Welcome to your weekly installment of tales from our exciting life! It's been a wonderful week but I just cannot tell you how glad I am that we don't live in Florida. We were so happy to return to the FL State Closed BG10-12 tournament in Altamonte Springs (metro Orlando area) for the 2nd consecutive year and we were really hoping that the psycho tennis parent behavior could be kept to an absolute mininum. We will never forget last year's "lowlight" when the tournament director had to threaten to call the police to handle the tension between two MOTHERS. That's right, these were actually women who lost their minds (while I can't tell you how many young children were present to watch it all - they just stared and learned - HOW SAD).
We actually had our own extremely negative experience with one of the women about a year prior - and we know that she also acted like a perfect @&& at the G12 Supernational tournament last year. Well, we thought we were in the clear when we learned that she's since been banned from attending USTA junior tournaments in Florida. But neverfear, two fathers win this year's "prize". One father demanded that we not record his 10 year old DIVA (even though her opponent had requested and paid for the match 24 hours prior). And then another father threatened a lawsuit if the father of his 12 year old daughter's opponent did not take his camera down. #%!!#%@_*&#^#^%
As if that wasn't bad enough, it would soon get worse: The most PATHETIC part about it all happened when USTA Florida caved in to that unreasonable behavior. The vast majority of people LOVE our videos (which are clearly for training and keepsake purposes) but they won't be able to purchase them in Florida if their opponent's parent behaves like a jerk. What a LOUSY DECISION and I am sooo glad we only travel to Florida about twice a year. In fact, we may rethink that.
Everyone is entitled to an opinion and you've just heard mine. Clearly, I feel very strongly about it and this REALLY bothers me. Thanks to all the nice people we met but I'm just soo glad to be back in the Southern Section. Have a goooood week and don't forget to check back next Wednesday for your next report. I promise it'll be more positive than this week's installment.
1 comment:
Keep doing what your doing! Hightech is great! And my view is as much of an *** your customers opponent may be, they are in a public place and they have the right to be recorded. If they dont like it they can take there child to play in a private facility. Keep it going High Tech and I will see you at G12 super nationals this year!
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