Sock Major Choke

[RSJfan]

Sock up 9-2 first game and loses 11-9.
Sock up 10-0 second game and loses 12-10.

 

[Better_Call_Raul]

We must keep in mind that a hapless pickle player can only hold a game point while serving; he can never hold a game point while receiving serve.
You see, pickel uses side-out scoring while tennis uses rally scoring. We are simply stating the facts of the scoring differences between the two sports.
Please do not kill the messenger.


Therefore, the situation is not entirely analogous to tennis, where such a collapse has almost never occurred.

Nevertheless, this collapse by your favourite Sock is utterly shocking.

If a player is ahead 6-0 in a tennis tiebreaker, he has greater than a 99% chance of winning, as he would be holding six game points.
It is practically unheard of to lose from such a dominant position in tennis, and indeed it has occurred but only a handful of times in tennis history.
At the 1994 US Open, Richard Krajicek led Jan Siemerink 6-0 in a fourth-set tiebreak, only to lose the tiebreak 10-8.

All this raises the question of how often this type of Sock collapse occurs in pickel?

 

[RSJfan]

We must keep in mind that a hapless pickle player can only hold a game point while serving; he can never hold a game point while receiving serve.
You see, pickel uses side-out scoring while tennis uses rally scoring. We are simply stating the facts of the scoring differences between the two sports.
Please do not kill the messenger.


Therefore, the situation is not entirely analogous to tennis, where such a collapse has almost never occurred.

Nevertheless, this collapse by your favourite Sock is utterly shocking.

If a player is ahead 6-0 in a tennis tiebreaker, he has greater than a 99% chance of winning, as he would be holding six game points.
It is practically unheard of to lose from such a dominant position in tennis, and indeed it has occurred but only a handful of times in tennis history.
At the 1994 US Open, Richard Krajicek led Jan Siemerink 6-0 in a fourth-set tiebreak, only to lose the tiebreak 10-8.

All this raises the question of how often this type of Sock collapse occurs in pickel?

Thanks! I didn’t know what was going on with PB scoring until your exceptional and clear explanation.

Sock isn’t my fav. You’re my fav. Sock’s fav is Chipotle. Your favs are Vlad, Xi, Elon, Egg, Carrot and the Ayatollah currently hiding underground just like the last days of your old fav Saddam.

 

[Better_Call_Raul]

Thanks! I didn’t know what was going on with PB scoring until your exceptional and clear explanation.

You're welcome. Many gentle TW readers are not aware of the scoring system and the difference between the tennis rally scoring system and pickelball's side-out scoring.
Indeed, we often encounter players who play both pickleball and tennis and who, while playing pickleball, mistakenly award themselves a point while on the receiving end; we kindly correct them.
Now that the pioneering U.S. Open Mixed will be implementing four-game sets they may also wish to consider side-out scoring to create even more excitement.

That means if you lose a point on serve, the other team immediately serves. Just imagine the drama.

 

[Better_Call_Raul]

Wow. Sock has a huge serve. What a weapon.
Making this loss from 10-0 all the more shocking.

 

[RSJfan]

You're welcome. Many gentle TW readers are not aware of the scoring system and the difference between the tennis rally scoring system and pickelball's side-out scoring.
Indeed, we often encounter players who play both pickleball and tennis and who, while playing pickleball, mistakenly award themselves a point while on the receiving end; we kindly correct them.
Now that the pioneering U.S. Open Mixed will be implementing four-game sets they may also wish to consider side-out scoring to create even more excitement.

That means if you lose a point on serve, the other team immediately serves. Just imagine the drama.

Tennis was designed as a game for gentlemen which explains why so many TTW posters such as yourself are so gentle and polite. PB is an entirely different animal and has taken off as a so-called sport for unathletic, out of shape, aggressive Americans. Even the #1 PB pro player is a porky relatively unathletic chap prone to ungentlemanly behavior.

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Sock while completely out of shape for a tennis pro is in perfectly fine shape by the standards of pro PB and he has one of the best serves in PB. His loss from 9-2 and 10-0 is shocking and inexplicable.

I don’t have interest in the hit and giggles USO mixed Exo or the format. It’s a downside for me as it will make Fan Week more crowded as the casual fans such as yourself come out to watch this nonsense including your former fav Emma and Charles and then stick around to go shopping and eat. Perhaps you have some pro shopping tips you could share with these casual fans.

 

[Better_Call_Raul]

PB is an entirely different animal and has taken off as a so-called sport for unathletic, out of shape, aggressive Americans.

Poor Sock had to retrieve his own balls.
Pickelball tournaments need to properly employ ballkids.

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[tennishabit]

Poor Sock had to retrieve his own balls.
Pickelball tournaments need to properly employ ballkids.

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watwat......choking on pickles:?)) not worth it.......might b ok to hv a bony choke on meat/fish......

 

[I Dink Too Much]

Tennis was designed as a game for gentlemen

This gave me a grin.

PB is an entirely different animal and has taken off as a so-called sport for unathletic, out of shape, aggressive Americans.

You seem to have quite a chip on your shoulder. It must bug you that pickleball is now not merely the fastest growing sport in America ... but also in the world, huh?

Even the #1 PB pro player is a porky relatively unathletic chap prone to ungentlemanly behavior.

Ben Johns will be the first to state he's not an athlete; he simply has very good eye-hand coordination. And he's hardly "porky".

(Link to Ben Johns so-called withdrawal controversy.)

Lighting quality is a big deal to pickleball competitors. For Ben, especially so, as he suffered an eye injury at 9 years of age which left him with some nerve damage. The result is he struggles in poor indoor lighting conditions.

Sock while completely out of shape for a tennis pro is in perfectly fine shape by the standards of pro PB

This, too, gave me a grin.

(Sock) has one of the best serves in PB.

This is true. And Connor Garnett is a Top Five singles player who has no "quit" in him.

His loss from 9-2 and 10-0 is shocking and inexplicable.

Not against Connor, it isn't.

- Dink

 

[RSJfan]

You seem to have quite a chip on your shoulder. It must bug you that pickleball is now not merely the fastest growing sport in America ... but also in the world, huh?

I calls ‘em like I sees ‘em. And I think it may be you that has the chip, Dink. I enjoy playing PB. I couldn’t care less what it’s relative growth rate in participation is verse tennis (so long as I have enough variety of people to play with). Sometimes I even watch parts of pro PB matches to see if I can learn anything for my own game but in general I find it fairly unwatchable as a sport.

Not against Connor, it isn't.

Not as crazy as Sock match but this guy Goldin had him at 11-5, 10-7 serving and lost 11-5 10-12, 3-11.

 

[atatu]

They had professional pillow fighting on ESPN over the weekend, I was going to say something like this is the Pickleball of combat sports, but when I watched for a few minutes I realized that the pillow fighters were actually very athletic and skilled, much more so than pickleball pros.

 

[RSJfan]

They had professional pillow fighting on ESPN over the weekend, I was going to say something like this is the Pickleball of combat sports, but when I watched for a few minutes I realized that the pillow fighters were actually very athletic and skilled, much more so than pickleball pros.