Tennis
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@rocky-rockbottom said in Tennis:
Maybe nick the rugby tenet, respect the kicker, respect the server. Once the ball's in play it's all on
What Rugby tenet? If I've paid to be in the crowd, I'm entitled to offer advice to kickers before they kick. They can deal with it, it's why we go to live sport
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Did anyone watch the Fett v Wozniacki match? It turned around on the back of the second of two disputed umpire calls against Wozniacki, regarding the timing of a player audibly challenging a call. She went from being passive to angry and bounced her racquet - but then played her best tennis from 1-5 and 15-40 down in the deciding set. She won 7-5.
Amongst other things, spectator quiet is a courtesy to players and officials, so that calls and challenges can be heard easily.
I hope the moron that disrupted the Kyrgios match gets convicted of public nuisance or similar. There are tens of thousands of dollars on the line for top players in each match like this.
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@rocky-rockbottom said in Tennis:
tenet, maxim, notion, i'm not here to argue semantics
Yeah, I think it's a NH thing that is tryign to be pushed here. If people stump up cash and attend a live rugby game, I'm happy for them to support their team, boo the other team, yell at the refs and generally have a good time.
Respect the kicker? Stuff that!
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@rocky-rockbottom said in Tennis:
tenet, maxim, notion, i'm not here to argue semantics
Yeah, I think it's a NH thing that is tryign to be pushed here. If people stump up cash and attend a live rugby game, I'm happy for them to support their team, boo the other team, yell at the refs and generally have a good time.
Respect the kicker? Stuff that!
yea, be quiet for the kicker, but yell like a screeching retard at lineout time etc dumbest shit ever.
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@mariner4life
you mean theLions players at lineout timehaha, yep -
@mariner4life said in Tennis:
@rocky-rockbottom said in Tennis:
tenet, maxim, notion, i'm not here to argue semantics
Yeah, I think it's a NH thing that is tryign to be pushed here. If people stump up cash and attend a live rugby game, I'm happy for them to support their team, boo the other team, yell at the refs and generally have a good time.
Respect the kicker? Stuff that!
yea, be quiet for the kicker, but yell like a screeching retard at lineout time etc dumbest shit ever.
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@mariner4life said in Tennis:
@rocky-rockbottom said in Tennis:
tenet, maxim, notion, i'm not here to argue semantics
Yeah, I think it's a NH thing that is tryign to be pushed here. If people stump up cash and attend a live rugby game, I'm happy for them to support their team, boo the other team, yell at the refs and generally have a good time.
Respect the kicker? Stuff that!
yea, be quiet for the kicker, but yell like a screeching retard at lineout time etc dumbest shit ever.
Yeah it does my nut whenever commentators start thrashing their chubby over how quiet the Munster crowd is during kicks.
But say nothing when they scream over every line out and and try to put off the catcher for every up and under. Its a distraction tactic just a different one.
Do what you want you payed your money, but keep the fuck off the field, and applaud politely if he makes the kick, don't be a fucking cry baby about it.
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If this is true then I hope ND burns and crashes
Warning, this is posted by Reason..
It's true. I don't know where it comes from but an article I read (sorry can't specify source because I've forgotten) that part of the contention is the fact that the gurls are paid the same. Could be wrong
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It's true. I don't know where it comes from but an article I read (sorry can't specify source because I've forgotten) that part of the contention is the fact that the gurls are paid the same. Could be wrong
If the argument was about pay equality (which I believe it originally was) then I'd be irritated too given they don't do the same amount of work (men play up to five sets). But in a professional arena, the organisers may feel that the women's tournament provides the same value.
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@antipodean said in Tennis:
It's true. I don't know where it comes from but an article I read (sorry can't specify source because I've forgotten) that part of the contention is the fact that the gurls are paid the same. Could be wrong
If the argument was about pay equality (which I believe it originally was) then I'd be irritated too given they don't do the same amount of work (men play up to five sets). But in a professional arena, the organisers may feel that the women's tournament provides the same value.
Yeah, it's a tricky one because the amount of sets played is not the only metric. I don't know whether women's tennis is on a marketability par with men's tennis, but it is certainly less clear than say golf or other major sports
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@antipodean said in Tennis:
If the argument was about pay equality (which I believe it originally was) then I'd be irritated too given they don't do the same amount of work (men play up to five sets). But in a professional arena, the organisers may feel that the women's tournament provides the same value.
I think they'd get laughed out of "court" on the first one. That article says Federer has collected nearly a billion dollars - which has virtually zero to do with the "amount of work" he's put in. On the basis of "work done" male tennis players are vastly overpaid compared to almost every segment of society except female tennis players, golfers and footballers of several varieties.
On the second one, aside from the big match-ups, I'd generally rather watch women's tennis.
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@rocky-rockbottom said in Tennis:
come to think of it why is it so stupidly quiet at the tennis? another posh holdover from the empire nonsense. fuck it, bark your nuts off during points, have a soccer sing-a-long, some chanting, turn it into a roaring atmospheric cauldron, might even exhort the players on to greater deeds. It's not snooker. The players are just running around outside smashing a ball as hard as they can, not parsing cock valves to aortas in open heart surgery.
although this brilliant idea might fall apart in quietish lulls between the noise when someone abruptly screams "CUUUNT!" during the service action and the poor bastard goes to pieces. Maybe nick the rugby tenet, respect the kicker, respect the server. Once the ball's in play it's all on
I was listening to Australian Open Radio the other day, even the commentators were saying how archaic it was to be so quiet.
They noted that there was an unsanctioned tournament in the US, where you can actually make as much noise as you want. I thought it was a Billie Jean King one, but I can't find any reference to it online. Apparently the players get used to it quickly. Much like that 'respect the kicker' bollocks in the Northern Hemisphere.
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@chris-b I reckon if he turns his behaviour around it won't take long for him to win the public over. Despite all his faults there seems to be a charismatic side to him.
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@crazy-horse The more forgiving members of the public. Will take him a long time to win me over.
Let's see how he goes on sustaining this "new leaf".
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@rocky-rockbottom Can serve like a Mofo, though.
I guess there's a bit of Goran Ivanisovic about him - huge serve that others struggle to break, but against the best players he struggles to break them. So - plenty of tiebreakers - I think three vs Tsonga and three vs Dimitrov.
p.s. I hear he wasn't thrilled about his racquet strings!
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Hve you guys never seen tennis from the Foro Italico. Its a bear pit. The Rome crowd go ape shit - even during the serves.
It may have changed since I used to watch it as currently there's really no home contenders but back in the day despite complaints every top player used to compete - noise and crowd behaviour notwithstanding
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