Anyway, we had expected this. So, we had brought our tennis gear as well. Thanks to Jaskaran, who had forssen this possibility. And, fortunately, there was a tennis court unreserved from 10pm till 11pm.
By rule, you can reserve a tennis court with two Sports Card for a single time slot (half hour ). Since we were four of us : Jaskaran, Sonell, Yaseer and I, we were able to book one court for two time slots (one hour) and decided to play Doubles. But it was 9:15, so had to wait for almost an hour before we could claim our court.
At 10 pm, we claimed our court and started warm up practice session before starting a game. After ten minute practice we decided to start a match. We had barely finished a set, when these two guys approached us asking us to leave the court as they had reserved the next time slot (10:30 to 11 pm)on this court. When we protested, they told us that if you are playing Doubles, you are not allowed to reserve a court for more than half an hour. " We are sorry, but thats the rule" , said guys smiling.
First we thought that the guys were playing trick on us. The rule seemed too stupid to be true.
But when these guys persisted on claiming the court we had to leave. We were furious, but kept our cool and headed straight to the reception and enquired if that was really a rule. To our great astonishment the receptionist told us it was. The rule was enforced to give opportunity to increasing number to students enrolling in sports centrum.
First of all, I believe this half an hour slot is too small for any player to practice properly. It takes about fifteen minutes for warm up and another 40 minutes (atleast) to play a decent match. You don't get to do anything wothwhile in just half an hour.
Secondly, consider this scenario. A pair of students book a time slot (half hour) on a tennis court. While they sulk that they came all the way from home (half an hour away), to be able to play only half an hour ,they are approached by another pair of student who have booked the time slot on the same court after them.
They decide to play together (doubles) so that they can all play for an hour.
An excellent example of time management and optimisation and team spirit.
But how does TU Delft reward them ?
They snatch away their time slot !!
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