This has happened to me about a week ago and I've noticed the same thing happen to other players.
About 3-4 times a week, my friend and I will play on the tennis courts at a local HS. We usually rally for a bit and then get into playing some games.
Now if I'm not mistaken, I believe a form of tennis etiquette is when you arrive at some courts and all of them are taken, you wait OUTSIDE the fenced courts until a court is available.
So one day, my friend and I are playing a match and this woman with her children just open the gate and walk right onto our court and "demands" (and by demand, I mean she said, "You're going to be done soon, right?") when we'll be done. He and I stop play and tell her to please wait outside and that we've only been her for about 40 minutes and won't be done for at least another hour. She scoffs and then leaves our court without shutting the gate. I then observe her walking into the next court, where people are playing, and "demand" when they'll be done. And does the same for the rest of the courts.
I could tell everyone was annoyed by her and the sad thing is that she does this every single time she comes to the courts. I almost want to just to yell and exclaim at her that she is not being very respectful of us and the other players using the courts and whatnot, but I know that in itself is not the good thing to do, plus I don't want to do that in front of her kids.
I figured the next time she does that, I'll pull her aside and inform her that what she's doing is not respectful and that we would appreciate it if she just waited outside the courts, you know, ON THE BENCHES where other people are supposed to wait, and if we're done, we'll flag her over.
Anyone else experience similar situations like this?
About 3-4 times a week, my friend and I will play on the tennis courts at a local HS. We usually rally for a bit and then get into playing some games.
Now if I'm not mistaken, I believe a form of tennis etiquette is when you arrive at some courts and all of them are taken, you wait OUTSIDE the fenced courts until a court is available.
So one day, my friend and I are playing a match and this woman with her children just open the gate and walk right onto our court and "demands" (and by demand, I mean she said, "You're going to be done soon, right?") when we'll be done. He and I stop play and tell her to please wait outside and that we've only been her for about 40 minutes and won't be done for at least another hour. She scoffs and then leaves our court without shutting the gate. I then observe her walking into the next court, where people are playing, and "demand" when they'll be done. And does the same for the rest of the courts.
I could tell everyone was annoyed by her and the sad thing is that she does this every single time she comes to the courts. I almost want to just to yell and exclaim at her that she is not being very respectful of us and the other players using the courts and whatnot, but I know that in itself is not the good thing to do, plus I don't want to do that in front of her kids.
I figured the next time she does that, I'll pull her aside and inform her that what she's doing is not respectful and that we would appreciate it if she just waited outside the courts, you know, ON THE BENCHES where other people are supposed to wait, and if we're done, we'll flag her over.
Anyone else experience similar situations like this?
that they have another hour which is a no no in my area,,,,,,,,,if she rushed in as they were playing a point then maybe but I doubt it since OP did not say so, most likely it was between points. Had i been there with my kids and op told me to wait outside and "DEMANDED" to play for another hour, I would have shown my kids a thing or two how to deal with skateboard kids :twisted:
