Most Disrepectful Moments in Tennis

[Chris Koziarz]

The Tomic vs Hewitt feud continues and new allegations emerge:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01...rnard-tomic-of-blackmail-and-threats/10724688
Of course Tomic is going to deny these latest allegations. So whom are we to believe 1 might ask? There is no question who is vastly more credible here. Just compare Tomic's body language I've pointed to above, with that of Hewitt revealed by the video in here:
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/n...hewitt/video/77bd3227c645312affa20d516b8bf1a6
Hewitt starts his speech with couple deep breaths, no doubt under stress and displays high emotional involvement throughout. Do I need to mention he sits straight and looks into the eyes of the interviewers while panting from stress? And, most importantly, he does not focus on deflecting Tomic's allegations repeated by the interviewers but rather on his efforts to help Tomic and how disappointed he is that his efforts failed. He maybe exaggerating with his interpretation of Tomic's actions as "blackmailing" and "threats to familly" but I think Hewitt's allegations are not baseless.
Kyrgios displays the most mature attitude here (would u expect it from a brat like him?) by saying it's disgusting to see such "shit" being talked over and over. When they insisted asking during his presser, whose side he is on , he cut short all questions. Well done Nick. But it's understandable Hewitt could not hold his story anymore, because his situation is far more difficult than that of Nick: Hewitt is deeply emotionally involved in the story. Interviewers should understand it and stop drilling their "shit" questions.

 

[brokenshoelace]

Can't remember which match because he's had so many of them, but in one famous Tomic tanking incidents he would say things like "too good" after his opponent hits a routine shot that goes for a winner because Tomic couldn't be bothered to move. It's one thing to tank, it's another to mock your opponent like that.

 

[Front242]

This was one of his most memorably stupid moments.

 

[Moxie]

Tomic is a colossal putz. Some of us used to feel a bit bad for him that he had no choice in his father, Colossal Putz, Sr. But he's 26 years old. Still whining and complaining that the tennis world mistreats him, with no actual indication of his dedication to the sport. At least Kyrgios has employed a sports psychologist.

 

[DarthFed]

I say Tarango episode at Wimbledon all those years ago. It was especially scandalous given the times.

 

[Fiero425]

No one's going to nominate the multiple embarrassments of Serena @ the USO after she was an established star & #! in the world?

 

[Moxie]

No one's going to nominate the multiple embarrassments of Serena @ the USO after she was an established star & #! in the world?

Likely because sometimes she was literally hard done by. That's why we have Hawk-eye.

 

[Chris Koziarz]

Tomic is a colossal putz. Some of us used to feel a bit bad for him that he had no choice in his father, Colossal Putz, Sr. But he's 26 years old. Still whining and complaining that the tennis world mistreats him, with no actual indication of his dedication to the sport. At least Kyrgios has employed a sports psychologist.

Kyrgios actually worked to contain most of his on court antics. Note that Kyrgios has problem with his on court behaviour only. Off court, he's a fantastic role model for kids, and everyone (not just kids) like him and want to have a hit with him. He also provides interesting commentary alongside Woodbridge/Courier in their banker. So Kyrgios is totally different (positive) personality as opposed to Tomic. And far far better human being. I think his emotional/social intelligence is better than average. So, it's not just sports psychologist that separates Kyrgios' character from Tomic's morose psychopathy. But said psychological therapy no doubt may have contributed to Kyrgios' improvement. He desperately needs to hire a trainer and learn how to play effectively so that his talent not be wasted. Said psychologist should make him achieve that goal next.

 

[Nadalfan2013]

IMO every time a player breaks a racket on the court, it's extremely disrespectful for our beautiful sport. Children are watching and such violence is unacceptable.

 

[Front242]

Yeah, real gentleman and sporting chaps go to take a dump before their opponent serves for the match and ban a good umpire for actually having the nerve to enforce the rules. Shock horror, imagine that, enforcing actual rules. He doesn't like having to abide by the rules so he bans him from all his matches for a considerable amount of time. How sporting and respectful that is. Go back to your imaginary happy world.

 

[Nadalfan2013]

Yeah, real gentleman and sporting chaps go to take a dump before their opponent serves for the match and ban a good umpire for actually having the nerve to enforce the rules. Shock horror, imagine that, enforcing actual rules. He doesn't like having to abide by the rules so he bans him from all his matches for a considerable amount of time. How sporting and respectful that is. Go back to your imaginary happy world.

That was the worst umpire in the history of the universe. That's like some employee or the announcer at the Grammys messing with Michael Jackson or Whitney Houston telling them that it's 6:01 pm you have should have done this or that by 6:00 pm (when tons of other nobody artists are allowed to bend the rules and none of the other employees or the grammy association saids anything). Of course that employee is going to get suspended.

Nadal is a legend, without him that referee would have been talking by himself in an empty stadium. So yeah, the referee is dumb. When you are a legend you are entitled to more than the average player especially if these same rules are almost never enforced to begin with. That referee was dumb. Djokovic and Nadal at the 2012 AO final were taking 30-40 seconds and the referee only made a couple of warnings when it was very exaggerated, not on each point. He knew his place and that these legends, the tour and how that rule is not 100% followed was bigger than making it about himself.

Have a nice day.

