Is unethical to score an Ace in Tennis like this?

Most Unethical Moves in Tennis


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stop throwing me thats cheap
stop using low Fierce Kicks its too OP
your not aspos'ta use hadouken when i dont have enough health to block it
no hit the ball right at me and fast so i dont have to move that wasnt fair dont hit it slow
stop using backspin in ping pong it keeps going into the net youre not being very nice
let me run to the halfcourt line uncontested full court press is unfair
your not allowed to steal bases i cant even see you thats messed up
let me pass you my car is faster stop blocking me from passing you
 
I remember seeing this kind of tactics in the Prince of Tennis anime.

Well, in Prince of Tennis, there was Atobe's Tannhauser Serve which never bounced, and Tezuka's Zero Shiki serve, which doesn't bounce and actually reverses when it hits the gorund.

lol
 
If the rules allow it, who's to say you can't? Never seen it done in my limited tennis watching experience. Change the rules if it's a problem.
 
I must admit, I did this once in a high school match. I hated the little shit on the other side, he would sometimes do little dances while I served to try and distract me. Hit a really hard serve that he couldn't return, he backed up, then I sliced it just over the net and by the time he realized what happened it had already bounced twice. I remember how hard my heart was beating after I saw it clear the net, because I would have looked so damn stupid if I had missed the shot...
 
Interestingly Max Scherzer actually got a strikeout on a guy doing this just two starts ago. In MLB, though, the batter is supposed to be "reasonably set" or something like that before the pitcher delivers, which means more than just having both feet in the box. His pitch probably should have been considered an illegal quick pitch and a ball.

There's a name for it! Quick pitching. Never knew. Whelp. I got screwed by a little league ump.
 
i always wondered if people didnt do it because they were good sports. i suppose you cant give that much effect like you would table tennis but it can work from the looks of it
 
I get the football POV, however it's understood that anything goes when it comes to scoring goals. Hence all the BS you see in football. Diving, faking offsides, claiming ball in or out by others. Cheap tricks in football goes with the game. So back to tennis being a sport where respect is respected. This chump played a typical football "cheap trick" shot. Not cool.

What? How is it like any of those things? Wouldn't an accurate comparison for this in association football be lobbing a penalty kick down the middle when the keeper thinks you're going to blast it into the corner?
 
Martina Hingis did this in the 1999 French Open final as a way to say "fuck you" to Steffi Graf, and was pretty much booed out of the stadium. Probably the most dramatic Slam final in history.

https://youtu.be/AqLr00Krd0k
How did it take two pages for this?

I used to like Hingis but this was such a shit move. It's not "unethical" it's just not sportsmanlike.
 
Unethical? If anything, shit like that makes the game more enjoyable.

I want that term to be a thing in fighting games.

UNETHICAL!
 
It's a game.

If they don't want people to do it, they should make it a fault to serve underhand.

I would be interested to know how the people who think this is "unsportsmanlike" feel about fouls in basketball.
 
What if someone put so much back spin on the ball that it hit and then bounced in the opposite direction and hit the net, or bounced back to the server side?


Edit: oh shit it happened in the video above! Is this possible on a serve?
 
Nah. Now in cricket there is an infamous unethical issue. I can't remember who it was with, but I'm pretty sure it was the Australian team who were the victims.

In cricket the bowler has to throw the ball at the cricketer. However there was either at the time no rules on how to throw the ball or still aren't. Final minutes of the game. To win the Australian team last batsman needs to score a very small amount of runs. There is a good chance they could win.

The bowler wants his team to win, so he throws the ball in the most awful way possible. He rolls it to the batter. The batter is fucked. The batter needs to knock it out as far as possible because once he hits the ball anyone on the other team can tap him put. So rolling means he can't knock it anywhere, he loses the game and the bowler wins it for his team.

Not against the rules. Extremely unsportsmanlike and it caused a lot of bad blood.
 
Pfft. That's amateur hour.

I thought the thread would be about this:

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Oh man how is there not a Harlem Globetrotters of tennis? Like people playing doubles doing all kinds of coordinated stunts??
 
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