Most embarrassing court experience. You have the floor...?

Question

Ok, the RANT forum I put on here was tremendous fun! Sounds like many of you got a lot off your chest and felt better about it.

Aaaaand exhale!

Now for another bit of fun...

I (and by I, I mean everyone here) want to hear about your most embarrassing court experience. Lay out there. Hey we're all friends here right?

I'll start...

In college I use to brag that no girl at the college could ever beat me. I know, I know...that's embarrassing enough. But wait...there's more.

I asked a young lady who I grew up with to play (I hadn't seen her in years). I won the first game on 4 aces! Man, I had this one in the bag!!

That was the last game I won. Final score- 1-6, 0-6.

Sad thing is that it wasn't even close! LMAO! I was lucky to win a stinkin' point! Later I found out she was ranked #1 in the state and 40th in the US! That would've been good to know BEFORE she fed me my crosstrainers!

An no, I've not made such a claim since!

Your turn. You have the floor...

Answer 1

I have lots of embarassing experiences...
- I got hit in the nuts by an opponents serve. Pretty painful - I had a hard time breathing.
- During a mixed doubles match, my partner hit a lob to the net player, a girl, who overhead smashed the ball into my stomach.
- In the same mixed doubles match, I served a ball pretty hard to the girl who pegged me and it hit her in the chest. Hey, she wanted to play dirty - I returned the favor ;]
- Losing a match 6-1, 6-7, 6-7 to a dude who couldn't play for sh*t. I still haven't gotten over it - I guess I thought I already had it in the bag before the match was over.
- I hit myself in the face during a follow through on a running forehand - busted my lip open and it was bleeding like hell.
- My opponent hit a tough, cross court shot on me. I ran for the ball and ended up crashing into one of the light poles on the tennis courts - tore my acl. Miraculously, I won the point when my forehand shot caught the line!
- Getting owned by an 11 year old boy (I was 17 at the time) who had me running around the court like a dog playing fetch.

Answer 2

Well, my most embasrresing moment came actually yesterday. I had signed up for an intense workout routione with a Pro Coach and a group of advanced tennis players. We did laps and sprints and after a while I became dehydrated. Two minutes later I ran to the door and threw up all over the door handle and the floor of the court. I then ran to the restroom and vomited some more and fell onto the bathroom floor. I was so embarresed I could not even bare to go back out there.I looked like a wimp and really felt disgusted with myself. None the elss I walked backed out there and just ahd that feeling that everyone was secretly laughing at me behind my back. I got really embarresed and learned that I must drink more before training in the heat for three hours straight.

Answer 3

That's a fun question! I've had a couple pretty embarassing moments... In my senior year in high school I was playing one of my first matches at number one singles. Both teams were lined up on this hill that overlooked my court along with parents and friends. Unfortunately our 3 best players graduated so I jumped from number 4 singles to number 1 in a year and I was playing this guy from a prep school that probably had a racket in his hand when he was born. Anyway I decided I was going to go for a really big serve but my toss was too far out in front of me and as I jumped up to hit it I came down, lost my balance and fell on my face sending my racket a few feet away as it slipped from my hand. The serve went in at like maybe 50 miles an hour because I mishit it and he smacks the hell out of it for a winner while I'm busy wondering where my racket and my pride went... lol

Answer 4

Well as you read this it might not sound that embarrasing but trust me it was in person.

I was playing this kid in a local tourney, n i lost the first set 5-7, and it was 3-4 in the second. I was at add-in, and i served a blast right down the singles line... at least i thought. I was so excited (it was an intense match) so i did a fist pump and screamed COME ON! as i jogged to the net and tossed the balls over the net.

As i looked up for the first time since i hit the ball, my opponent was standing at the baseline with his index finger up in the air, as he said " um... i called that out"!! I was kinda mad but he did have his finger out when i hit the ball.

But then i had to take the ball back from him, and go back to the baseline to serve again, infront of like 15 people who were watching. I ended up losing that game and the match. But all i cared about was how stupid i looked as i ran to the net in joy after hitting a serve wide!

Answer 5

This might not sound embarrassing, but trust me, it was.

It was after tennis practice and me and a few people decided to hang around and get some extra hits in. After a while, there was only three of us left so I decided to be a ballgirl. I was running across the court to get a ball that was by the net and I didn't realize my shoe was untied. So I bent over to get the ball then got up and started to push off to run again. Needless to say, I tripped. It was facefirst onto the surface. Worst part was, the football team was just leaving practice and saw it all happen.

Answer 6

I was hitting against the backboard at a pretty busy local tennis center. All was going well. Pretty consistent... then the ball took a weird bounce and kicked up at me. I swung but I have no idea if I actually managed to hit the ball. All I remember is my ankle folding under me. Next thing, I was on my *** on the court... feeling like a complete dumb-***. Although my ankle was throbbing, all I could think was.- "Oh God! I hope no one was looking!" When I finally got back to my feet, I was relieved to see that my uniquely un-Federerlike move had somehow gone completely unnoticed. Did I ever luck out. They'd probably have thought I was trying to play drunk.

Answer 7

Ok, here it goes..i was stepping up to the service line to serve in the finals of a tournament that i had enter and i went to put a ball in my pocket and noticed that i had put my shorts on backwards and it went down backwards and like rolled near my butt and their was nothing i could do about for a whole set(which i lost) b/c it was rubbing up aganist my side everytime i would move from side to side. Some people watching noticed it as well. but i took a bathroom break and fixed it after the second set and then came back and won the match.

Answer 8

One time I was practicing serves and I wanted to know what a 120 mph serve was like and my coach told me to go to the other side and he served the ball. I tried to dodge it but it came so fast that I ran right into it and the ball got me right in the face. At first it was numb and I didn't feel anything and my coach and I were laughing. I went to go get a drink of water and then I all of a sudden felt the major pain and the tears started flowing and I got a massive headache.

Answer 9

During a high school doubles match I smashed my best overhead ever. It landed in, went over the fence, across the street and into a persons' yard. I had my partner go look for it. He couldn't find it. I went over and asked the owner if had seen a tennis ball.(He was mowing his lawn.) We eventually found it under a tree. This was over a span of about 10 minutes and our opponets were getting impatient. We won the match though.

Answer 10

I tried to blast a serve and I tossed a little out in front, so when I went to swing I threw my racquet, destroying it, will simaltaneously falling on my face. The racquest was twisted and distorted, while I was full of shame and embarassment.

I just layed there for a least 10 seconds, clutching my knee, pretending I was in pain. Only to overshadow my public humiliation.