Djokovic ripping his shirt off: Sanctions or not?

[Sid_Vicious]

Originally Posted by Big_Dangerous

First off all, there are plenty of women in the crowd, so it's not gay. Second of all, so what if it is. There's nothing wrong with that.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ghey

I don't think he intended to be technical.

[Feather]

Originally Posted by Big_Dangerous

First off all, there are plenty of women in the crowd, so it's not gay. Second of all, so what if it is. There's nothing wrong with that.

Subjective, you can say that you don't find anything wrong with that. I do feel that repulsive. So to each, ones own view. However, there is a reason why FIFA gives yellow cards to players who take off their shirts.

Djokovic doesn't have any class at all while celebrating. That's my view. You can disagree. I saw your gif for haters, and please not that people who find that repulsive are not haters. Not everyone is a Djokovic fan to enjoy all those disgusting acts

[TheF1Bob]

Originally Posted by Feather

Subjective, you can say that you don't find anything wrong with that. I do feel that repulsive. So to each, ones own view. However, there is a reason why FIFA gives yellow cards to players who take off their shirts.

Djokovic doesn't have any class at all while celebrating. That's my view. You can disagree. I saw your gif for haters, and please not that people who find that repulsive are not haters. Not everyone is a Djokovic fan to enjoy all those disgusting acts

You want class? What about Nadal Vamosing every error an opponent makes. Federer yelling at the crowd... The list goes on.

[Breaker]

Originally Posted by Feather

Subjective, you can say that you don't find anything wrong with that. I do feel that repulsive. So to each, ones own view. However, there is a reason why FIFA gives yellow cards to players who take off their shirts.

Djokovic doesn't have any class at all while celebrating. That's my view. You can disagree. I saw your gif for haters, and please not that people who find that repulsive are not haters. Not everyone is a Djokovic fan to enjoy all those disgusting acts

The yellow for taking the shirt off is one of the worst rules in football, and even then you only get a yellow for taking it off during the match - not after.

If Djokovic celebrates winning a point/set the same way then sure give him a warning but 'disgusting' and 'classless' are hilarious words to describe this situation

[Hawkeye7]

Originally Posted by Boredsurfer

I like Novak - usually I find him to be gracious in defeat and I think he is a classy athlete who is really just out to enjoy himself most of the time, HOWEVER that shirt thing is a little 'GHEY' and a lot cheesy.

He isn't classy. Just good at faking it.

[librarysteg]

I've been trying to imagine other players ripping their shirts off. Has anyone else done it after a match? Who are some of the guys that you could picture doing it? I can picture players like Monfils, Janowicz, even Nadal doing it or something similar. It makes me laugh out loud picturing Federer or Murray or someone quiet like Cilic.

[kragster]

i think a lifetime ban and 10 yr prison sentence, nothing less.

[ledwix]

Djokovic's celebrations make tennis look better to outside sports and their fans, honestly. At least the post-match ones. Big celebrations during a match are stupid imo since you haven't even won yet. Just depends which direction you want the sport to move.

[*Sparkle*]

This was voted one of the highlights of London 2012! The German discus winner tore his shirt off, wrapped himself in his flag and went over the hurdles and everyone in Britain loved him for it.





http://youtu.be/kwGjR0MzAm8

[gsharma]

That was at the friggin Olympics, which come around every 4 years, can be the culmination of all your life's work. This was a friggin 4th round match and he did it on court in front of of his opponent who was pretty heartbroken.

Anyway, would love to see someone do the shirt-tearing thing to Joker and see what he thinks.

[RajFederer]

Tearing the shirt .. and celebratin isnt a sin...

but he ****ing did that in a 4th round match... OMFG .. lmao !!

[RajFederer]

even Nadal and federer almost lost in many 3rd and 4th round matches but came back strongly..

like roger- benneteau match.. roger-tommy haas french open.. but u can ee their celebrations after winning it.. just a fist pump ..thats it !!

Novak doing this in final is acceptable.. in a 4th round match ? lolzzzz :P :P :P

[novak.20v]

Not a fan of it.. at all, but meh.
A player should celebrate how they want.

[guitarplayer]

Originally Posted by Clarky21

Sanction him for making me want to gag. This guy is such a classless ape that I cannot believe he has fans. He is disgusting in every possible way there is.

My thoughts exactly.

[Relinquis]

Originally Posted by librarysteg

I've been trying to imagine other players ripping their shirts off. Has anyone else done it after a match? Who are some of the guys that you could picture doing it? I can picture players like Monfils, Janowicz, even Nadal doing it or something similar. It makes me laugh out loud picturing Federer or Murray or someone quiet like Cilic.

that's an interesting point. would it be less vulgar if one of the more muscular players did it? also, one with a more aggressive playing style? maybe not as odd as skinny Novak doing it, but i still would think it is cheesy and a bit tasteless. If Federer did it i would probably fall over laughing at him. I'm sure Mirka would be mortified. I can imagine all the press and comedians making fun of it.

I can see Janowicz doing it out of frustration after a bad call! Or maybe Monfils doing it as a joke or ironically while clowning around, but it's just too cheesy a move to do seriously the way Djokovic does it.

I'm struggling to picture a context in which it would make sense to do this in tennis, in a celebratory manner.

[novak.20v]

Originally Posted by librarysteg

I've been trying to imagine other players ripping their shirts off. Has anyone else done it after a match? Who are some of the guys that you could picture doing it? I can picture players like Monfils, Janowicz, even Nadal doing it or something similar. It makes me laugh out loud picturing Federer or Murray or someone quiet like Cilic.

I swear Murray has done it once before, A very long time ago.

I remember Roddick doing it at the French one year, no surprise there though.

[als47]

I like Novak, but I think it was over the top in this case, considering the relative difference in rank, the relative earliness in the tournament, the fact that he possibly skated by on a bad line call, etc. It would've been classier not to do it.

On the other hand, for tournament finals, or where you've been battling it out with someone who's approximately your equal, I think it's fine. It's hard to put into words, but one feels earned and one feels like you're being a jerk.

I'm quite sure he did it out of pure emotion and didn't mean anything by it, though. He was probably just incredibly relieved.

[Steve0904]

I said no. He can celebrate whatever way he likes, but that doesn't mean I have to like it because tbh I don't.

[Hitman]

If anything, it acknowledges just how good Stan played, and how REAL the threat to the champ Stan really was. Maybe it was a little too much, but this was an absolute thriller of a match that was just filled with quality.

[vive le beau jeu !]

Originally Posted by librarysteg

I've been trying to imagine other players ripping their shirts off. Has anyone else done it after a match? Who are some of the guys that you could picture doing it? I can picture players like Monfils, Janowicz, even Nadal doing it or something similar. It makes me laugh out loud picturing Federer or Murray or someone quiet like Cilic.

ivanisevic did it at wimbledon 2001 (after beating roddick... and also some other matches, maybe ?)... but i'd say the relief of goran was more understandable.