Tennis "Pet Peeves"

[Murat Baslamisli]

Mary Carillo

 

[mrzz]

You know what I hate in tennis? Those guys in tennis boards that keep disagreeing with everyone... boy, they're such haters.

 

[El Dude]

My pet peeve: tennis fans

 

[El Dude]

LOL, I didn't see your post, @mrzz. Great minds think alike, I guess.

 

[Horsa]

My pet peeve: tennis fans

That's a bit hypocritical when you're 1 yourself. Lol.

 

[mrzz]

That's a bit hypocritical when you're 1 yourself. Lol.

The ability to laugh at oneself is a virtue, my friend.

 

[Horsa]

The ability to laugh at oneself is a virtue, my friend.

Tell me about it, pal.

 

[Moxie]

I don't mind grunting. Breath work in the diaphragm is well-know to help coordinate and facilitate exertion. And a woman's pitch will be higher. One of my pet peeves is people talking about the "shrieking" in the WTA.

Another is people who hate Rafael Nadal for every atom of his existence. (And Murray, to the lesser extent that's true.) That's just really down to sour grapes.

I can't stand the doping inferences on forums. Especially where people can't take their own 'medicine' and apply their random conspiracy theories uniformly.

 

[britbox]

I don't mind grunting. Breath work in the diaphragm is well-know to help coordinate and facilitate exertion. And a woman's pitch will be higher. One of my pet peeves is people talking about the "shrieking" in the WTA.

Another is people who hate Rafael Nadal for every atom of his existence. (And Murray, to the lesser extent that's true.) That's just really down to sour grapes.

I can't stand the doping inferences on forums. Especially where people can't take their own 'medicine' and apply their random conspiracy theories uniformly.

What have you been smoking?

 

[mrzz]

I give a break to players who grunt on decisive moments based on a simple observation about myself. I normally don't grunt while playing, but sometimes, if the effort level gets too high, I start grunting. Nothing too loud, but surely the opponent can hear it. It is simply and exclusively down the effort, and it only happens when I hit my very last gear. I reckon something similar might happen to other people so maybe is not gamesmanship after all.

 

[Moxie]

What have you been smoking?

This is an opinion thread. What is your problem with mine, mate?

 

[britbox]

This is an opinion thread. What is your problem with mine, mate?

Don't worry - it was joke about drug inferences....

 

[Moxie]

Don't worry - it was joke about drug inferences....

Too arcane. That's not the kinda drugs we think about. Good try, though.

 

[Horsa]

I don't mind grunting. Breath work in the diaphragm is well-know to help coordinate and facilitate exertion. And a woman's pitch will be higher.

Maybe so but diaphragmatic breathing doesn't necessarily have to be noisy. All professional singers for example do a lot of diaphragmatic breathing sometimes through the nose while singing as well as through the mouth before singing & during instrumental breaks. Their diaphragmatic breaths do not sound 1/2 as bad as tennis players grunts. In fact the diaphragmatic breaths are silent. The only sound you hear is the melodious music coming through their mouths.

 

[Busted]

My biggest pet peeve is...Rafael Nadal

Took the words right off my finger tips...

1. Picking at the shorts 3 times before every point

2. 50 ticks to go through before every point

3. Gotta have the water bottles just so

4. Goes over the time allotment between points as if he doesn't know there's a time limit and then gets pissy when the umpire dings him on it...and then gets the umpire banned from calling his matches because he says the umpire is biased against him. Waving at Carlos Bernades...

5. The uppercut fist pump...soooooooo Jimmy Connors...

...I could go on and on...

My other tennis pet peeves -

1. Every women's match is exactly the same. Doesn't even matter who's playing..

2. Players who don't come to the net

3. Players who can't back up a big win

4. Christ Evert, Pam Shriver, Boris Becker, Justin Gimelstob and Cliff Drysdale in the commentary booth. 'Nuf said...

 

[Busted]

Pet peeve: Juan Martin del Potro's and John Isner's constant on court moping and lolly-gagging. They are the slowest players on planet earth. God forbid they ever play each other!

You know...this didn't used to bother me about DelPo until I saw him play Thiem at the US Open and then last week against Khachanov at the AO. Dude was meandering around between points like he was on his way to a siesta. Good gravy. It was annoying to watch so I can only imagine how annoying it is when you're on the other side of the net. I do think Djokovic and Nadal can be slower than DelPo...but not by much...

 

[mrzz]

Filming freaking celebrities on the stands/boxes. One time, ok, some actor or whatever is there, fine, I can live with that. From the second time on... it gives me secondhand embarrassment.

(if you are an alien and knows what I am talking about, please notice that I am an adopted human).