Dictionary Corner: Common terminology used to describe pros and their games
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Backspin1183
Talk Tennis Guru
How did miss an entire encyclopedia of tennis terms on TTW!
TheGhostOfAgassi
Talk Tennis Guru
Agree to disagree:
Something you say when you try to get out of an argument you are proven wrong.
Something you say when you try to get out of an argument you are proven wrong.
Third Serve
Talk Tennis Guru
Lucky: Anyone who beats a player you like. This excuse explanation is intended to be used in conjunction with Injury and Choke.
zagor
Bionic Poster
Breakpointerer
Legend
Real Tennis: Tennis played in a style/on a surface that you prefer.
occasionally match-up and surface can be thrown in the mix
even if it doesn't exist on ATP tour
Bender
G.O.A.T.
All-courter: A player whose game is balanced from behind the baseline
ForehandCross
G.O.A.T.
Unfair scheduling:
World's biggest injustice, placing an irrefutable as asterisk on the tournament if against your favourite player, Your favourite automatically becomes the rightful moral victor regardless of.losing or winning.
But easy to explain or simply bad luck associated with playing a sport if done with others.
World's biggest injustice, placing an irrefutable as asterisk on the tournament if against your favourite player, Your favourite automatically becomes the rightful moral victor regardless of.losing or winning.
But easy to explain or simply bad luck associated with playing a sport if done with others.
stringertom
Bionic Poster
Any dictionary will have multiple meanings for the same word. Therefore, please add a second one for:
#21 Exho: any tournament that can be won by the same player 10 or more times. Examples:
The Nadal was not able to win either the M-C M1K Exho or the Barcelona 500 Exho in 2019 but he did win the Paris Roland Garros Exho later that spring.
fedr won his 10th Gary Weber Open title in Halle in 2019, thereby raising the tournament to the exalted Exho status. He then duplicated that process in Basel four months later.
#21 Exho: any tournament that can be won by the same player 10 or more times. Examples:
The Nadal was not able to win either the M-C M1K Exho or the Barcelona 500 Exho in 2019 but he did win the Paris Roland Garros Exho later that spring.
fedr won his 10th Gary Weber Open title in Halle in 2019, thereby raising the tournament to the exalted Exho status. He then duplicated that process in Basel four months later.
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stringertom
Bionic Poster
No proper dictionary would be complete without:
The Real Slam: when a clueless fixture on this forum designates a 56-draw M1K as The Real Slam after the top 4 players advance to the SFs. He also incorrectly the eventual winner but that wasn’t unexpected.
The Real Slam: when a clueless fixture on this forum designates a 56-draw M1K as The Real Slam after the top 4 players advance to the SFs. He also incorrectly the eventual winner but that wasn’t unexpected.
TheGhostOfAgassi
Talk Tennis Guru
That reminds me of....
The draw: it’s fixed. This is always spoken of after the draw is set. Always an explanation for who drew who in SF, it’s scripted.
stringertom
Bionic Poster
GOAT surface retired: Madrid blue clay. Where ATGs lose to homeboy pigeons and cry afterwards but The Eagle prevails to be unbeatable.
PMChambers
Hall of Fame
Beckered - to have sexual intercoarse in a broom cupboard.
King No1e
G.O.A.T.
Or when you get bombarded with another 50 cherry-picked stats proving irrefutably that Fedr peaked in 2015
King No1e
G.O.A.T.
TTW: I wish we had more serve-and-volleyers on tour again, I miss the old days!
also TTW: Raonic is a boring bot with no groundstrokes, I can't stand watching him play
Third Serve
Talk Tennis Guru
Found this other thread from a long time ago with a similar premise:
Tennis_Hands
Banned
Good tennis: tennis uninterrupted by the enforcement of the rules of tennis by umpires.
Injured : 1) one of the four states that occur when a tennis player loses (the other three are " being rusty", "being humble" and "having family issues"
2) characteristic of a person that otherwise happens to play tennis.
