Revenge match victories are the sweetest! If you play long enough, you will get these chances for revenge!
Two stories…….
In the finals of a tournament, match point, and the player allegedly wins the match. Ref calls the shot good and the opponent begs for a replay. The player complies, the opponent wins that rally and ultimately comes back to win the match. Then proceeds to tell the losing player that the shot was a winner and they really wanted to win that match. Fast forward to a few months later with the same two athletes playing in a final. Player who won the previous match begs for a replay in the tiebreaker.
Said Athlete who complied a few months before and was cheated out of the match says. “How’s your memory? Mine’s good!” Said Athlete wins the match on second try(and actually won the previous match too).
Another anecdote-A player I coached had a camera set up and video taped my match. I was in a tie-breaker and at around 8-6 I make a shot and this guy tells me it skipped and let’s replay it. I can still see my buddy in the back wall glass begging me not to replay it but i did out of courtesy. At 9-9 he blatantly skips a ball the ref calls good. I asked him to replay it. He said something to me I cannot repeat followed by “I’m taking the call!”
I lost.
He was in a different age division so it was four years before I played him again. Knowing I might see him in the draw I pulled the video out of the desk drawer to view it. I had not looked at the video ever. Sure enough, it was exactly as I remembered it. The first shot I hit was good and the last shot he hit skipped. So I meet him in the finals. At 10-0 in the breaker (Oh yeah-going for the revenge donut all the way!) He dives for a passing shot and cuts my knees and I end up sitting on his head. He kept pushing me to get me off of him but I really enjoyed that long second of an exclamation revenge donut plus a human head chair! Oh by the way I played him one week later and beat him again. If ever anyone had it coming to them…….
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