Nadal's Aussie open victory hurts!

[Raven_Rayes]

I don't think I'll be able to watch tennis again.

 

[pallibathani]

13 hours ago, Raven_Rayes said:

I don't think I'll be able to watch tennis again.

 

namasthe bruh 

[tennisluvrredux]

13 hours ago, Raven_Rayes said:

I don't think I'll be able to watch tennis again.

 

Tennis has become too over analyzed baa, time to move on to a new sport. 

I am thinking of getting into pickleball now

[r2d2]

20 minutes ago, tennisluvrredux said:

I am thinking of getting into pickleball now

ayyo.. mari kotha id ready na?

jokes apart.. it is a fun game.. maybe I will take it up when the legs start hurting.. right now I hate the game & the players....as they are  converting  the Tennis Courts at most public places..

[tennisluvrredux]

7 minutes ago, r2d2 said:

ayyo.. mari kotha id ready na?

jokes apart.. it is a fun game.. maybe I will take it up when the legs start hurting.. right now I hate the game & the players....as they are  converting  the Tennis Courts at most public places..

Yeah agreed

[summer27]

1 hour ago, tennisluvrredux said:

Tennis has become too over analyzed baa, time to move on to a new sport. 

I am thinking of getting into pickleball now

US lo thella suburb batch antha eppudo moved to pickleball. San Diego lo maa oorlu pickleball play area undi, it has around 8 courts..asalu eppuduu busy, antha thellolle.. 

[Hitman]

This is individual sport . విచారంచవలసిన విషయమ్ ఎమిటి అంతె no individual has the endurance levels of these top 3 players. Isn’t it the greatness of these top players? 

[Raven_Rayes]

8 hours ago, tennisluvrredux said:

Tennis has become too over analyzed baa, time to move on to a new sport. 

I am thinking of getting into pickleball now

I still get the greatest enjoyment playing tennis. I hope I can keep playing as long as possible

Pickleball looks sad. 

[Raven_Rayes]

6 hours ago, Hitman said:

This is individual sport . విచారంచవలసిన విషయమ్ ఎమిటి అంతె no individual has the endurance levels of these top 3 players. Isn’t it the greatness of these top players? 

I have nothing against Nadal. I just don't like his game. 

I've seen him far too long playing defensively that yesterday's match seems like he was trying to channel his inner Federer and Djokovic

[Raven_Rayes]

8 hours ago, tennisluvrredux said:

Tennis has become too over analyzed baa, time to move on to a new sport. 

I am thinking of getting into pickleball now

I used to be a regular poster on menstennisforums, until 2010. After that I switched off. I had tennistv subscription until 2014, I wouldn't miss even a single masters game. 

Now I don't even watch grandslam finals. 

For some reason I like Medvedev personality. So I watched for him. 

[hunkyfunky2]

2 minutes ago, Raven_Rayes said:

I used to be a regular poster on menstennisforums, until 2010. After that I switched off. I had tennistv subscription until 2014, I wouldn't miss even a single masters game. 

Now I don't even watch grandslam finals. 

For some reason I like Medvedev personality. So I watched for him. 

Same here..

Same 3 men dominated too long and competition in women tennis is laughable...every 3 months we have a new number 1. Can barely play 2 sets .

 

Nadal is not supposed to do well except for clay , he came a long way ...

Monotonous defensive play

 

[tennisluvrredux]

1 hour ago, Raven_Rayes said:

I still get the greatest enjoyment playing tennis. I hope I can keep playing as long as possible

Pickleball looks sad. 

I have been playing really serious table tennis after a neck injury 6 months ago since I couldn't play tennis.

Now am addicted to table tennis and can't stop, I have been able to turn the clock back to those days 2 decades ago when I used to play for the University team so don't want to stop it now. Still miss tennis though although I think I can play it again now. 

[migilindhi151]

On 1/30/2022 at 9:17 PM, Raven_Rayes said:

I don't think I'll be able to watch tennis again.

 

Peeda vadhilindhi .... Nadal 2 gold in Olympics, career double slam .. no one can break this record atleast for another 20 years ... Pundu meedha kaaram challadam antey idhey ... 😂 😂

[Raven_Rayes]

21 hours ago, migilindhi151 said:

Peeda vadhilindhi .... Nadal 2 gold in Olympics, career double slam .. no one can break this record atleast for another 20 years ... Pundu meedha kaaram challadam antey idhey ... 😂 😂

I hope no one comes close to Nadal's achievements, and we can move past this fcuking GOAT debates.

did you listen to Medvedev's interview post match.. He captured my sentiment perfectly. The narrative around Big 3 or whatever it is disgusting. I was a Federer fan until they started parading him as the GOAT. The conversation got worse and worse as two other joined these silly debates.

Suddenly its only about these 3 people in the entire ATP tour. Almost all conversations revolved around them. Players who were coming up being booed if they beat these players. Novak is an exception, since he has equal amount of haters. So I like Novak little bit more.

Medvedev didn't mention this, but said that he no longer carries any passion for tennis, and is just gonna play to provide for his family. He actually meant that the entire ecosystem is fcuked up, when people are cheering his double faults. Reminding him that he doesn't belong there. That, when he's easily the best hard court player in the world right now.

I watch tennis to see a variety of players showcase their skill. Sure Nadal is extremely skillful at what he does, but he is not singularly skillful enough to represent the entirety of tennis styles. Not him, not the Big 3 put together. They made tennis unwatchable for me in the last decade.

I hope they retire soon, and we get done with this bs GOAT debates for the next decade. But I don't doubt that the media will catch someone else and try to project him as the potential GOAT. Because that's the only way they can sell the game today. Promote someone as a superstar.

that's why I'm done with tennis.

[Raven_Rayes]

21 hours ago, migilindhi151 said:

Peeda vadhilindhi .... Nadal 2 gold in Olympics, career double slam .. no one can break this record atleast for another 20 years ... Pundu meedha kaaram challadam antey idhey ... 😂 😂

If you understand how tennis players are promoted and funded, you'll understand what I'm saying.

As great as the Big 3 were, their continued success was a result of mixture of investment from their govt (in the millions) at the start of their career (include Murray too in this), and then the wealth gap between them and the rest of the tour, thanks to the continuous media circus about them being once in a century types of players.

This is going to continue. In most sports when a team was allowed to buy the best players to play for them, they end up winning all the time. For eg. Toronto Maple Leafs in NHL. And then the league decides to act on it, decides to make the tournament more competitive and caps the player salaries. Toronto didn't win a single stanley cup after that.

Tennis authorities are not even talking about the player's winning gap. The perverse media attention and subsequent money for the Big 3. They are not trying to limit out of court earnings of the Big 3. So its obvious they are going to allow the media to pick some other golden boy to spin their narrative around, once these Big 3 retire.