Johnson said:

I played junior tourneys in the 90's and never witnessed any parents acting out, tourneys would start on a friday and typically there may not even be any parents there but even if they were they weren't instigating drama. I coached hs tennis and there weren't any issues with the parents but watching my older nephew play travel baseball was a completely different story!!

I always thought that the elite tennis players in the state who's dads were either doctors or lawyers were the most spoiled kids until I watched my older nephew race 4 wheelers. One family had an RV with basically a garage in the rear and a motorized ramp to lift bikes/4 wheelers into it!!

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I am not a tennis person, but my parents were. My father was watching a high level junior tournament and saw a brother and sister leaving the tournament with their father and their trophies. You have heard of them. Brother is world class. Brother won that tournament, sister finished second in her division. Father yanked the trophy from her hands and threw it in the trash, saying stuff like we don’t finish second in this family etc…. Sounded nice.

People that have any fame and our intelligent use social media to post to because it’s just the world we live in but then never look at the comments. What you’re talking about goes on in all sports. Some famous basketball player takes shit on twitter and his momma has to get on and make a fool of herself and him. Social media could have been amazing but it’s turned into poison

Btw you must be new to the game I guess . Pool is doing better then it’s done in a long time . It wasn’t but less then 10 years ago that there was only a couple major tournaments and you were watching pro’s play in the local pa 9 ball championship just trying to earn a little money to eat. We are now far from that with payouts continually rising. We are in a better place then we have been since the early to mid 90s