Worst way to lose a match??

tennisguyak

tennisguyak

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1. Double Faulting
2. Easy groundstroke/volley shanked
3. Overhead into the net
4. Overhead into the fence (without bouncing first)
5. Hitting the netcord, ball bounces to your side.
6. Opponent hitting netcord, ball bounces to your side
7. Breaking all your racket strings.
8. Showing up and finding out you took your rackets out of the bag, and left them at home.
9. Showing up 45 minutes late only to learn you're down a set and 3 games (1 game/every five minutes your late in USTA tournaments)
10. Defaulted for breaking all of your rackets. (and/or your opponent's rackets)
11. Opponent hitting an amazing winner and yelling "COME ON!!" so its heard within a five mile radius.

I kinda messed up the whole poll making process, but go ahead and just post your choices b/c I'm interested to see what you say.
 
worst way I ever lost a match was a doubles match by default. Showed up half an hour late due to my own fault....arrived at the wrong venue, then had to drive a good 30 min to the correct one only to find that the other team declared forfeit on us. My doubles partner was pissed as hell.
 
Back in middle school my eighth grade year we were playing our "cross town rivals" in the region tournament. We were down by one point, and our match along with #2 doubles next to us was to decide which team advanced. I was playing #1 doubles and we were in a super tiebreak. It was late in the day, and our opponents served 3 times instead of twice which we didn't notice until after the point too. So we talked to them and they said it was my teams fault for not noticing, and my piece of crap coach did nothing to help us out. The tournament organizer just stumbled onto the court and "directed" whose serve it was and gave our opponents serve again even when we had one more service turn. They won this point and the next giving them the match. I was so pissed off I took all 3 of the match balls and blasted them into the parking lot, the football field, and over the school buildings.
 
i lost a set due to a "foot fault" once. looking back i should have just been warned and not had a point penalty taken. I went on to lose the match haha
 
Worst way is definitely something thats embarrassing, as it stays in your mind, or an IMPORTANT match, with something rediculous that shouldve been your point.
 
I feel bad for that guy! Bust your butt just to lose on a foot fault! That lines person needs to get over herself/himself. Flipping the bench is ... overboard. I wonder if later the linesman wished they didnt make the call. I wish we had some more camera angles. I would love to see the look he gives the linesman and the smashing of the racket from different angles. Such a shame to waste a flip out of that magnitude.
 
when you are up 6-0 5-0 40-0 in the finals and your mom makes you forfeit beacuse she has a nail appointment. Never happened to me but i just thought of it
 
What about being nailed in the nuts?

Nothing dramatic like that happened to me, but in a recent dubs match my partner and I were down, and then he hurt his leg real bad after trying to reach a lob.
 
My dad and I were playing in a doubles tournament. We were in the final, match point and he tore a groin and was out for 4 months. We still won the point though.
 
Probably #7 for me, think about it you might be totally spanking your opponent and then your string snaps and you have to default. That would suck .
 
DF I think it the worst, some of the options you have are funny and I've done a few, but my partner and I hate DF the most, why? Well when you DF your partner can't do anything to make you serve better and you feel bad for letting him/her down. I always love to misshit winner too, when if he had hit the ball cleanly you would have gotten it as opposed to hitting the frame and completely surprising you.
 
there's no way worse to lose a match than playing badly throughout it. a bad error on match point, though, is icing on the cake.
 
For me, not just one thing.

If I blew match points, that would peeve me.

Having the other guy hit winners the whole match or have me being error prone ensures me mentally that I didn't have a shot the whole time. But if I knew I had an opportunity to win, I would call that a disappointment.
 
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