* Sandgren is named for his Swedish grandfather, and kinda didn't have a choice about his career path.
He was the top seed at this weeks ATP Challenger event in Cary, North Carolina. The Challenger Tour is one step below the main tour, kinda like AAA tennis. Sandgren faced fellow American Christopher Eubanks in the first round. Sandgren broke Eubanks to start the match, then faced deuce in the second game.
We'll let Sandgren take it from here:
So tonight I got hit in the nuts by a ball kid toss with a little too much mustard, slapped the wayward ball into the fence, which collided with a refs tushy as he was walking to the other side, resulting in a default.
— Tennys Sandgren (@TennysSandgren) September 15, 2021
How’s your evening going? 😂 pic.twitter.com/Tqe7lOkCLy
He followed that Tweet up with another that read, "And just to be clear, this was all totally my fault."
In addition to defaulting the match against Eubanks, Sandgren was forced out of the doubles event, as well. Costly nut shot, but Tennys Sandgren earned some fans by being accountable and even having a little fun at his own expense. He even earned a Twitter follow from me. Which has gotta be worth something.
Here's video of the entire very short match - the action that matters happens at about the 1:20 mark:
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Puts a whole different spin on the term ballboy. Tort law recognizes that uncontrolled movements shouldn't result in negligence liability. For example, if you sneeze while driving and get in an accident you aren't negligent. Seems to me that if someone smacks you in the testes with a tennis ball you shouldn't be liable for whatever you do immediately afterwards.
And that is the doughiest collection of on-court officials I've ever seen. I wonder if any of them play tennis, or have ever been hit in the testes with a wayward tennis ball in the middle of a match.
Worst pain there is
as noted in the text
on a different topic, econometrically speaking, where does the marginal utility of a very affectionate and sweet cat intersect with the 'that increasingly shits and pisses all over the place' curve?
zcat had this problem over the last few months of her life. She would pee in the litter box but for some reason would poop right outside it. She lost her aim. After 13 good years I accepted the fact that I had to deal with it. I got a bigger litter box which helped a little bit, and picked up poop when necessary.
I am not, however, dealing with zdog's errant turds in the dining room. I made it clear that this is zwoman/zson's dog. I forfeited all dog selection and naming rights (zmother-in-law vetoed Georgia, somehow she had a say in all this), and thus all accompanying in-house excreta responsibilities.
Sorry. I meant: in the family jewels?
Zmother-in-law gets veto rights over your dog name? You ok, Z?
Run the family jewels?
I threw my hands up and walked away from the entire canine undertaking. I play with her and walk her when I feel like it, but otherwise she isn't my responsiblity.
What name did Zdogparents choose?
I'm looking forward to Zman's first installment of "I guess it's my dog, after all".
Hopefully it won't be directly related to the pup eating something it shouldn't, then requiring emergency vet services on a weekend.
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