Annoying Habits?

Sudacafan

Bionic Poster
Would be great if the slow server could notify the receiving player when to expect a serve that lands in! :cool:
Like this?

Serve Notification:
You will be receiving a serve ETA 3:45 PM EDST. If fault, ETA can occur five minutes later. In case of double fault, a new notification will be issued.
 

mike danny

Bionic Poster
ALL PLAYERS sifting through 4 balls before deciding which 2 to serve with. Along the same lines, players who then let the two discarded balls roll back, making the ball kids bend down unnecessarily (Thiem, along with a few others, is always kind enough to bounce the balls back to the ballkids.)
I always wondered why do they pick 3-4 balls only to drop 1-2 afterwards.
 

The Joker

Rookie
FAA and Kevin Anderson- cannot stand watching them serve with those ridiculous pauses mid-motion.
Any player (Sonego, sometimes Schwartzman) who grunts AFTER, and much long after they make contact with the ball.
Cilic's frenetic ball bouncing and back leg shaking makes me anxious.
Tsitsipas seems to have an annoying habit of framing shots; maybe this is just me but it seems that he frames way more than the rest of the Tour.

Habit I find entertaining: Brits shouting at their box. Murray is the founder of this club, Dan Evans the current president. Norrie did some at Wimbledon this year as well.
 

initialize

Hall of Fame
Djokovic's little angry "nostril flair" he does a lot. Anyone else know what I mean?

Brooksby's whiney "c'mon!" and his orgasm face whenever he does his pathetic serve

Anyone who tries to copy Federer by blowing on their racket hand whenever they hit a winner. Why do players blow on their hand? Only Fed looks cool doing it
 

Autodidactic player

Professional
How about almost all players constantly whining about crowd noise or someone moving during the point. These are professional athletes. They should be able to keep their concentration and focus through minor disruptions. If basketball and football players, even those that are not professional, can focus through raucous crowd noise and overt attempts to distract them (like screaming and waiving hands during free throws) then professional tennis players should be able to play when someone 40 rows up gets up to go to the toilet!
 

Sudacafan

Bionic Poster
Annoying habits?
Don't you know that user around here whose second name is habit?
Manoman lolololol, and emojis galore.
 

khingdheano

New User
When players hit a winner (or even just get the point) and they immediately spin around to look toward their box with a look like "I killed that one, didn't I!!" Accompanied by the requisite clenched fist, of course. A lot of players do it, but Halep and Sinner immediately come to mind.
 

initialize

Hall of Fame
Let us know how old you are without saying how old you are.
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Sudacafan

Bionic Poster
When players hit a winner (or even just get the point) and they immediately spin around to look toward their box with a look like "I killed that one, didn't I!!" Accompanied by the requisite clenched fist, of course. A lot of players do it, but Halep and Sinner immediately come to mind.
Nearly all stares of players to their boxes, whatever their reason, are annoying.
 
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