jt99sf wrote: on Sunday November 05, 2023 at 4:57pm
She was less than truthful when asked about her bh rubber. Instead of showing her racket, she looked it up on her phone and the rubber she stated only comes in black and red. Somewhat suspicious.
Lightspin wrote: replied to jt99sf on Sunday November 05, 2023 att 9:20pm
It is not really suspicious at all. If a player is sponsored by a certain company and use another company's products, they certainly do not want to advertise it. They would want to be as quiet about it as possible. There are countless examples of people who are sponsored by one company but play with a viscaria with a modified handle, or they use butterfly rubbers or H3 when their main sponsor is some other company.
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Not taking sides here.
Rules say that an opponent has a right to examine your racket but is that allowed only before a match as the rule says or can be interpreted to mean anytime before during or after a match and how often or how many times (to disrupt your (pip) opponent) . Nice strategy though if there are no stead and fast rule on this.
On the other hand an opponent does have a right to inspect your actual physical racket in your hand. It is crazy to show a web page cell phone and claim that it is the rubber they are using. If that is the case every player & any player can refuse to show their actual physical racket & simply ask the opponent to look up a specific rubber on approved list. So it does sound suspicious because it looked like the pips player did not want to get caught using a rubber she is sponsoring.