Sportsmanship award

[brokenshoelace]

Just FYI, the Google search "Nadal swears at ball boy" provides no relevant results. I'm sure this incident Darth is referring to could in NO WAY be inaccurate (not saying he's lying, but perhaps Nadal wasn't quite directing this at a ball boy) since we know there would have been a $hit storm if this were true.

But yeah, Nadal did this a few years ago because people "talked about it on the forums," so this means Novak by no means acted like a little bitch.

 

[brokenshoelace]

What I'd like to see is at least ONE of these prima donnas thanking a ball/towell kid...just once.

They do. I've seen Nadal and Djokovic do it (when Nadal was taking time off from yelling "puta" at them).

Regardless, you're right, the tennis culture with regards to ball boys is quite sad. Players need a ball boy to remove the plastic off a new racket? I love tennis as a sport, but I despise its culture.

 

[Johnsteinbeck]

i think we need some positive player-ball kid interaction here. even if it's wta...