Why is tennis such a mentally torturous sport?
No matter what physical skills, any weak-willed individual will be eaten alive by tennis. Why? The individual aspect?
>>66345414
>The individual aspect?
yup
it's all on you
>>66345441
That and not being able to mentally/physically "take a point off" so to speak? Just constant increasing pressure?
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Nadal I know you're reading this.
You're a sore loser and no one actually likes you. Eat shit at Miami Open.
Do you speak Spanish? Gaudio was GOAT at being mad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-bYU6yZ-mw
>>66345502
this was the only time he ever smashed a racket
>>66345414
because tennis is a meme sport for pussies
>>66345502
>watch video
>people were actually booing Fedelel
I was surprised tbqhfam
Murray is an uncharistmatic spoilt brat who hates the country that made him wealthy. Of course he is mentally weak
At least it still has that 1on1 gladiator feel. Players can only blame themself.
>>66346718
False, he did it many times in his younger days.
>>66346735
Miami is full of Spanish losers that like Nadull.
>>66346718
He did smash some rackets in the early 00s, but he changed.
>>66346707
BASED
one of the best backhands as well
>>66348993
even when he smashes a racquet he still manages to look graceful
I fucking hate Andy Murray
I have nothing else to contribute to this thread
Tennis is only sport were watching the women some are easy as good as men and u can also have a cheeky wank
>>66349271
love a cheeky wank during Giorgi's matches
Heather watson currently BTFOing some Czech bird with delicious thighs and arse
>>66349271
Is this English you're speaking?
LOL CETKOVSKA JUST GAVE WATSON A POINT
>>66345414
I remember hearing one of the old GOATs (can't remember if Borg or Agassi) saying that tennis is like a 90% mental sport.
>>66349445
well he was talking utter bollocks, it's 90% talent
played tennis as a kid / teenager and the best of our group (made top-100 oslt) was the angriest, always shouting and throwing his racket about
for me it was just depressing to go through a long game when you know you're losing, fuck that
>>66349427
It's called tanking
This Watson match is hilarious 6 - 1 first set now gonna be 6 - 0
>>66349455
>90% talent
No one is born knowing how to play tennis. To literally be good at this sport, you have to have started at a really early age.
>>66349462
This is usually the norm in women's matches.
>>66349475
no m8, you have to have the talent for it, I can;t become a world class tennis player just by practicing a lot, I need to have the inborn 'gift' for it like with any sport
>>66349468
Fucking love halep even now here tatties r smaller
>>66349462
>>66349475
and the cheeky bitches have the temerity to want paying the same as men for providing a vastly inferior product
>>66349555
Nah most games r good this bitch was in on special ranking thought and always has injuries
>>66349495
That's pure bullshit. You can't become a pro if you never played before you were a teen. Talent alone isn't enough, and it sure isn't 90% of being good at the game.
Anyone watching the Miami scrubs?
>>66349445
I think its agreed that the top 50 all have the shots available to them, the next step is by being mentally strong.
Murray was able to survive the worst ever Scottish massacre to become one of the world's best. Rafa survived steroid abuse. Federer survived the most boring country in the world. Djokovic survived genocide (probably, he's from that sort of place)
>>66349594
if even I had played before I was a teen I would never be a pro
This is some heavy philosophical shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gQ2NhteF44
>>66349457
That's one big thing, there's no clock. You have to play each point until you win or lose, which really grinds you mentally.
I hate having to close out matches when I'm ahead instead of just running out the clock, I always choke...
>>66351491
>that shit eating grin
>>66346707
>atende gaston el telefono
everytime
>>66352069
Translate for us civilized people
Can you imagine match point? I can't think of any other sport that has an aspect as mentally unforgiving as a match point.
Imagine you're in a fifth set tiebreak, and your opponent has a match point. If you fuck up that shot and put it into the net, that's it. I can imagine tennis players must have to really train themselves to not think about bad points, otherwise they'd sit up at night mentally torturing themselves thinking about it.
Tennis is like boxing but without the sweet bliss of memory annihilation
>>66346686
t. Federeddit
I played high school tennis in burning hot las vegas, I was also the top rated player under 13 as well. I stopped practicing as seriously in high school because I was kinda content just being one of the best on the team, instead of trying to beat the best people in the state.
