Robbed by a Tournament Director
I remember it like it was yesterday.
I was 11. I was in a tournament and I hit a winner around the net post. The opponent complained and said it wasn't fair. I said "fine, let's take this argument to the tournament director." The director said that we should replay the point. I told him that I knew the rules and this ruling is incorrect. I asked him to look it up in the rule book. HE DIDN'T EVEN HAVE THE RULE BOOK THERE!
Needless to say, I lost the next point and never mentally recovered. I was 11 after all. I'm getting pissed off just thinking about it!
Do you have any rants against tennis officials?
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Permalink Reply by Bill Patton on
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It was drizzling, I was serving and volleying successfully against the #1 seed, and was a break up. It started to rain lightly I started to slip all over the place. I stopped to ask the referee if we could stop, he GOD, said "No, I will let you know if its raining enough to stop". We continued, it got worse and worse, I lost in straight sets, it rained on and off throughout the match. The ref was a well known umpire on the ATP tour. When I see him in the chair, I cringe.
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Permalink Reply by Mark / The Mayor on
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Normally, doesn't the ref allow the players to make the decision since they don't want to be responsible if someone gets hurt?
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Permalink Reply by CoachV - William Vazquez on -
Oh i do.
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Go on.
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Permalink Reply by CoachV - William Vazquez on
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Ref said she wasn't going to call foot Faults on my opponent Because i was footfaulting. The thing is she believed that my toss into the court was a foot fault. Even though i never touched the court on my serve . After 20 minutes arguing With her in the final. I didn't want to play and lost. My opponent was footfaulting by 2 feet into the court the whole match.
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Crazy. I drives me nuts when someone in charge is less knowledgeable than the average tennis player. Well, did you ask her if she had a copy of the rule book there?
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Permalink Reply by CoachV - William Vazquez on
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We went through the rule book together for that 20 talk. Where read in the book ' a person cannot start any serve on the court. I told her i can be in the court not on. She told me i was wrong. Then after the match told me sorry. I told her you cheated me and cost me the match. And not to speak to me.
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Permalink Reply by Lana Johnson on
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Sometimes people in charge think that they are the ones who make the rules
someone pls remind them they're humans too...
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Thank you! I can't believe that no one around could have corrected this guy!
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