Wimpy High School Tennis Player Forfeited due to Crowd

Wow, talk about some wimpy people at the high school level.

“We had an unfortunate experience,” New Hampshire Interscholastic Activities Association Executive Director R. Patrick Corbin told the Nashua Telegrah. “I’ve never seen something like this at a tennis match.”

The forfeit occurred when Corbin attempted to shift the girls singles final to a different court at the conclusion of the first set, which Swett won 6-4. Yet, instead of heading to the new court, Leonard left the scene entirely, retreating to her car with her parents and driving home.

So the crowd was heckling her and instead of ignoring them and beating her opponent she just left? This was for the state championship as well. That doesn't make any sense. Although her parents statement says quite a bit:

The elder Leonards told the Telegraph that their daughter was being persecuted by the crowd because she lives in Massachusetts and attends high school in New Hampshire.

“They were bullying her,” Karen Leonard told the Telegraph. “This has been going on for two years. They’ve wanted her out for two years because she’s not a New Hampshire girl. Because we live in Massachusetts.”

Wow of all the words they could have used they used persecuted? Not cajoled or heckled or anything like that but persecuted? That might say a lot about the parents.

Also instead of standing up to the bullies she just got into her parents car and left? Wow, talk about a wimpy person. The parents should have given her a pep-talk and had her go in there determined to shut up the crowd by smashing her opponent. If she lost then at least she gave it her all and those evil New Hampshites threw her off her game. Instead she runs away like the proverbial little girl.