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In tennis when a player hits a lucky shot that hits the top of the net and bounces over the unwritten rule is the player who hit the lucky shot acknowledges it with a "sorry".

it does sound stupid when you type it out like that, but its etiquette. the social contract if you will that is part of the culture of competitive tennis. getting all riled up about it in public is the stupid part

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Posted by NorthTxLSU

Dallas to Austin to Houston

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Posted on 8/29/25 at 11:59 am to fr33manator

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This post was edited on 8/29/25 at 12:00 pm

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Posted by UptownJoeBrown

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Posted on 8/29/25 at 12:02 pm to loogaroo

Yawn

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Posted by Swamp Angel

Somewhere on a river

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Posted on 8/29/25 at 12:16 pm to loogaroo

What ever happened to the days when women tennis players didn't look like SEC offensive linemen?

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Posted by NytroBud

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Posted on 8/29/25 at 1:32 pm to loogaroo

Those some big arse women to be playing tennis

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Posted by OweO

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Member since Sep 2009

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Posted on 8/29/25 at 1:52 pm to CocomoLSU

After Townsend (black girl) beat the other girl (who is Latvian), the other girl (white Latvian) told her something about how she doesn't have class and is probably uneducated. When I saw the highlights of it, I took it as the Latvian girl was pissed because she lost.

Townsend was asked if she thought it was racist and she said she didn't really take it that way, but it was possible.

If it happened 20 years ago, it would have been a non story that only tennis fans would still be talking about. But social media does what it does and you can find 10 different versions of the story.

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