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I'd say it's both: it is poor sportsmanship to cheer/cho missed serves (IMHO, at least if it comes from your opponent, parents and spectators are not subject to the same rules, I suspect). But - you must develop resistance/mental toughness against this behavior, or you will be at serious disadvantage.
I know it originally annoyed me a lot when opponent loudly said 'Thank you' after I botch the serve, so I'm kind of with Lermanator on this, but I also knew I had to learn to ignore it, because what else you can do - umpire is unlikely to call it, and, by the way, we don't have umpires anyway, so you are back to square one, but now they are in your head . I think I'm better at ignoring this now...
The opponent saying "thank you" is one of those annoying traits people pick up in club play, but I can be just as irritated by apologies as I know they are ultimately insincere given the sports rules, and many opponents apologize for my serve misses etc.. And most of the cheering does come from spectators with very few exceptions.
The truth is I have lost many matches from being cheered against while I played an opponent on foreign club turf, sometimes even on home club turf if they had some clueless guy cheering who didn't realize it was a club match and wanted me to lose to someone from his own ethnic group. But over time, I realized that it was a zero sum game, you can't be too picky about how your opponent wins points since you can't win points without him losing them and vice versa.
I like good sportsmanship sure, but it's a zero sum game. When you lose, your opponent wins, and this is true for every point of the game. So it's pretty reasonable for them to celebrate your bad serve misses as it takes them one step closer to their goal. And this is as mental a sport as any out there, anything that has you playing less than 95% puts your opponent at a significant advantage if you are both closely matched up.
I mean, look at the coaches clapping from their seats during matches like LGL and Rosskopf, it's just gone to another level now.
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