If you play racquetball you will run into cheating usually sooner, not later! Dirty tricks Defense is a must if you are going to the top of your game. I will never forget at least 3 tiebreaker incidents which resulted in heart-breaking losses.
I’m serving for the match at 10-10 and win the match. I am in the locker room showering and the ref was a friend of the guy I just beat. He talks the ref into overturning his call(which was correct by the way-it was a two bounce get by my opponent). I was so mad I told the crowd I would beat him twice. I was wrong! I only beat him once and it was the once that did not go in the record books! I served again and lost!
Incident two. Again serving for the match and I win. But my opponent says, “Honest, my shot did not skip. Play it again please.”
Like an idiot I play it again. He wins that game and the breaker. But the kicker was after the match when he told me it did bounce twice and he laughed about it.
Incident three-I’m playing in a breaker and win the rally. Score is about 5-5. My opponent begs me to replay. I do. Get to 9-9 and he hits a skip. Ref calls it good and I ask him to replay it. He replies in words I cannot repeat in public followed by “I’m taking it!”
3 matches and 3 losses. In all three cases I got the opponents back in other matches. In all three cases these same opponents asked me for replays in future matches. In the subsequent matches I Iet the ref call the game. By the way one of these was on video and I had the video to prove it!
You must learn to handle the dirty tricks and you must learn to deal with it. Not all matches and games are going to go smoothly. If an opponent cannot beat you straight up they will employ trickery.
Here’s hoping you do better than I did in the cases above and if you do not, I’m hoping you got sweet revenge as I did in all three cases!!