So sick of people complaining about my rating

Every tournament, this seems to happen. My friend and I are the one seed for 3.5 mixed in the biggest tournament in our area. We had a first round bye and second round, played this couple from a rival club. The guy is a 3.0 and the girl is a 3.5. The guy is your classic muscly guy who tries to hit every ball as hard as he can. 1 out of every 10 shots goes in and the one that goes in is really good, but you just accept it because you know he’s missing most of them. The girl is a 3.5 mostly because of her singles play. She’s not a good doubles player.

We beat them 6-1, 6-0 in our match. At 4-0 in the second set, the guy started getting on me about how I hit too hard and that I should never hit that hard to a girl and how I should grow a pair of balls and play up. I told him that he’s more than welcome to hit as hard as he wants to my partner, and he said that’s just not how he wants to play. The last couple games, he complained about me being a sandbagger and how it’s ridiculous that I’m playing 3.5. We went back and forth until the match was over and they walked off.

It’s just so frustrating that stuff like this keeps happening. I admit, I’m a strong 3.5 who is very likely getting bumped to 4.0. But that’s because I’m at the club basically every day doing clinics and lessons and playing practice matches. I can’t help that USTA bumps us up only once a year. I’m doing my best to get bumped up “to my level”, but that requires dominating some tournaments at my level. On top of that, this guy isn’t a strong 3.0 to begin with. Of course he’s gonna lose to two strong 3.5s. He loses in 3.0. Not really looking for any advice or anything. Just wanted to vent to some people who might understand.

Also side note: how mysogonistic to tell me to hit it softer to his wife. It’s not like I was blasting balls at her at the net. I was literally “hitting hard” (not even my hardest) baseline to baseline