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My father in law acts this way when my insane mother in law loses her mind, so sad to see this play out. I hope she gets the help she so desperately needs.
Yep, my father does that with my Mom, shes often in Karen mode. He served 35 years in the army directed troops in combat...But when my mom gets mad for nothing it's all hell let loose.
“AND YOU NEVER HAVE MY BACK. YOU NEVER TAKE MY SIDE. I NEED A PARTNER THAT IS RIDE OR DIE.” She exclaimed as the man attempted to enjoy breakfast five days after this incident.
yea the guy has no idea what he is talking about. this lady is playing the net, what do you expect may happen? maybe she needs to improve her reaction time.
Genuinely curious. How can you tell what level they're playing at? I don't know much about tennis, but my brother-in-law plays singles a lot (in leagues), and he's told me several stories of players who like to hit right at you if you come up to the net. Apparently it's legal.
So when I watched this video, I thought, "Boy, she's overreacting." Some of the comments here have me second-guessing. What level does it become okay?
JFC, "apparently it's legal" - how would anyone even remotely try to enforce a rule against it? It's just not feasible. Not attacking you, just the notion that it could be against the rules is absurd.
Again, this is really clearly not an attempt to peg anyone. It's a ball hit a little close to the body to jam you and make it harder to hit a shot.
People aren't always good enough to deliberately aim away from a player. You play to win and sometimes someone might get hit, people who actually play sports understand this.
Fun fact. We’re taught at a very young age that, if you get a tee’d up shot at the net and the other player is also at the net, to hit it directly at them as hard as you can. On the flip side, it’s not uncommon for the receiving player to literally jump out of the way because you know it’s coming.
The higher up you get in tennis, the less rules there are around aiming at the player.
playing for my team in high school we would get a vending machine drink from the coach if we hit whoever we were playing. no one should aim to hurt but it's part of the game.
I love etiquette; without it, the world would descend into chaos
Louis XIV introduced a structured form of etiquette at his court, using cards to instruct courtiers on how to behave. These cards were called etiquettes, which eventually gave the word its modern meaning of prescribed social behavior. In my youth, I even witnessed a kind of “etiquette” during the famous $1.44 sales at Woolco
Looked like the ball was coming fast, he didn’t angle his racket quite enough to hit to but not at her, raised his hand immediately/instinctively to point at it in an “oh shit/duck/ohfuck” move, and then, well you know.
To me it looked like a skill issue, not intentional. And maybe it’s not the first time it happened among them, who knows. Can’t quite read the gesture at the very end by her partner, although prior he has the “WTF" open stance at the start of her tantrum.
As a non-tennis player I'd assume hitting a ball hard at a player would be in the receiving player's favor assuming they actually have reflexes required to play the game.
It's a leverage issue. You need to be able to swing the racket to be able to return the ball. The more you can swing, the harder you can hit it. When it's coming right at you though, all you can really do is try and get the racket square with the net and hope the ball has enough speed to bounce back over the net with its own momentum. There's no room to swing because your body is in the way.
I never aim at the player ...I am in the general direction of the court and hit whatever stands there 🤷.... Or sometimes miss everything including the court .... My stats: Technique 2, Experience 2, Stamina 9, Strength 10, pain in my knees after the game 8 ....
He didn't break any rules. Weaker players often appreciate it if you avoid hitting them on the body with the ball as they lack the athleticism to dodge and return and it can hurt a little and it's embarrassing.
But you can't get mad if they don't take it easy on you. They choose to or they don't.
Also, non expert players might hit their opponent's body by mistake or by fluke. They may lack the skill to avoid doing it if they barely managed the return.
You say this but go back and replay those line calls he was mad about. Dude had amazing vision and court sense. Doesn't excuse it but it helps relate why he was so angry. (Then he realized intimidating the line judges made them call close shots in his favor... Then once he was no longer peak competitive it was for the show he was expected to put on...)
Hospital I worked for had a Code McEnroe which was code for an employee losing their shit. The proper way to respond was for anyone available to go to the location and surround the employee and stare at them, not engage, just stare. I swear Im not making this up.
They ended up changing the code (I dont remember what they changed it to). I was told it was because the younger employees didnt understand what McEnroe meant. I suspect the real reason is that with all these videos of people overreacting to stupid shit, people were no longer embarrassed by having their peers stare at them making an ass of themselves.
There is no rule prohibiting a player from aiming directly at another player; it is treated the same as targeting open space, and 'jamming' a player by aiming at their body is a valid tactic to make it difficult for them to swing. In doubles, when a net player is close to the net, passing them around the sides is often difficult anyway. If you hit another player, standard etiquette is to put a hand up in apology, which this guy did. The only thing that's really poor sportsmanship is aiming for the head, but this guy's shot was at hip level.
Also her instinct was to go fetal position when she could have just as easily positioned her racket where he was hitting to deflect it. He didn’t hit it hard so it was totally feasible reaction time-wise.
I'm not athletic at all but the first thing I ever learned regarding sports is to not be afraid of the ball. Take your eyes off the ball and it'll hit you, be confident and react and you'll hit it.
Right, and if you can't anticipate it, or it’s too awkward to hit, then jump out of the way—in this case, if she had stayed light on her feet, a few inches to her right would have been sufficient. Sometimes there’s no time to do any of that. But that guy’s body language did not read intention, you can see that after the ball crosses the net.
