Heavily booed Tipsarevic retiring from Bercy was patethic

[Bhagi Katbamna]

Originally Posted by RadicalMPfan

The guy is a discrace to humanity

Wow. It's just tennis. It doesn't affect anyone's life. That's a bit too strong.

[Relinquis]

weak sauce. he should have stayed on court and taken his beating like a man. Almagro was on form and would have made it quick. If you're hurt, just limp from point to point.

Contrast that with Nishikori who battled through a knee injury today against Ferrer. Mark of a true competitor. Or Serena who rolled an ankle and then gave her opponent a beat-down earlier this very Australian Open.

Tipsy has no right to complain about, or even discuss, the WTA or pay again.

[librarysteg]

Originally Posted by Candide

Nice one, ethnic prejudice is much classier than dishonourable tanking. Maybe you could start a thread about which nationalites are have the best characteristics and which the worst. That'd be, like, rilly kewel and totally educational.

Keep meaning to tell you I love your avatar.

[DRII]

Originally Posted by Relinquis

weak sauce. he should have stayed on court and taken his beating like a man. Almagro was on form and would have made it quick. If you're hurt, just limp from point to point.

Contrast that with Nishikori who battled through a knee injury today against Ferrer. Mark of a true competitor. Or Serena who rolled an ankle and then gave her opponent a beat-down earlier this very Australian Open.

Tipsy has no right to complain about, or even discuss, the WTA or pay again.

Exactly right...

[Candide]

Originally Posted by librarysteg

Keep meaning to tell you I love your avatar.

Cheers. Greatest breakdown in tennis history.

"That's 72 unforced errors. He's playing the worst tennis of his life... Strange day out here at Windswept Fields."

[Towser83]

[*Sparkle*]

Originally Posted by sureshs

LOL Tipsy was one of the guys complaining about women's pay LOL

He takes the biscuit, but it's now reaching comedy proportions, so that's something.

[marosmith]

Originally Posted by Candide

Nice one, ethnic prejudice is much classier than dishonourable tanking. Maybe you could start a thread about which nationalites are have the best characteristics and which the worst. That'd be, like, rilly kewel and totally educational.

Lol

[Surecatch]

Originally Posted by vil

C'mon, you can't possibly compare chess to tennis in terms of resigning. In tennis rallies yes.
In high level of chess it is a good etiquette to resign in a lost position. Once a player sees he's lost a piece or there's a winning combination on the board, rest of the moves (for pros) are just a technicality until the check mate, so he resigns.
These days you hardly ever see a chess game ending with a check mate on high levels, they all end up by resigning.
Tennis is a motion fight not static, therefore more variables apply. You can still win even if you are losing. (theoretically)

In chess, it's actually considered bad form to continue a match that is hopeless...conceding is considered the sporting thing to do because the inevitable can be indefinitely delayed, but in chess it IS inevitable. Not so in tennis. In tennis, as in really all athletic sporting contests, you don't give up. You just don't. Why be out there in the first place if you aren't prepared to fight to the end, or at the very least to finish the match properly? Even if it wasnt disrespectful to the opponent, it's undignified. In short, it's a p**sy move, and reflects badly on the whole sport in which 99% of its players do scratch and claw to the end, or at least gut out the loss like a man (figure of speech...it applies just as well to the WTA).

[Bjorn99]

The guy is very injured, like a lot of players and watching that useless trainer they supplied him with supporting his leg on a tennis bag made me feel even more sorry for the cattle, er players.

[THUNDERVOLLEY]

Originally Posted by Paullaconte1

This guy is addicted to retirements when he feels hopeless and very close to be defeated.

...he's also addicted to running his mouth--making BS statements, while he amounts to nothing at the majors, and his pattern suggests he will end his "career" without even one.

[Paullaconte1]

Originally Posted by THUNDERVOLLEY

...he's also addicted to running his mouth--making BS statements, while he amounts to nothing at the majors, and his pattern suggests he will end his "career" without even one.

He has just tweeted: "The past can not be changed,the future is still in your power"

I guess he thinks he is a sort of Zen Master.

I think he lost it. Maybe because the wife has banned him for adding more tattoos? Sorry couldn't refrain from that!

[THUNDERVOLLEY]

Originally Posted by Paullaconte1

He has just tweeted: "The past can not be changed,the future is still in your power"

I guess he thinks he is a sort of Zen Master.

Too bad his power is the ancient technique of bailing out of matches.

I think he lost it. Maybe because the wife has banned him for adding more tattoos? Sorry couldn't refrain from that!

She should ban him from speaking...to anyone.

[Milan]

My favorite player

[Paullaconte1]

Now also Troicki retire when he was 2 games to go, alias when he was losing 6-0 4-2 down...

He could have waited other 2 games after playing 12... It must be a Serbian thing, but Djokovic doesn't seem to be such a bad loser

[Tafmatch]

Troicki is on perma-tilt, you can expect anything from him.

[Mustard]

Originally Posted by Paullaconte1

but Djokovic doesn't seem to be such a bad loser

Djokovic had a similar reputation a few years back. He's retired against Nadal in a couple of majors, against Coria in a major, against Roddick in a major (when Djokovic melted in the heat), against Federer in Monte Carlo.

[Vrad]

Originally Posted by Surecatch

In chess, it's actually considered bad form to continue a match that is hopeless...conceding is considered the sporting thing to do because the inevitable can be indefinitely delayed, but in chess it IS inevitable. Not so in tennis. In tennis, as in really all athletic sporting contests, you don't give up. You just don't. Why be out there in the first place if you aren't prepared to fight to the end, or at the very least to finish the match properly? Even if it wasnt disrespectful to the opponent, it's undignified. In short, it's a p**sy move, and reflects badly on the whole sport in which 99% of its players do scratch and claw to the end, or at least gut out the loss like a man (figure of speech...it applies just as well to the WTA).

Also, in chess it still counts as an outright win no different from being checkmated. Not so in tennis, where there is essentially an asterisk against the win.

[Fugazi]

Originally Posted by cork_screw

When you retire in this fashion, it basically fools your mind into thinking it wasn't an official loss. That there was a side factor in losing. I don't think he has come to terms of accepting losses. And someone who can't do that probably isn't GS champion material.

This, right on the money.

[Mainad]

Originally Posted by Mustard

Djokovic had a similar reputation a few years back. He's retired against Nadal in a couple of majors, against Coria in a major, against Roddick in a major (when Djokovic melted in the heat), against Federer in Monte Carlo.

Also against Murray in Cincinnati.