3) the opposite of "mentally strong"
Mental strength: the reason why the favourites of the fans of real tennis (see real tennis) win tennis matches
Press conference Winner: an ad time
Press conference Loser: a math exercise where the loser calculates how much from his 100% form he was in the match, usually substituting percentages between 0-99% with the phrase "not at my best"
Serve and Volley: not real tennis
Baseline exchange: real tennis
Baseline exchange over 60 shots: 1) sleeping pill 2) drug resembling viagra
1HBH: musket (see 2HBH)
2HBH: automatic rifle (see 1HBH)
blue clay: alien surface unsuitable for tennis and introduced to assassinate the players that play real tennis (see real tennis)
Green clay: clay-like surface that the fans of both real tennis and not real tennis mistakenly use to ridicule the slowed down grass at Wimbledon
Fast surfaces: anything that facilitates rallies shorter than the time it takes someone to go make a smoothie and return to the rally
Winner: a cheating tactic used to extrude a point from the opponent
Unforced error: the only fair way to win a rally
Point construction: a repeated exchange of the ball from identical positions until one of the players makes a mistake. Usually above 30 shots.
Rebel: a player that you have grown up with from your teenage years, was the underdog at the beginning of his career and wore funny apparel. Usually needs to win over 100 million dollars in prize money and start wearing decent clothes to get rid of the image
Classic tennis: a spiteful description of beautiful and elegant strokes by the fans of real tennis. See "real tennis". See also "S&V".
Wimbledon: an event known amongst the fans of real tennis to be insignificant
WTF: An event known amongst the fans of real tennis to be an exo
Raquet lifting: indication from a player that he finds the ace that the opponent just served him to be an appalling interpretation of the spirit of the game and wants the point to be replayed in a more fair way
Olympic Singles Gold: 1) Tie-breaker, if your favourite player is behind in Majors, but stops being one the moment he is the Majors leader
2) mythical measure for ATG-ness
3) measure equalling 6 WTF titles
Injured : 1) one of the four states that occur when a tennis player loses (the other three are " being rusty", "being humble" and "having family issues"
2) characteristic of a person that otherwise happens to play tennis.
3) the opposite of "mentally strong"
Mental strength: the reason why the favourites of the fans of real tennis (see real tennis) win tennis matches
Press conference Winner: an ad time
Press conference Loser: a math exercise where the loser calculates how much from his 100% form he was in the match, usually substituting percentages between 0-99% with the phrase "not at my best"
Serve and Volley: not real tennis
Baseline exchange: real tennis
Baseline exchange over 60 shots: 1) sleeping pill 2) drug resembling viagra
1HBH: musket (see 2HBH)
2HBH: automatic rifle (see 1HBH)
blue clay: alien surface unsuitable for tennis and introduced to assassinate the players that play real tennis (see real tennis)
Green clay: clay-like surface that the fans of both real tennis and not real tennis mistakenly use to ridicule the slowed down grass at Wimbledon
Fast surfaces: anything that facilitates rallies shorter than the time it takes someone to go make a smoothie and return to the rally
Winner: a cheating tactic used to extrude a point from the opponent
Unforced error: the only fair way to win a rally
Point construction: a repeated exchange of the ball from identical positions until one of the players makes a mistake. Usually above 30 shots.
Rebel: a player that you have grown up with from your teenage years, was the underdog at the beginning of his career and wore funny apparel. Usually needs to win over 100 million dollars in prize money and start wearing decent clothes to get rid of the image
Classic tennis: a spiteful description of beautiful and elegant strokes by the fans of real tennis. See "real tennis". See also "S&V".
Wimbledon: an event known amongst the fans of real tennis to be insignificant
WTF: An event known amongst the fans of real tennis to be an exo
Raquet lifting: indication from a player that he finds the ace that the opponent just served him to be an appalling interpretation of the spirit of the game and wants the point to be replayed in a more fair way
Olympic Singles Gold: 1) Tie-breaker, if your favourite player is behind in Majors, but stops being one the moment he is the Majors leader
2) mythical measure for ATG-ness
3) measure equalling 6 WTF titles
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guanzishou
G.O.A.T.
