My girlfriend and I were talking about when we were younger and high school in particular. We got onto the topic of sports. She asked me what sports teams I played on for my school. I told her that I wasn’t on any sports teams in high school but that I just played casually with friends. She straight up laughed at me and said I must not be athletic. I told her that while I definitely don’t consider myself a great athlete, that I still can manage well enough with most sports. I told her I played on baseball, football and soccer teams when I was a kid.
She was on her high school tennis team so I told her that I could probably win a few rounds against her because I played during the summers with my friends. She thought that was hilarious and said there was no chance in hell that could happen.
So fast forward a few days later and we go to the tennis courts. To be honest, I was kind of mad with the way she ridiculed me and assumed I wouldn’t be good so I played my hardest. She didn’t win a single match against me and at one point yelled "what the fuck!?" when I returned a shot that came close to hitting her (but it was still in).
Finally she had enough and didn’t speak to me the rest of the night. So should I have taken it easy on her?
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No you did the right thing.
This is a her problem not a you problem.
Just do not bring it up or lord it over her.
This \^\^. Keep the win on the court, don’t bring it home with you. As for winning overwhelmingly: she did set up the challenge, and now she knows that her assumption was wrong. It’s up to her to manage her feelings about it in a mature way.
Justice, served.
She didn’t win a single match? There are points, games and sets in a tennis match. How many games and sets did you play? Tough to take this seriously when you can’t even describe the sport.
Same thought. Pretty major tell that this is made up.
Or OP is a tennis casual (which is pretty much what he said) and just calls a game a match.
It might be but that’s the dumbest thing to fixate on. I don’t watch tennis. I play casually as possible. I call them matches.
Y’all tennis nerds are the worst
We literally say “It’s a tennis match” when we see two people arguing back and forth. That is clearly a word that casuals use to describe games, and this comment is pointlessly pedantic.
Not the fucking Tennis Police lmfaooooooo
Love means nothing to a tennis player.
This story sounds pretty contrived. But if it’s real…
Your girlfriend laughed at you and made fun of you for not being athletic?
The answer isn’t to school her on the tennis court, the answer is to make her your ex-girlfriend.
Yeah I call bullshit. Unless her high school tennis team was an absolute joke, the skill difference in tennis by playing regularly for presumably years vs playing a few times in the summer is huge.
If a woman trained properly for a few years and a guy never had a lesson at all, she will beat him. Tennis is really fucking hard.
Also, you say matches not points or games or sets. A match takes minimum 90 minutes if it’s 3 sets how many did you even play?
And before anyone goes ‘ugh but men are stronger ugh’ just a reminder that the top pro tennis women still will regularly have male hitting partners who are in the top 200-300 (aka also guys who’ve trained since they were minimum 10 ys old) so just ‘being a man’ doesn’t make that much of a difference…..
YTA for making up this dumb story.