The game is an absolute grind though, especially when played in the heat. In a 2 set match, the 2nd set is really just a war of attrition. At that point energy is more important than skill, and whoever can put more effort into each individual point will win. It's grueling though, its rough on all of your joints simultaneously and when you're so tired you're basically at a breaking point, you still have points to play and you can't give up the game.
>>66352172
I play tennis and for me it's more stressful to be UP a match point rather than DOWN a match point.
I get really tight when I'm winning.
>>66352317
Yes indeed. It is physically and mentally demanding. I had two 3.5 hour matches, both in the summer.
Won one of them 6-7 7-5 7-5. I was down 0-5 in BOTH of the last two sets and came back, saving tons of match points.
Lost the other one 6-7 7-5 6-7. I had match point at the end but legs cramped and after that I couldn't really move and lost in the TB. Barely made it home, full body cramps. That was the day I learned that just water/gatorade was not enough - needed to add sodium supplements.
>>66351465
This was fucking great. Actually understanding him makes it even better, believe me.
>>66345414
man, you have no idea. I cannot begin to imagine what it must be like to play something like a Grand Slam. Imagine being at the match point and THEN fucking it up. How do you not kill yourself at that point?
Great fucking sport 2bh
>>66352513
He basically had a midlife crisis on a changeover.
>>66352555
One of the biggest chokes of all time was Gaudio-Coria in the RG 2004. Coria was the better player and was dominating and was way ahead, but choked on a bunch of match points and then choked the match away. It was really sad. Coria's career never recovered - it broke his mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHiSIb_HCEg
>>66352558
Yeah, but there's some kind of meditation in it. He states facts and is therefore able to overcome the situation. Being able to verbalize his issues made it possible.
>>66345414
>Why is tennis such a mentally torturous sport?
Because that nigger shits is so boring I feel like killing myself watching it.
>>>/asp/ not an sport
>>66352598
0-6, 3-6, 6-4, 6-1, 8-6
Coria was up 6-0 6-3 4-3 (40-0) when he choked
>>66352598
>>66352634
jesus fucking christ, that was painful to watch. i could feel the agony through the screen
>>66352115
he got a phonecall in a middle of his match (his phone wasnt muted), and the ringtone was himself saying "come on gaston, pick up the phone"
>>66347149
t. fat kunt
>>66352555
Remember that US Open 2011 semifinal? Federer having 2 match points against Djokovic in the fifth at 5-3, the crowd absolutely on Federer's side, and then Djokovic smiles, gives a nod as if to say "I got this" and then doing what was probably the best return in the history of tennis, and then went on to break him, win the semifinal and win in the finals against Rafa.
Imagine how both players must feel in those situations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OYcZSlKD48
>>66352737
LOL
>>66354510
Look Serbbro. I know you gotta side with your boy, but that's not a true telling of the situation.
Djokovic got LUCKY shots, which he himself admitted. He said he closed his eyes and swung because he already figured he'd lost. The smirk was his passive aggressive bullshit against the crowd that he always pulls. "Oh, you're cheering against me, how cute." Then he says to a fan "go fuck your mother" in Serbian but never gets penalties because the umpires can't understand him.
Djokovic is a passive aggressive bitch, in the female sense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvzFcthSbBE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W3bB7-adxM
why didn't one of them just give up
>>66354844
>why didn't one of them just give up
Because neither one of them was Djokovic.
>>66352609
Good point. Maybe I'll try it.
>>66348993
That's when he got into a racket smashing contest with Safin, he was easily influenced
>>66354996
WTA pushfest. Funny thing is, Woz won that match. Zvonareva is one of the biggets chokers/nutjobs in the world.
Wanna see some more great Woz tennis?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEvq8ybeyzg
Although to be fair, cramps are no joke and when they hit you like that it's pretty much the worst thing ever.
>>66345414
> Why is tennis such a mentally torturous sport?
Because there's no clock. It ain't over, 'til it's over. I think you could say the same about baseball.
>>66355069
True. I guess the big difference is that baseball isn't individual.
But yeah, the lack of clock can be grueling.
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