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are all six reasons doping
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Aug 30, 2018 21:21
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Puckish Rogue posted:I loving hate tennis. It's probably fine for the health of the sport of tennis that all the good players are 58 years old. Great sport
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Sep 4, 2018 16:52
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Serena is a dope fraud.
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Sep 9, 2018 13:38
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Jack's Flow posted:Osaka was better and on her way to winning anyway. Serena is still awesome and the GOAT. On her being perceived as some sort of classless bully: people are celebrating John McEnroe, „such a character!“, to this day, a guy who abused umpires and linesmen too many times to count. What happened yesterday absolutely had to do with her being a woman talking poo poo to the ref. But a piece like the one by Sally Jenkins in the Washington Post goes too far when she concludes that we will never know whether or not Osaka could have won without the incident. I strongly disagree with that. People loving hated McEnroe, everything like that mellows after retirement. I can't believe all the takes about Serena Williams being treated badly by the media. I can't think of any other tennis player except maybe Federer who constantly gets more effusive coverage.
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Sep 9, 2018 14:01
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fancyclown posted:Roger Federer is a saint! Seriously though, I love Roger Federer. I regret to say that Roger Federer, too, is a dope fraud.
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Sep 9, 2018 14:12
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Seems selfish for Serena to have melted down in a game she was losing so that all the stories this morning were about her being hard done by. Very rude to her opponent.
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Sep 9, 2018 14:48
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Puckish Rogue posted:I hope Serena is okay after she jawed off like a loving bear trap before the evil union that rules tennis, out of pure venom and sexism, punished Serena in a game she was losing anyway because motherhood makes you weak. The extremely racist WTA blatantly punished Serena Williams in favor of *checks* Naomi Osaka
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Sep 9, 2018 17:43
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Josh Lyman posted:I feel like I'm in crazytown with the Washington Post and USA Today columns. The USA Today columnist is especially bad: "Ramos penalized Williams for an absurd infraction involving her coach “coaching,” which for reasons no one can really understand, is somehow not allowed in tennis. Just imagine the Golden State Warriors being penalized for Coach Steve Kerr daring to coach his team during a game." Tennis coverage is terrible because 90% of people who follow/write about the sport don't actually pay attention to anything that isn't at least a Grand Slam semi-final. Also nobody bothers to ask why an extremely athletic sport is dominated by people who are in their mid-30s, because that would be inconvenient.
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Sep 9, 2018 17:56
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I love all the "that rule is stupid" takes. I bet these are the same people who watch soccer once and constantly say the offside rule is dumb.
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Sep 9, 2018 17:59
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Veskit posted:The coaching violation was ridiculous and the ump should have made an attempt to deescalate before throwing a game violation. Literally all sports are given this respect and most men in tennis. Also there's no sport outside of fighting that someone coul d give the opponent a point like that so it's even crazier. Lol why. How that would be fair to Osaka who didn't have a rolling meltdown and call the umpire a thief. Because Serena is more famous?
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Sep 9, 2018 18:13
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Veskit posted:Holy poo poo do you guys not understand what I mean by it's an enforcement issue? Please explain why a referee is responsible for "de-escalating" a player yelling at them without giving them a penalty. Also explain why this is at all fair to the player who isn't breaking the rules.
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Sep 9, 2018 18:20
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Like holy poo poo if you called a soccer ref a thief and a liar because you didn't like a free kick call, you'd get at least a yellow and very likely a straight red and a big rear end fine from your league. He is not responsible for explaining his actions or "de-escalating".
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Sep 9, 2018 18:21
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LionArcher posted:They don’t because they are Sexist trump voters. CharlieFoxtrot posted:There is always a level of discretion when it comes to refereeing and people who believe there is one absolute correct way to approach every situation probably believe the poo poo that Kavanaugh spewed this week Great takes. You guys could write tennis articles for the press. All you need to do is promise never to watch a single match that isn't in a Grand Slam tournament and promise to never learn anything about any player who isn't Serena Williams or one of the big four men's players.
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Sep 9, 2018 18:26
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Veskit posted:If it was a world cup match the ref would be irresponsible not to holy poo poo we've gone over this. Someone literally scored on a penalty in the last World Cup Final lmao
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Sep 9, 2018 18:57
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a penalty in soccer which has happened in multiple finals, and frequently for borderline calls, is significantly worse than getting a game penalty in tennis, even in a 3-set match lol.
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Sep 9, 2018 19:00
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LionArcher posted:It’s fun seeing how many racist people in here think they know what they are talking about while doubling down and continue to be racist while plenty of people of color and actual sports experts explain why it was racism and bad calls. Nobody in the general press knows jack poo poo about tennis.
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Sep 9, 2018 20:48
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If tennis really wanted to be racist they could try investigating why Serena Williams is dominating a highly athletic sport at the age of like 69.
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Sep 9, 2018 20:52
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I hope good honest boy DelPo beats the Dope Fiend.
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Sep 9, 2018 21:28
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Cornflakes posted:wish i was in the friends of delpo party box rn they'll be eschewing gluten and firing up the centrifuges in Belgrade tonight
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Sep 9, 2018 22:22
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Poor match. Let's watch some 90s Tour Championship matches instead imo.
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Sep 9, 2018 22:44
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Puckish Rogue posted:I miss Jim Courier. Michael Chang, mmm what a player.
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Sep 9, 2018 22:49
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We all hate Ivan Lendl
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Sep 9, 2018 22:50
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Puckish Rogue posted:Like cricket and rugby, the good folks of tennis would never dope. It would go against the good colonial spirit of the game.
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Sep 9, 2018 23:30
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PostNouveau posted:So there's some, like, circumstantial evidence that Djokovic is juicing then? He is 69 years old and winning Grand Slams
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Sep 10, 2018 00:55
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Puckish Rogue posted:Here's my list of true rear end sports facts: Agreed. Agreed except my good lad Kei. Agreed. Agreed. Agreed. Agreed the Serbian government is funding his doping program for sure. Almost as bad as Spain.
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Sep 10, 2018 01:02
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PostNouveau posted:He's 31 though? Which is the age Pete Sampras and Jimmy Connors won the U.S. Open, unless those two were doping too? Americans don't dope except Serena which is why they never win anything anymore.
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runoverbobby posted:Even if you agree with the WTA and the double-standard assertion, I don’t understand why anyone would ultimately empathize with Serena here. Surely the solution is to penalize more men for abusing umpires, rather than to allow everyone to abuse umpires? Unless you enjoy watching unprofessional petulant tantrums because you somehow think it shows “fire” or “strength”. The umpires shouldn’t need to tolerate harassment at work. people frequently get dinged for yelling at umpires, it's just rare for someone to do it for their third violation of the match because that would be dumb to do
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