Thought I would share my adventure of the day...
SCENARIO: A foursome of us men were playing doubles on a public court at a city tennis center here in Dallas this morning. We were on a court that was one of 6 in a row with no fences separating the courts.
We began play at 9:00 a.m. and had the court until 10:30 a.m. As we began play we noticed that four women went down one court from us. They were giggling and twittering and obviously looking forward to their upcoming league match that was to begin at 10:30 a.m. Of course I'm not sure what they were going to do with a 1.5 hour warmup...
About 9:45 a.m. the ladies group had grown to about 14 excited women tennis players. They had four players warming up on one court and 4 on another--so that left EIGHT WOMEN to warm up on the court next to us--and lo and behold, they actually did it!
To say it was a FIASCO would be an understatement. They were hitting on the sideline next to our court and we rarely played more than 2 shots without one of their balls coming onto our court...
As we approached 10:30 a.m. (when they would get our court) they begin to loudly ask each other, "How much more time do these men still have left on our court?" This went on for about 15 minutes before the bewitching hour struck at 10:30 a.m. We were in the middle of a point when the hour came and 6 indignant women descended onto our court saying, "Your time is up so you need to get off our court."
The greatest miracle of the day was that none of us said a word. We just grabbed our balls and left...
Welcome to the world of public courts tennis!
4 comments:
can't teach class or manners unfortunately. You guys were good to not go off on the TCD/USTA brats
If you let them get away with that, I doubt any of you 4 guys had any balls to grab.
Were the ladies offended when you grabbed your balls? Did they notify the police?
Reminds me of the time that an evaluator told me that I need to "squeeze my balls" between sets. Not sure she totally meant or understood what she was saying but it made for good blog material.
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