Tennis sportsmanship

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David Shepherd
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Tennis sportsmanship

Post by David Shepherd » Thu Jan 07, 2016 10:58 pm

For anyone interested in tennis

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/35253103
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Kevin Thurlow
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Re: Tennis sportsmanship

Post by Kevin Thurlow » Fri Jan 08, 2016 8:18 am

I think initially Hewitt suspected his opponent was trying to get him to waste a challenge. I recall someone about 50 years ago getting an ace called out and his opponent sportingly just left the second serve so the server got his point. You don't really expect that sort of thing these days.
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David Sedgwick
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Re: Tennis sportsmanship

Post by David Sedgwick » Fri Jan 08, 2016 11:20 am

Similar things do sometimes happen in chess.

http://www.gibraltarchesscongress.com/g ... allengers/. Scroll down to "Sportsman of the Day"
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