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Rill
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Player Council - Geographer Joined: 17 Jun 2011 Location: California Status: Offline Points: 6903 |
Posted: 12 Oct 2012 at 18:53 |
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During the third set of the 1975 Australian Open final, Connors was the beneficiary of three consecutive controversial calls. Leading 40-15, Connors intentionally double-faulted, drawing a round of applause from the pro-Newcombe crowd. After Connors faulted on his first serve of the next point and lobbed the ball in the air for his second serve, a fan shouted “double fault.” Connors caught the ball, but would then double fault. He lost the game, the set, and ultimately the match. “I don’t regret throwing it, but don’t put me in the same position again,” Connors said afterward of his somewhat questionable display of sportsmanship.
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KillerPoodle
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Posted: 12 Oct 2012 at 19:11 |
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giving away 2 points is not deliberately throwing the set - as per his comment afterwards.
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"a little name-calling is a positive thing." - Rill |
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KillerPoodle
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Posted: 12 Oct 2012 at 19:15 |
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BTW - congrats on finding that example - what does it say that you had to go back 37 years to find one example?
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Ander
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Posted: 12 Oct 2012 at 19:20 |
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maybe she went for a famous example rather than looking at the timeline and finding the most recent one?
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Drejan
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Posted: 12 Oct 2012 at 19:24 |
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Better question is: would you consider someone who do not give 2 points to the looser a bad player?
And would you consider him a bad person? Edited by Drejan - 12 Oct 2012 at 19:24 |
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dunnoob
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Posted: 12 Oct 2012 at 19:24 |
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Edited by dunnoob - 12 Oct 2012 at 20:01 |
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GM Luna
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Community Manager Joined: 22 Oct 2011 Location: Illyriad Status: Offline Points: 2042 |
Posted: 12 Oct 2012 at 19:28 |
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If this is a topic about Illyriad and not about tennis, please get back on topic before derailing further. Thank you.
Luna
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Aral
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Posted: 12 Oct 2012 at 19:35 |
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It seems to me it's very much a topic about tennis... Back and forth and back and forth and back and forth...
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KillerPoodle
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Posted: 12 Oct 2012 at 19:42 |
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Faldrin
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Posted: 12 Oct 2012 at 20:14 |
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The problem is that people stop wars even before anyone is "down" or had any chance to show "sportmanship". All in all the game still need stuff to fight over that will give us advantages but wont siege people out of the game.
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