wrap up things and get to the crux of it, we did not win another game and lost the second 3/6. And all props to our opponents for clinching it in stellar, ace laden fashion even. The one player remembered me from part teams and they were both great guys, but we felt it was just one of those black mark moments for the team overall, but also for us to fall to distraction like that. I took my partner back a few times, said let take depth breaths and see if we can focus, but I kinda could see he was still annoyed. And again, so was I. We just hate seeing that crap representation of our team after all these years.
So the thoughts and question I suppose is, have you ever had these kinds of situations with yourself or partner? Where you able to get focus back, or how did do it if so?
Oh, and my partner just text an apparently at the first practice this new guys was at the other day he was yelling at his partner and others for all kinds of stuff. WTH?