Your Favorite Just Lost! How do you cope?

[nehmeth]

Thankfully, I didn't have to "cope" today.

 

[Federberg]

Just a feeling of emptiness for a while, and then I buck up and continue watching the tennis As a Tottenham Hotspurs fan, I've had to learn how to cope with sporting loss. I'm an expert now!

 

[Front242]

In pure disgust, I usually turn it off not to see the opponent celebrating, and I sometimes watch some of the worst losses in the career of the guy who beat my guy.
Evil? Perhaps, but hey it's better than drinking it away.

Yeah, I often don't bother watching the trophy presentation but let's face it, most of the time it's just robotic boring speeches anyway. Although there are some rare exceptions. Always loved Li Na's speeches, for example.

 

[Kieran]

I'm kinda getting used to it. I go into matches nowadays hoping for the best but prepared for the worst. Until Rafa starts clicking, that's how it is. I'm fine this evening, had a lovely meal, watched a few vids on YouTube, chatting to the missus. In previous years, she'd take my blood pressure after a win and it'd be racing through the stars.

Rafa missing so much tennis means that I kinda lose my ardour for the sport during them months, I don't watch it with any measure of fury or intense hatred, and he's been slow in getting my pulse racing since he returned...

 

[Fefe26]

it's a game things like this happen. but, the better question is what does Rafa do now to imrprove his game to compete with novak? is it time for a new or additional coach?

 

[GameSetAndMath]

it's a game things like this happen. but, the better question is what does Rafa do now to imrprove his game to compete with novak? is it time for a new or additional coach?

That will never happen. Additional, may be.

But, in fairness, coaching is not the issue at the moment.

 

[britbox]

I'm kinda getting used to it. I go into matches nowadays hoping for the best but prepared for the worst. Until Rafa starts clicking, that's how it is. I'm fine this evening, had a lovely meal, watched a few vids on YouTube, chatting to the missus. In previous years, she'd take my blood pressure after a win and it'd be racing through the stars.

Rafa missing so much tennis means that I kinda lose my ardour for the sport during them months, I don't watch it with any measure of fury or intense hatred, and he's been slow in getting my pulse racing since he returned...

You should be fairly happy then considering Rafa hasn't missed any tennis in 2015 and we're already in June.

 

[Kieran]

I'm kinda getting used to it. I go into matches nowadays hoping for the best but prepared for the worst. Until Rafa starts clicking, that's how it is. I'm fine this evening, had a lovely meal, watched a few vids on YouTube, chatting to the missus. In previous years, she'd take my blood pressure after a win and it'd be racing through the stars.

Rafa missing so much tennis means that I kinda lose my ardour for the sport during them months, I don't watch it with any measure of fury or intense hatred, and he's been slow in getting my pulse racing since he returned...

You should be fairly happy then considering Rafa hasn't missed any tennis in 2015 and we're already in June.

He's missed enough over the last twelve months to leave me very unhappy, unfortunately. But hopefully this season he'll play a full schedule, for the first time since 2011...

 

[britbox]

Well, he's played 33 of the last 37 majors... look on the bright side... you could have been a Del Potro, Monfils, Hewitt fan.

 

[Kieran]

There's none of them are Rafa brother, I couldn't have been their fan. There's always a bright side when it isn't your player missing these events. Fact is, when Rafa skips large parts of the season, I watch tennis but without having too much vested interest in who wins. And he's slow getting back to his level, so I'm not surprised he loses matches any more...

 

[nehmeth]

Well, he's played 33 of the last 37 majors... look on the bright side... you could have been a Del Potro, Monfils, Hewitt fan.

.... or a Haas fan back in the day. :cover

 

[britbox]

^ Yeah, Tommy Haas should be underlined three-fold in this department. Personally, I also hark back to Safin.

 

[Kieran]

Safin and Haas have been adversely affected by injury too, which is nothing to do with Rafa, or Rafa fans, but of course their fans would feel the way I do about Rafa. By the way, Safin showed us what he was capable of doing when he was fully fit and motivated: them two birds in the stand at the Australian open final in 2002... :laydownlaughing

 

[DarthFed]

Unless it's Wimbledon 2008 or USO 2011 or any Green Bay Packer loss I usually get over it in a few hours.

 

[brokenshoelace]

Well, he's played 33 of the last 37 majors... look on the bright side... you could have been a Del Potro, Monfils, Hewitt fan.

It would have been unique to be one out of a combined dozen.

 

[Puppet Master]

Unless it's Wimbledon 2008 or USO 2011 or any Green Bay Packer loss I usually get over it in a few hours.

I think that Fed fans shouldn't ever even mention that match. I was close to tears after the fifth set.

 

[DarthFed]

^ For what reason. I thought you are a Rafa fan first?

 

[Puppet Master]

^ For what reason. I thought you are a Rafa fan first?

For the 30005848834304th time, I am a Fan of Federer as much as I am a fan of Nadal. See the "Who are your faves thread". But this frustrated me so much, I actually watched only a few matches from USO'11 to the beginning of the '12 clay season.

 

[DarthFed]

A real fan of them both? Interesting

 

[Puppet Master]

As I said, if you haven't already, check out my post on that thread. You will see that it is not so controversial at all. Oh and it's nothing similar to what Fiero does, jump from one sinking ship to another, because their reing ends. It makes sense that if a player is dominating everyone else he deserves some credit from him, but it's just not my thing though.