Crazyface
Tour Winner
I've joined my local place. 8 all weather courts. I'm playing thee times a week. Mostly doubles though. My serves coming along nicely.
The Tennis Thread
- Thread starter Arthur Wedge
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Neilds
Assistant Pro
Do they have the equivalent of this forum in the tennis world where you can get forehand tips and discuss if the latest racquets do actually add 10 mph to your serve?
Mandofred
Well-known member
I jumped in with a group and tried playing almost 2 years ago now....I used to be decent and played in a couple of local tourney's when young. Nope.....body wouldn't cooperate. My back may have survived, but it turns out my shoulder now couldn't put up with kick serves...and likely just swinging hard over head at all.
SocketRocket
Ryder Cup Winner
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
Isn’t it great when our daughters willingly choose to do something with us…helps when it’s something like Wimbles of course…but nevertheless.
KenL
Tour Rookie
Pleased that the horrible screaming player is out.
Mandofred
Well-known member
Sabalenka is now mad at Anisimova because she didn't say "sorry" when scoring on a net cord winner. ??? Why would you say sorry? Those hits happen fairly regularly.....etiquette gone nuts.
I'm not watching Wimbledon, isn't for me, but I saw that interview this morning on the sports news. It was plain embarrassing. I'm hoping it was a heat of the moment thing and she regrets saying it now.
srixon 1
Journeyman Pro
Novax getting stuffed and is down two sets in the semifinal. So he pulls out his usual trick of a medical timeout to try and upset the momentum of Sinner. 
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end.Neilds
Assistant Pro
Not sure which of the drug cheats I want to lose more in this matchNovax getting stuffed and is down two sets in the semifinal. So he pulls out his usual trick of a medical timeout to try and upset the momentum of Sinner.
4LEX
Well-known member
Wimbledon is definitely one of the best sporting days out. So much to see, eat and drink! If you get a sunny day during the first few days the courts don't seem real grass, they look too perfect. The quality of the horticulture is off the scale.
srixon 1
Journeyman Pro
Hopefully, Alcatraz, (as my wife calls him) will beat Sinner in the final.
Orikoru
Tour Winner
That is a weird one. I grew up playing tennis and yes, you are taught to apologise for those net cord ones. It seems daft since you've not done it on purpose, and it benefits you, so you're obviously not sorry about it really. Personally I think it would be enough to simply not celebrate that point, since you won it by pure luck. (In this instance Anisimova failed on that count as well though, as it won her the game and she gave it a bit of a fist pump I believe.)
Anyway, Djokovic is out. Great news!
4LEX
Well-known member
To be fair I watched that point and I did think it was poor value not to hold her hand up because it was a fluke that she benefitted from. In golf it would be like someone hitting a sprinkler head and the ball bouncing in on the 18th in a crunch match, then celebrating like mad. Nothing wrong with it but poor form all the same..
KenL
Tour Rookie
Yes, she should have held her hand up as I do in table tennis or when fluking a snooker shot.
But, she was probably sick of Sabalenka’s attitude by that point.
But, she was probably sick of Sabalenka’s attitude by that point.
Mandofred
Well-known member
Nothing wrong with it...exactly. If I'm putting and hit a putt I didn't think I would make....do I need to apologize to my playing partners? Madness.
4LEX
Well-known member
I never mentioned a putt though. That's simply a normal thing and no luck is involved.
In a big knock out, going down the 18th all square with friends around the green. Let's say you had some unbelievable luck, are you honestly saying you wouldn't act sheepish and acknowledge that fact? Or would you start hollering and giving it the big one?
Mandofred
Well-known member
You have played golf....right? Luck goes both ways.... If I get lucky in a good way you are bloody well right I'd be happy about it. Do I apologize because of good fortune? not a chance. I would apologize if I did something wrong....getting lucky isn't something wrong, and hitting the top of the net isn't lucky....it just means you hit it an inch too low. I've played plenty of tennis when younger...hitting the net and the ball going over occurs a lot.
Not sure what a Big One is.....not sure I want to.....
4LEX
Well-known member
Yes mate I play off +1.
I also played tennis to a decent level as a junior. It's not really about levels of sport it's just about having the awareness to acknowledge a large stroke of luck. It's as simple as that.
Arthur Wedge
Well-known member
Not sure there is a relevant comparison within golf
It’s excepted etiquette within tennis that a net cord point won the player does acknowledge a simple sorry by raising hand or racquet
It is fortune to hit the top of the net and the ball to creep over - it’s a lucky shot that’s not planned
