What's your experience with unfriendly players? Here in Germany, most players are very polite and patient with new players. But sometimes, there are players that refuse to play doubles with weaker partners or laugh at weaker opponents. Some players get angry when you tell them their errors when they think they are better players than you. Have you experienced something similiar? How do you react to rude opponents?
I think the first lesson you learn is "know your place". Second should be too look further and deeper why. The easiest answers are not the real ones.
We have a guy at our club who refuse to play with beginners or players below his level. The reason is pretty simple. He work shift work, he and his wife have a toddler. He can come every two weeks for one session. I got the luck to play him and with him (beeing below his level), that's the reason why I know this. A very friendly and supportive player, to me. Others will classify him as unfriendly. I can understand his circumstance.
I want also share the other side where beginner or weaker players were rude. This isn't a one-way street. A friend and I at same level played at university. We are pretty close to level. Same league. Hard to tell who is better. We asked weaker players to play us. They came on court. The first guy started to say to his partner very loudly and pointed with the finger "This guy is very very good" than he pointed at me and said "He is significant weaker. We should play to him". I thought "What the ****? Are you serious?" I proofed them wrong and went hard. After this game he said "Do you get a boner, when you smash at weaker players?". That such people deserve some jokes about them absolute understandable?
I also made the experience to crash rackets with beginners. A costly topic. That's always 150€ for a new racket. If it's a discontinued model I need to settle to a different model which is 300€. It's also no fun, when you get always games where you get partnered with the weakest player. You can really drink a cup of coffee until you can hit a shuttle except return of serve. That this isn't very enjoyable, understandable that this even out don't work?
Also a lot beginners or weaker players have this "we are hobby, we play for fun, not improvement"-joker they always pull when you try to communicate something to make the game more enjoyable or successful. If somebody isn't in the mood to learn the simple do's and don'ts of doubles great, but don't seek to play doubles with better players.
Even this week, I played with a female who can't clear. No joke, my backhand is far better than her forehand. She tried to give me tactical advices infront of all others on court and tried to lecture me after I made the winner of the rally. Totally understandable to make jokes about it or beeing unfriendly?
In terms of errors this is a very difficult topic. Everybody on court notice an error. And some errors which are errors in the eyes of a beginner are simply not errors as it seems. E.g. The lift comes short, I am the front court player, open the space to rotate with a beginner and the beginner don't come forward and follow or rotate. Especially lower levels prefer to play cross court as super clever tactic without knowing what this will mean. That I don't stay in the front don't mean that I made a positioning error, I simply run away, because I smell the crappy dropshot and don't want the kill in my face or try to help out in the rear court. If I want to explain the situation and get choked with "we are just hobby, just playing for fun" jokers, no wonder that I refuse to play.
Take this with a pinch of salt, I still don't refuse people if it is just one game, but if I get treaten like above, jokes, refusing, fun and unfriendly attitude have a source and has nothing to do with beeing arrogant, unfriendly or rude.
Last, but not not least I got partnered with a beginner a few years ago. While I told him the tactics of doubles and some basics, we started the game. As he was at the backcourt and played a dropshot, I went forward, his beginner friend (our opponents) played a very loose netshot. I stand infront of this guy, but my partner rushed forward ignoring me and hit the shuttle, my hand and the shaft of my racket with an alloy racket At the same time. My hand turned blue, the shaft was cracked, the shuttle went into the net and his only words "Ohoh" no excuse. I needed to quit playing and pause for 2 weeks. I have seen him a few times, was very unfriendly to him and refused always to play.