Tdub
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there's a rather large contingent of unofficiated doubles players who don't understand the geometry of line calling, and are therefore unable to give due deference to the players looking down the line where the ball lands, and making line calls, and instead tend to overrule these calls, even though they are in an inferior position to make the line call judgement. They also tend to generally complain about line calling, because they think it really doesn't matter what view you have of the ball landing on the court, that they always have just as good a view as anyone else on the court. The tennis establishment says otherwise. First, the USTA Code in several instances says you should defer to players looking down the line as to line calls, and second, you don't see pro tournament line judges overruling each other, or complaining about each other's line calls. They know they have a superior view compared to other line judges not looking down the line where the ball lands. If it didn't matter where you are on the court in judging a line call, why would pro tourneys employ so many line judges? Wouldn't they just have one or two? If you have been the victim of this situation, what I call crazytennis, you can refuse to go along with the overrule because it lacks a reasonable basis, the same as if the purported overruler wasn't even looking at the ball when it landed. This problem exists because people begin playing tennis without any reference to the rules, and coaches and club proprietors don't teach them or encourage it.