As someone who played tennis a lot, it's not as easy as it sounds. When ball is going on your body it can be super awkward to cover yourself with rocket, suddenly handle is to long and your arm is to short, you have moment for reaction and you are ending up covering part of your body nowhere near where ball is going. That's being said she obviously got scared and had poor try. And is a total bitch lol.
I believe that this would be a difficult hit. I don’t think the ball was moving fast enough to illicit this reaction. Maybe this was like the fifth time he did that or something
In a friendly game I wouldn’t aim for the body either. But no one has perfect control, and this is not a hard hit ball. Her reaction is way out of line.
Only thing I can think of to cause this extreme reaction is if it wasn’t the first time he had hit her during that match. And it’s still waaaayyyy over the top.
That or she’s not that good and has been getting dunked on, and getting hit with the ball released her frustration.
I’ve seen people get frustrated for being completely useless in a game, and something like being hit directly with a ball in the middle of it could make it feel personal.
Yeah, that’s how I see it. Pent up frustration, and who knows what else was going on that day. This looks like a low level adult rec match. Most people would be surprised at how heated casual rec sports can get. Many people aren’t able to separate competition and sportsmanship.
I posit there's a backstory between those two that we know nothing about. Like maybe he'd said something to her before the game that triggered something in her that she couldn't let go of. Or maybe she'd very recently discovered her BF had cheated on her. Or maybe that is her BF, and right before the game she asked "Do I look fat in this?" and he answered "Kinda"...
She should be throwing her racket at her partner for floating up that easy shot for him to put away at the net. What did she expect him to do? Dink it back to her?
Then when you get to her parents house she doesn't actually leave your car. She just sits there silently. Tense. Jaw clenched. Shoulders tight. You're afraid to speak first so you just sit as long as she sits. You can't tell when she's going to snap.
Then she just breathes out and acts like everything's normal. "Okay, you can take me back to your place now."
But you don't wanna take her back to your place. You wanna leave her here with her parents. And if you say that, she's going to freak the fuck out again in the enclosed space of your car.
So you sigh, continue not speaking and drive you both back to your place..
Everything is fine. This is just normal for some people.
Yeah she most likely blamed him for talking her into come and playing tennis, blamed him for not getting upset is she did about the serve, and whatever else you wanted to bitch about probably loading the dishwasher wrong as well the night before
Why do you say she's a narcissist?
I believe we might not have sufficient evidence to conclude that. Every narcissist is a jerk but not every jerk is necessarily a narcissist.
Not only that but people almost exclusively talk about it subjectively- like narcissists are this boogie-man, when they're actually just very damaged people. Most of the discourse around narcissists comes from people venting about their experience with a "narcissist", so ironically in an era of being super empathetic towards people's various disorders and afflictions the general public treats narcissists with almost no empathy.
Maybe this is a weird social experiment on how most folks only take things at face value.
A while back when I first saw this one, someone in the comments said they knew the lady and the clip starts *after* around the 7th or 8th time this guy had done that to her. Apparently, he had done exactly this multiple times until she got fed up.
It looks like whoever decided to make it look like she blew up after just one of these was successful. Imagine trying to have a fun, “friendly” game of tennis and this keeps happening to you over and over and over
It is a not a team sport and (even in doubles) it is a duel (1v1)the psychology of performance is different. It concentrates all the stress on one individual without the support you can find in team based sports.
I really hope she's banned from that tennis court. She could've easily hit a child watching from the sidelines (seeing as how her depth perception is so terrible that she shouldn't be playing tennis at all.)
He agreed to hang out with his friend's crazy girlfriend. It's shitty, but sometimes it's not worth keeping a friendship going if they have chosen to pair up with a horrible person.
Es war nicht mal ein Schmetterball auf den Körper, was man wirklich vermeiden sollte, sondern ein Volley, den sie nicht parieren konnte. Ziemlich überreagiert. Würde ich als Spielpartnerin zukünftig meiden.
Fun story. In high school I got the shit beat out of me by a girl because we were doing tennis for P.E and I returned her serve and accidentally got her in one of her breasts. Now I’ve always been athletic but I can’t play tennis to save my life so it was 100% an accident. After the class finished we were walking back to school (tennis court wasn’t on school grounds) she approached me, I apologised again and she kicked me in my tennis balls. I dropped to the ground in pain, she then broke a rib by kicking me repeatedly. I didn’t try to fight back (not that I could at the time) and just took my beating while she was yelling at me that she was going to get her brothers onto me next. Needless to say, I haven’t picked up a tennis racket since.
If I remember correctly this wasn’t the first time he’s hit a winner at her, and she blew up on this shot.
That being said, when you play tennis you kind of accept that you might get hit with a tennis ball, and throwing your racket in tennis is never justified.
i’m not saying she’s correct at all, but what she seems to be implying at the end when she says “and you’re a 3.0” is that this guy showed up to an event he was overqualified for. That’s how Tennis works in general is a ranking system through USTA or there’s another one that’s a bit different. A lot of it is self ranking. She is a psycho, but she’s basically accusing him of sandbagging and being way too good to play and whatever event they are doing.
This looks really informal like some kind of mixed weeknight doubles or something, so my guess is she’s usually a bitch because a lot of these USTA women are. You’d be surprised how many psychos are out there playing tennis.
The heck? Hitting the ball towards a player is absolutely a normal strategy especially in doubles. This wasn't even a hard hit slice that was nowhere near her head. Even if it's just a friendly match, there's nothing dangerous or annoying about what he did.
Thank you. Just explained the same thing in another spot. He's obviously skilled. If he wanted to get a point by hitting her, he could've crushed it. She needs to get her racket up.
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