{"id":47055,"date":"2025-10-23T15:09:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T15:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47055"},"modified":"2025-10-24T17:31:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T17:31:14","slug":"whos-the-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47055","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s the baby?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who&#8217;s the baby here: I heard a &#8216;ball on court&#8217; call so I stopped. Our oppenonts offered no replay of the point. Two games later in the second set, another &#8216;ball on court&#8217; occured and they wanted a replay. I said no because of the last one. So the tall oppenont called me a baby, &#8220;that&#8217;s 15 minutes ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Who&#8217;s the baby here?<\/li>\n<li>Why calling me name, when I merely follow YOUR rule?<\/li>\n<li>And what does time have to do with this matter?<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;is conscious gnawing at you?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is the most illogial and ontificative act I&#8217;ve enoucnted on a tennis court. Shame on you.<\/p>\n<p>.. the warm up and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46242\">a game<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"warm up 10 23\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gE19zdXUPCg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I lost all my serves in the set. At 4-4 and 30-40, the tall opponent hit a short ball to my right. I was about to chase it down, I heard \u2018ball on court\u2019 and saw the two next door neighbors were standing. So I stopped and looked back. Their ball was on the baseline. After I retrieved the ball, did I realize the game and set was over and we lost.<\/p>\n<p>the first set, I served first<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>0-1<\/li>\n<li>0-2<\/li>\n<li>1-2<\/li>\n<li>1-4<\/li>\n<li>4-4, 30-40&#8230; ball on court. Game set.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The second set, B served first; one serve landed on the middle line or near the line. I didn&#8217;t call: &#8216;99% out still 100% in&#8217; is my motto (<span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">seriously, when player or players circling the ball mark, is he or are they considering the mark itself or fighting the moral guilit of their conscious?<\/span>) I was the next serve. Ball on court. They expected me to replay the point. I stood on the ad court, and said no. Mr. Tall said, &#8220;oh you&#8217;re a baby, that was 15 minutes ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Al and Bob left. So VJ and I played 5 games of singles, stopped at 4-1.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"the first game - lost\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sb74MxME_jY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This morning at 4-4, 30-40 (coming back from 1-4), I\u2019ve a \u201cball on court\u201d call from the neighbors and stopped. Our opponents decided that meant game and set.<br \/>\nThen, second game of the next set, another \u201cball on court\u201d\u2014and they wanted a replay. I said no.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Tall didn\u2019t like that. \u201cThat was 15 minutes ago,\u201d he snapped, calling me a baby.<\/p>\n<p>Excuse me? You make the rule, I follow it, and now I\u2019m the baby?<\/p>\n<p>Sounds like someone\u2019s memory \u2014 and conscience (gnawing?) \u2014 are lost.<\/p>\n<p>This was the most illogical, unsportsmanlike act I\u2019ve ever seen on a court.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That game was 8 hours ago and long forgotten by everyone who played this morning. No one cares, except you and including the entire group in this text requires me to respond so everyone knows what type of person you are.<\/p>\n<p>Just to clarify what happened today. No one on our side heard ball on the court. Your partner came to the net and said nice game or something like that.<br \/>\n( actually he said we won)<br \/>\nAs we started to play the next game together, Bob asked up or down and we were to serve. I gave you the balls and you hit them back to them. I said we are serving do you want to serve you said no, so I served. After each point, if the ball was near you, you just kicked it to the side. Never picking it up and giving it back to me. This went on for two games with you not speaking to me. You continued to just kick the ball into the corner. Bob complained but you just continued to sulked. When they served to me I asked you if the ball was in and you answered you were not looking.<br \/>\nDuring the next point I called ball on the court behind them. You started yelling now you call ball on the court. Yes I called it because I didn&#8217;t want anyone getting hurt.<br \/>\nI play tennis for fun and exercise. I enjoy my fellow players and you were a big baby complaining because you lost a tennis game. You are a terrific tennis player and I have enjoyed playing with you in the past. I hope to never play with you again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Oh baby, is it my Chinglish &#8211; don\u2019t twist the subject &#8211; It\u2019s about replay of the point, not when\/if someone calls it.<br \/>\nI wouldn\u2019t have said a word when (IF?) you called \u201cball on court.\u201d It was when you wanted to replay the point that I said no. Your memory here? Let\u2019s say it\u2019s got a few unforced errors.<\/p>\n<p>That first \u201cball on court\u201d &#8211; it was sitting pretty right on the baseline of the deuce court, across the alley from the pickleball courts.<br \/>\nMight be time for an eye exam. And FYI \u2014 lying isn\u2019t sexy, no matter how tall you are.<\/p>\n<p>I went to pick up the ball, so I missed the net-side summit. Whatever was decided, the point wasn\u2019t replayed \u2014 no dispute there, right? How I behaved on court is in the eyes of the beholders.<\/p>\n<p>As for your heroic \u201cI didn\u2019t want anyone getting hurt\u201d \u2014 here is my little promotional ad: I always<br \/>\noffer a replay when &#8216;ball on court&#8217;.<br \/>\nremind opponents when it rolls back.<br \/>\nlet go of close calls: 99% out is still 100% in.<br \/>\nand smile when I lose = the group\u2019s got game = there&#8217;s room to improve.<\/p>\n<p>Guess I\u2019m just more of a man than you are &#x1f923;&#x1f61c;&#x1f607;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who&#8217;s the baby here: I heard a &#8216;ball on court&#8217; call so I stopped. Our oppenonts offered no replay of the point. Two games later in the second set, another &#8216;ball on court&#8217; occured and they wanted a replay. I said no because of the last one. 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