 

[Chris Koziarz]

How about disrespectful reporters. I've already hinted that disrespect while talking about Hewitt-Tomic saga. It seems they stropped theirs silly drills for a moment. But at the peak of the story, they salivated like silly Pavlov dogs. E.g. after Kyrgios lost his match, when the story was still fresh, I've heard Todd Woodbridge saying just before commercial break: "So sadly Berard first, and now Nick have lost. It will be interesting what Nick has to say at his press conference. We will watch it closely and let you know if he says something controversial". OMG, so Todd was actually expecting that Kyrgios will say something controversial. It's as unexpected as disgusting to hear from an otherwise very level headed tennis commentator, such silly salivating sensationalism. Fortunately, Kyrgios curbed his silly curiosity by replying "Oh, shut up! Can't you just stop it guys?" to all "controversial questions" about Tomic.

But Todd's disrespect was just a very minor faux pas compared to this one picked up by a paparazzi idiot:
https://www.news.com.au/sport/tenni...a/news-story/e46aa98eb8cb9704fc59c90c2d36b15e
I've always considered paparazzi reporters a disgusting bunch, even if their news are sometimes harmless. But this one goes way way over the line. In reporting world, it's as disrespectful to someone's privacy as Kyrgios disrespect of Wawrinka on the court (the incident we all know well, captured in the intro video, that makes me so cringe I cannot even talk about).

 

[Chris Koziarz]

If we want to broaden the subject and talk about the most disrespectful and silliest posts on tennis blogs, we have a prime contender in the post #31 above.
Everyone, please do not feed the troll and do not reply to the post #31. Thanks.

 

[Front242]

That was the worst umpire in the history of the universe. That's like some employee or the announcer at the Grammys messing with Michael Jackson or Whitney Houston telling them that it's 6:01 pm you have should have done this or that by 6:00 pm (when tons of other nobody artists are allowed to bend the rules and none of the other employees or the grammy association saids anything). Of course that employee is going to get suspended.

Nadal is a legend, without him that referee would have been talking by himself in an empty stadium. So yeah, the referee is dumb. When you are a legend you are entitled to more than the average player especially if these same rules are almost never enforced to begin with. That referee was dumb. Djokovic and Nadal at the 2012 AO final were taking 30-40 seconds and the referee only made a couple of warnings when it was very exaggerated, not on each point. He knew his place and that these legends, the tour and how that rule is not 100% followed was bigger than making it about himself.

Have a nice day.

Let's call a spade a spade, if the ATP actually had umpires with balls enough to enforce the actual rules a ton of players would have a lot less titles in their collections and Djokovic and Nadal who you just named there would be near the top of the list. They've both speeded things up since but they've had an absolute ton of matches where they got a ton of extra time due to gutless officials allowing them to get their breath and focus back. Forcing them to actually play like they should within the proper time limits would have been to their detriment but I'm not singling just those 2 out as there are tons of slow players but your supposed GOAT is high up the list and you know it. He even makes his opponent wait for the damn coin toss. I was at the 2010 WTF when he played Mardy Fish and Nadal ran off for a piss and there was a ton of booing and quite rightly so. Whatever it takes to win, right ?!

 

[Nadalfan2013]

Let's call a spade a spade, if the ATP actually had umpires with balls enough to enforce the actual rules a ton of players would have a lot less titles in their collections and Djokovic and Nadal who you just named there would be near the top of the list. They've both speeded things up since but they've had an absolute ton of matches where they got a ton of extra time due to gutless officials allowing them to get their breath and focus back. Forcing them to actually play like they should within the proper time limits would have been to their detriment but I'm not singling just those 2 out as there are tons of slow players but your supposed GOAT is high up the list and you know it. He even makes his opponent wait for the damn coin toss. I was at the 2010 WTF when he played Mardy Fish and Nadal ran off for a piss and there was a ton of booing and quite rightly so. Whatever it takes to win, right ?!

Lol Nadal won the first tournament that he played at the Canadian Open where the shot clock was installed. It doesn't faze him. He can win tons of huge titles with his eyes closed. Get a grip. He can adapt even if they make a 3 second rule. The only thing standing in his way is his health and injuries, nothing else.

 

[Front242]

Lol Nadal won the first tournament that he played at the Canadian Open where the shot clock was installed. It doesn't faze him. He can win tons of huge titles with his eyes closed. Get a grip. He can adapt even if they make a 3 second rule. The only thing standing in his way is his health and injuries, nothing else.

Sure, 'cos a healthy Nadal never loses right? What a load of shit.

 

[Nadalfan2013]

Sure, 'cos a healthy Nadal never loses right? What a load of shit.

Yes a healthy Nadal is unbeatable, everyone knows this at this point.


Now let's please get back to the topic at hand, which is about real disrespectful behavior such as Federer & Djokovic breaking rackets in front of innocent children.

 

[Moxie]

When Ray Moore, ex-tournament director of Indian Wells, said that “If I was a lady player, I’d go down every night on my knees and thank God that Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal were born because they have carried this sport. They really have.” Not to re-excite the equal pay fight, but since the guy was the tournament director of a co-ed event, it was very disrespectful. Cost him his job.

 

[Front242]

Yes a healthy Nadal is unbeatable, everyone knows this at this point.

You need serious help.

 

[GameSetAndMath]

When Ray Moore, ex-tournament director of Indian Wells, said that “If I was a lady player, I’d go down every night on my knees and thank God that Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal were born because they have carried this sport. They really have.” Not to re-excite the equal pay fight, but since the guy was the tournament director of a co-ed event, it was very disrespectful. Cost him his job.

It sure cost him job as it was not a politically correct thing to say in public, especially when you hold such a position. But, there is an element of truth in it.