Mainad
Bionic Poster
I actually think I have to start a part 2 for this thread, because I was stupid enough to think one poast was enough to cover all the terms.
Can't wait for Part 2.
I actually think I have to start a part 2 for this thread, because I was stupid enough to think one poast was enough to cover all the terms.
79. Objective: A Roger Federer fan
80. Spencer: A random girl you can see on TTW for unknown reasons
81. Three: How many titles Mainad's favorite player won at Wimbledon
83. Djokovic is not a tennis legend: a) The objectively highest level of objectivity attained by tennis observers; b) The great wisdom of people who even watched Laver live82. Nole Slam: (a) Djokovic's greatest achievement; (b) A sh!tposter on TTW
Is 80. only that? Disappointed much.79. Objective: A Roger Federer fan
80. Spencer: A random girl you can see on TTW for unknown reasons
What would be your definition?Is 80. only that? Disappointed much.
Not the girl next door, but wishing she would.What would be your definition?
Yeah I hate those players they can't just play a fun & exciting match that has pressure moments like most playersPusher : any player more consistent than you
e.g. I lost that match, but my opponent was a pusher
Pusher : any player more consistent than you
e.g. I lost that match, but my opponent was a pusher
86. Serbia: The country full of clueless fanboyz who believe that Novak Djokovic is a tennis legend ROFLMAO83. Djokovic is not a tennis legend: a) The objectively highest level of objectivity attained by tennis observers; b) The great wisdom of people who even watched Laver live
84. GOAT: A tennis player who is extremely popular and has more money than his rivals
85. : An emoji often used by intelligent people who are unbeaten in TTW debates
86. Serbia: The country full of clueless fanboyz who believe that Novak Djokovic is a tennis legend ROFLMAO
Agism: when your favorite player cannot cope with one specific younger player
No meaning for the word "Baghdatis"?
Just like Berrettini Open? Or Serena Williams?let's take your last name and add some meaning to it
Just like Berrettini Open?
We call this “recency bias”We need a name for the desperation/delusion/mania/over-rating of Medvedev's abilities on clay that reached fever pitch during the Garin match and ended abruptly after the QF against Stefanos Tsitsipas.
I certainly welcome all these suggestions because I still need to compile a new list for a Part II, but a lot of these are duplicates or additions to existing entries and I’m already at my max chars
Mental Health: Term used to avoid pesky reporters with uncomfortable questions
Italian teenagers: Guys who raise high hopes of dethroning the Big 2, thus preserving the Great one's records, but in reality only flatter to deceive
I'd buy that for a $1...or more
the most overrated player: When for some reason you can't accept the fact that a player can be super talented but not dedicated enough to fulfil their potentials in professional tennis.
If you wanna win a slam you need to beat this guy, almost in every slam.Berrettini Open: When you can't accept the fact that Nadal has won another hard court slam.
If you wanna win a slam you need to beat this guy, almost in every slam.
How did I miss this? Absolute gem. Should be pinned!This thread is a glossary of commonly-used terminology by resident posters, for new joiners who may not understand what they mean.