Kyrgios hater: see: StANDAA
stringertom
Bionic Poster
You left out:"Good tennis": tennis uninterrupted by the enforcement of the rules of tennis by umpires.
"Injured" : 1) one of the four states that occur when a tennis player loses (the other three are " being rusty", "being humble" and "having family issues" 2) characteristic of a person that otherwise happens to play tennis. 3) the opposite of "mentally strong"
Mental strength: the reason why the favourites of the fans of real tennis (see real tennis) win tennis matches
Press conference Winner: an ad time
Press conference Loser: a math exercise where the loser calculates how much from his 100% form he was in the match, usually substituting percentages between 0-99% with the phrase "not at my best"
"Serve and Volley" < = > not real tennis
Baseline exchange <=> real tennis
Baseline exchange over 60 shots: 1) sleeping pill 2) drug resembling viagra
1HBH: musket (see 2HBH)
2HBH: automatic rifle (see 1HBH)
blue clay: alien surface unsuitable for tennis and introduced to assassinate the players that play real tennis (see real tennis)
Green clay: clay-like surface that the fans of both real tennis and not real tennis mistakenly use to ridicule the slowed down grass at Wimbledon
Fast surfaces: anything that facilitates rallies shorter than the time it takes someone to go make a smoothie and return to the rally
Winner: a cheating tactic used to extrude a point from the opponent
Unforced error: the only fair way to win a rally
Point construction: a repeated exchange of the ball from identical positions until one of the players makes a mistake. Usually above 30 shots.
Rebel: a player that you have grown up with from your teenage years, was the underdog at the beginning of his career and wore funny apparel. Usually needs to win over 100 million dollars in prize money and start wearing decent clothes to get rid of the image
Classic tennis: a spiteful description of beautiful and elegant strokes by the fans of real tennis. See "real tennis". See also "S&V".
Wimbledon: an event known amongst the fans of real tennis to be insignificant
WTF: An event known amongst the fans of real tennis to be an exo
Raquet lifting: indication from a player that he finds the ace that the opponent just served him to be an appalling interpretation of the spirit of the game and wants the point to be replayed in a more fair way
Indoor tennis: not real tennis unless played in Madrid during the autumn.
Tennis_Hands
Banned
Also, highly dangerous part of the season, when most imagininjuries occur. The antonym of Clay court season.
Clay court season: the period of the year where most health related miracles in tennis happen
Egg: a food, that is known amongst the tennis aficionados for its transformative properties
Gluten: an essential protein which presence or absence is known to be the the main ingredient in a pizza dough and a dough from tournament winnings
Fishing on a boat: a metaphorical expression for doping in international waters
Time between points: a concept that has nothing to do with time
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Tennis_Hands
Banned
Australian Open: a GS event where a new GOAT is crowned each year
French open: a GS event where most doping rumours are substantiated
Wimbledon: a GS event where the most speculations about what real tennis is occur
USO: a GS event where the most s*it happens
French open: a GS event where most doping rumours are substantiated
Wimbledon: a GS event where the most speculations about what real tennis is occur
USO: a GS event where the most s*it happens
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Deleted member 772264
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The accountant - Bernard Tomic counts his millions.
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Deleted member 772264
Guest
As will always be the case, as sure as the sun rising every morning in the east.
stringertom
Bionic Poster
Along with, “Here’s Johnny!” the phrase is synonymous with Jack Nicholson intensity.
ForehandCross
G.O.A.T.
Bump, because creativity like this deserves it.
ForehandCross
G.O.A.T.
Hmm that reminds me of someone with an extra large Nose.
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Deleted member 771911
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To be fair, Federer himself has talked about the career inflation era and how he's benefitted from it.
Other than that, great list.
Other than that, great list.
The Blond Blur
G.O.A.T.
Doper: (a) A player who has been caught with any PED in their system; (b) any player who's supremely conditioned that beats my favorite player(s).
Third Serve
Talk Tennis Guru
The first option is rare enough to be negligible, so it’s basically just b.
The Blond Blur
G.O.A.T.
I had to go with an actual definition + a TTW definition
Red Rick
Bionic Poster
Add option C) cyclists, cause tennis players would never do that
