So today I played in a tennis tournament. I lost my first match (I'm still pissed about that: I won the first set), and I won the consolation round (it was against a 12 year old lol). But this blog isn't about me.
It's about my friend and a skinny piece of shit.
So my friend won his first match, and moves to the next round. The kid he's playing is this skinny piece of shit (he's the one seed for some reason), and is actually horrible. My friend rapes this kid in the first set, but here's where it gets interesting.
The little fuck starts doing stupid shit. Like making noises while my friend is serving. When my friend double faults, the little fuck yells "YES!!!". He yells "COME ON!" when my friend misses a shot. During changeovers, he's an annoying little fuck.
My friend loses the second set, and proceeds to lose the third as well, thereby losing the match.
I'm really pissed about this. My friend is a nice guy, well-mannered (the guy that says gl hf and doesn't rage after losses). The kid he was playing was simply white trash. A worthless little fuck. If my team ever plays him, I'm hitting him with a ball when he goes to net. This guy is basically deezer IRL.
I'm so pissed off right now. My friend should have won, and would have, had the other guy not been an annoying little prick. For those of you who think that my friend should have won anyways if he was better, keep in mind that it's really difficult to serve when your opponent is making lots of noise while doing so. Try to stay calm when a little fucker eggs you on when you double fault. You can't do it.
The kicker is that the dude running the tournament didn't see anything bad happen. It's not his fault though, he has a million things to do at once. He knows that that little fucker is annoying as hell, and a piece of trash, but he can't find a legal way to nail him for it. So too bad there. I'm enraged because a little shit could get away with what he did.
So your friend should have won but didn't? Yeah ok. If the kid can't get punished for making noises and distracting his opponent, it seems he played intelligently and won. Yeah, it may be extremely annoying, but he won, and your friend lost, seemed to have worked rather well.
I probably would of intentionally tried to nail him with the tennis ball like you said no one would notice anyway.
But i mean i would of caused a scene if he was annoying as hell yea someone might say the better player wins through all that kind of trash talk. Fuck it i'll cause a fucking scene with a guy 60lbs lighter than me, would i do anything? No but by causing a scene and not punching just walking up to him you could get a warning which means now the other refs will watch the game out of fear for you "attacking" the other player.
Agreed skinny guy is a total tool, but you got enough rage here to suggest you deal some BM out as well. Maybe try to be more like your friend than the skinny white guy ^^ Hope this nice vent cooled you down a bit.
PanN is a troll and has nothing nice to say apparently from his post history. Don't listen to him, hes angry about something and he likes to take it out on TL.net
Aren't there officials there to watch the match? Why didn't they say or do anything? Seems to me like the guy running the tourney could have spoken to the referees for their story.
Its ok just be glad its not soccer because then you have 11 little white trash kids AND their mothers annoying you until you punch one the face and get a red. Not that I ever did something like that haha
One reason why I'm glad to have chosen racquetball over tennis. I played collegiate racquetball and faced off with some people you've described. The awesome part about racquetball and dealing with that is it makes for pegging someone with either a nice power shot or the racquet itself much easier and but also, more common. That said, your friend just needs to get a better mental game. There will always be poor sports like that everywhere but you can't let it bring your game down. Easier said than done though.
I found out that the ultimate card you can play in a verbal banter is the death card. You need to threaten to kill them.
Next time someone is saying annoying shit, provoking you or whatever (works in SC2 too) just walk up to them, look them in the eye and say firmly:
" I will crush you"
It can mean you will beat them in the game. It can mean you will hurt them phisically. It can mean you will kill them. You won't, but the thought will cross their mind and they will shut up.
I learned it from how animals work. They're not afraid to kill. You don't have to be prepared to kill, but remind the guy what the ultimate stake is.
I remember this one occasion when "I will crush you" stopped an annoying BMer who tried to drag me into the stupid insulting cycle. He started typing smiley faces and being friendly.
Skinny piece of shit got his metagame going. Maybe your friend is better at the tecnical aspect of the match but at the end of the day the skinny white shit (love the appelation btw) is better at the game as a whole.
I'm not really into tennis, but isn't there like a referee? In soccer for example this kind of thing can be punished. I don't know any type of sport where badmouthing is allowed (hockey maybe?).
On September 25 2011 05:14 proxima_ wrote: tennis, much like starcraft, does tend to bring out the bm of skinny little white kids across america
LMAO!!!
Seems like BM worked here. Personally, I would have just walked up to him and lay a beat down, or just tell him to STFU and that hes trash. Sucks for your friend though, I hope that in the next tournament, this piece of shit trash kid gets raped.
On September 25 2011 08:38 surfinbird1 wrote: I'm not really into tennis, but isn't there like a referee? In soccer for example this kind of thing can be punished. I don't know any type of sport where badmouthing is allowed (hockey maybe?).
Intentionally distracting a player while he's serving is definitely not allowed in major tournaments, and there are umpires for those matches anyway. This was probably a local tournament run by a few people, or even one, as the OP implies. There's just not enough man power to supervise 5 or 6 games all at once, so they leave it to the players to keep score.
This happens all the time when I play sc2. It's hardest to beat someone when they're very chatty and point out your build order or mistakes and call you out on everything, then BM you during/after. If both of us are silent then it's EZPZ
There's a difference between losing a mental game, and what happened here.
Nothing like this happens. Nobody is as rude as that kid. NOBODY. What he did, he went well over and beyond acceptable behavior in society.