- Aggressive: A player who hits a lot of unforced errors
- All-round game: A player you like with no weapons
- A$shole: A player you dislike who is confrontational
- Ballboy: A modern day slave (@Fedforever)
- Berrettini Open: (a) when a major event becomes unimportant because the winner is a player that you dislike, and your favourite player lost to a journeyman; (b) the 2019 United States Open (@blablavla)
- BOAT: (a) Pity award given by someone with nothing to a player with an ATG resume; (b) misspelling of "Borat", a fictional person from the east of civilisation whose character is defined by pushing antiquated views of science and medicine, and trying and failing to attain wide adulation by virtue of being himself
- Brain-dead: A player who fails to execute an inappropriate high-risk shot; see also: genius (antonym)
- Cakewalk: a draw full of weak players that your favourite players managed to lose to
- Career Inflation Era: When an old guy you dislike wins a lot; rounded to the nearest decade (@Red Rick)
- Charity: A tournament that does not award ATP points featuring a player you like who may be compensating for or inflaming tax avoidance schemes
- Cheating: Actions that are clearly infractions of the tennis rules and regulations provided they are interpreted carte blanche and incorrectly to players you dislike (@Fedforever)
- Choke: (a) when a player you like loses from a neutral or winning situation; (b) (rare) when a player you like loses from a losing position
- Civilisation: The continent that you are from
- Classy: Behaviour of a player you like
- Clay: The surface of the tournament in which a player you like lost
- Cringey: Behaviour exhibited by a player you dislike
- Defensive: A player who will not allow opponents to hit free winners; see: pusher
- Doper: A player you dislike who is fitter than your favourite player(s) (@The Blond Blur)
- Elo: Numbers you push if a player you like has not won as much as you had hoped in order to make a tournament or season more impressive (@TheGhostOfAgassi)
- Epic: Everything @MichaelNadal likes in life (@Red Rick)
- Excuse: Injury suffered by a player that you dislike; see: injury
- Exho: A tournament a player you like has never won; not to be confused with: exhibition; see: money grab
- Eye Test: An objective way of praising an opponent a player you like has beaten handily (sometimes on a regular basis) to give the win extra value; (b) An objective way of criticising opponents of players you dislike in order to diminish the player's wins (@Doctor/Lawyer Red Devil)
- Fact: (a) Fake information you like; (b) your opinions
- Fake: (a) Facts you dislike; (b) other people's opinions if they contradict your own
- Fighting spirit: When a player sweats too much during matches (@StANDAA)
- Fluke: When Dominic Thiem wins a point (@Yugram)
- Genius: A player who successfully executes an inappropriate high-risk shot. See also: brain-dead (antonym)
- Gentleman: Roger Federer after Nike's PR team spent millions on his image to move their products (@skaj and @ForehandCross)
- Geometric mean: See: Fact, Opinion, statistic (@Third Serve and @blablavla)
- GOAT: The player you like most
- Hater: A poster who disagrees that your favourite player is the GOAT (@Third Serve)
- Hawkeye: An infallible machine unless it contradicts Roger Federer (@Fedforever)
- Homogenisation: When a current player you dislike achieves more than a former player you did like (@Red Rick)
- Hypothetical: (a) A theoretical match, tournament, or season in which Federer wins (@Oceans); (b) A scenario where your favourite player can be called GOAT by giving him characteristics or timelines that are inconsistent with reality; see: unbeatable (@Fabresque)
- Injury: The reason why a player you like lost
- Lol: When you dislike an argument or comment regarding your favourite player but can neither dispute it (due to its legitimacy or accuracy), nor accept it due to closed-mindedness (@skaj)
- Medical Time Out: Serious injury concern if taken by a player you like; otherwise, see: cheating (@Fedforever)
- Mental weakness: A player who spends more time and effort fixing his hair than sweating and winning
- Money grab: A tournament that does not award ATP points, featuring a player you dislike
- Moral victory: A participation title bestowed to a player you like for losing, especially if an injury is involved
- Mug: A pejorative for a lower-ranked player who fails to beat a higher-ranked player he had no chance of beating in the first place (@ForehandCross)
- Neo Backhand: A Federer backhand that goes in
- NextGen: Young players who keep losing to a player you dislike (@Red Rick)
- Old: (a) ages 27 and above for Roger Federer; (b) ages 33 and above for everyone else
- Old school style: A player you like with a 1HBH regardless of playing style
- Overrated: A player you dislike who has shown either great potential (see: talent) or has won some major titles, sometimes beating all time greats along the way (@skaj)
- Peak: The level of a player when he loses to a player you like (@King No1e)
- Performance Enhancing Drugs: Illegal drugs used by everyone except the players you like (@Fedforever)
- Pigeon: Any player who has lost more than one big match to a player you like more (@King No1e)
- Popularity: A measure of GOAThood when your preferred candidate does not possess achievements that can objectively rival that of the front-runner (@TheGhostOfAgassi)
- Pusher: (a) A player you dislike whose wins make you angry; (b) any player on the other side of the net when your favourite player hits an unforced error; see also: defensive
- Real Slam: (a) The Western & Southern Open (@megamind); (b) The Swiss Indoors; (c) Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell
- Robot: A player you dislike who has hit more than two groundstrokes in a row at some point in his career
- Roof: A co......
Asterisk: * (see Berrettini Open)
When has he got that GOAT name?GOAT: Rafael Nadal, though he will tell you he isn’t
Last weekWhen has he got that GOAT name?
I'm afraid he hasn't got it.Last week
Yeah, that title still belongs to TomicI'm afraid he hasn't got it.