I believe that everywhere, people should conduct themselves in an honorable (not necessarily pleasant though) manner. That kid did not do that. He played dishonorably, and should be ashamed for his actions.
An analogy to his actions would be if a SC player lost a game, and his opponent went to his booth and got in his face about it (cheering when double faulting). Inconsiderably rude and dishonorable.
@ploy
Think of it as playing deezer in real life. But you can't threaten him, punch him, etc.
On September 25 2011 04:51 PanN wrote: So your friend should have won but didn't? Yeah ok. If the kid can't get punished for making noises and distracting his opponent, it seems he played intelligently and won. Yeah, it may be extremely annoying, but he won, and your friend lost, seemed to have worked rather well.
Do you do any sports at all? STFU or troll harder.
On September 25 2011 11:35 XXGeneration wrote: Tennis is not only a physical game but a mental game. Your friend lost the mental game. It's as simple as that.
On September 25 2011 11:35 XXGeneration wrote: Tennis is not only a physical game but a mental game. Your friend lost the mental game. It's as simple as that.
No, it's a physical game too.
lol
but yeah, if your friend was actually affected by the other kid, he should've at least said something about it during the game :/
Yes, I was quick to read and not process. I think the idea that he "lost the mental" game is completely false. The mental game would be reading your opponent and bla bla bla, not tolerating and accepting poor mannerisms and sportsmanship.
Those are common grounds of a sport. Not being a sore loser and not being rude or unsportsman-like to your opponent.
On September 25 2011 08:38 surfinbird1 wrote: I'm not really into tennis, but isn't there like a referee? In soccer for example this kind of thing can be punished. I don't know any type of sport where badmouthing is allowed (hockey maybe?).
Intentionally distracting a player while he's serving is definitely not allowed in major tournaments, and there are umpires for those matches anyway.
Im surprised more people in this thread don't know this. Serena Williams went completely on-tilt again recently after getting called on something quite similar.
That said, your friend needs to be more assertive and call the kid out and bring over an umpire. Let the kid keep making noise after an official comes over and get himself DQ'd.
I think you should probably settle down, if not i'll be more than happy to send you a bit of tissue.
Your friend "should" have won eh? but did he? nope. Did some freak accident happen like him falling and breaking his knee or anything of that nature? nope.
Dont try to pull that stupid shit, its obvious as fuck already you're over exaggerating everything that happened to try to cover up for your friends loss. Decide it's a good enough story to throw on TL to try to get us to believe.
Like someone else said earlier though, noise like that and shit isnt allowed in major tournaments anyway. So the official didnt "see anything" or in all likely hood none of the above happened and you're just trying to feed us some sack of shit to make up for your friends loss.
On September 25 2011 17:24 arb wrote: I think you should probably settle down, if not i'll be more than happy to send you a bit of tissue.
Your friend "should" have won eh? but did he? nope. Did some freak accident happen like him falling and breaking his knee or anything of that nature? nope.
Dont try to pull that stupid shit, its obvious as fuck already you're over exaggerating everything that happened to try to cover up for your friends loss. Decide it's a good enough story to throw on TL to try to get us to believe.
Like someone else said earlier though, noise like that and shit isnt allowed in major tournaments anyway. So the official didnt "see anything" or in all likely hood none of the above happened and you're just trying to feed us some sack of shit to make up for your friends loss.
good one
Yeah, he made up the entire story to convince a bunch of strangers of a friend we never met nor know his level of skill so that we can sympathize and feel bad for him.
You caught him, yep.
I think you consider the readers in this blog entry too high of an importance.
And for those of you who are trying to be smart with the whole "meta-game" bullshit, LOL you guys are fucking retarded if you guys are trying to make a good analogy with that. As much as you might like to exaggerate, in the end BM in SC is limited to small text on the bottom of the screen. Tell me a fucking time where you guys jumped up in surprise or spilled your drink because one of your friends started chatting you. In sports or art, even a squeak can disrupt your routine if you're concentrating hard because it's physically distracting (aurally that is). It's not the same at all.
On September 25 2011 11:35 XXGeneration wrote: Tennis is not only a physical game but a mental game. Your friend lost the mental game. It's as simple as that.
No, it's a physical game too.
lol
but yeah, if your friend was actually affected by the other kid, he should've at least said something about it during the game :/
I would like to apologize if my sentence was constructed poorly; I'm just trying to say that in essence the mental game is at least if not more than half the game. There's probably people at all levels who try to do things to piss you off; one of the ways you get better is you ignore it and move on.
To make an analogy to SC2, there's lots of BMing done at the lower leagues. But then look at Idra.
90% of the people posting here probably don't even follow the tennis scene(rofl arb), let alone have actually played it above a level of hitting the ball back and forth.
Sucks dude, really all you can do is work with him to get this to not affect his rhythm or just hope he doesn't meet more players like this ;/
This sucks, I think your friend should have said something during the match, but you have every right to be angry.
Tbh if this was my friend (and I wasn't involved in the tournament, so not you) I would have given the kid a piece of my mind and smacked the shit out of him if he still tried to get fresh, but I'd definitely regret doing that later, props to you and your friend for being the bigger men.
This is why I only played contact sports in school. You always have the chance to make them regret it, if you actually can.
I've always been the type to be bored playing games where the slightest noise could ruin my chances, though.
Mind you, the closest I've come to playing tennis is racquetball that was, to be charitable, loosely regulated. While I was in the Army. With other Infantry grunts. That was kind of a contact sport too.
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