Do you really watch tennis ?

I watch tennis when ...

  • My fav player is involved

    Votes: 48 44.4%
  • Big names are clashing

    Votes: 57 52.8%
  • I just watch any match because I loooove this game !

    Votes: 52 48.1%

  • Total voters
    108

Tennease

Legend
I watch if it's entertaining and educating. I go to toilet or go back to work on my computer or do other chores when it takes the players half an hour to ask for towels, choose balls, bounce the balls, do their make-up, sniff their body parts, etc.
 
I try not to miss a Federer match (even during work hours, TennisTV is a blessing). Other than him I try to watch whenever I have time and not doing anything else, but generally life's busy, so it's very Fed oriented, and then big player matchup/latter rounds of big tournaments type of tennis following for me
 

Lleytonstation

Talk Tennis Guru
I can only give so much of my time to Sports. College football has 40% and tennis has 60%. This lends me to the ability to be able to watch any majors event that is on, any masters event, and anytime Fed is playing. Maybe sprinkle in a 500 ATP every now and then during the early part of the year.
 

ibbi

G.O.A.T.
I wouldn't go so far as to say I'll watch ANY match unless I'm really truly desperate for something to kill time, but there's a whole load of guys who I will watch if they're on, yes.
 

atatu

Legend
I put on the tennis channel a lot as background, if the match is good or interesting I'll watch for a bit. I get excited watching up and coming players more than the big four. It's very rare that I'll sit through a five set match however.
 

Poisoned Slice

Bionic Poster
Does he at least know his forehand from his backhand?
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Sysyphus

Talk Tennis Guru
No, in fact I do not, at all, thank you very much for asking.

In a radical enactment of Plato's Allegory of the Cave, I have vowed to never watch so much as a second of real, actual tennis, but instead only learn of the game through the second-hand descriptions I can read on TTW, much like Plato's prisoners could only learn about reality through the shadows cast on the wall of the cave. In fact, I have even disabled the gifs in my browser so as not to inadvertently stumble upon pictures of actual tennis when I browse TTW.

I think this has given me a good grasp of the game to be honest. The main take-away for me is that tennis is a sport of very low levels of competence and skill. There are a lot of mugs out there. A lot.

Thank you for teaching me to see tennis the way you do,
Sincerely,
Platypus
 

The Green Mile

Bionic Poster
Every Fed match, every Simon match, all majors, 1000s, specific 500s and 250s (usually if it's on the TV I'll watch that tournament, rather than stream the other ongoing event). Don't bother with challenger or below. No other sports and don't watch that much Film and TV either.
 

Edhead-Fedhead

Hall of Fame
I watch more than just the first two options, but less than the third option. I like to check in on early rounds via TennisTV to get familiar with lesser known players and their style of play (because I know I'll be needing a new favorite eventually...)
 
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Deleted member 688153

Guest
Voted for first two options but I do often watch random matches with no particular player when the other guys aren't on.
I love attending the outer court matches when I actually go to tournaments. The grounds pass is terrific value
 
In addition to going to events that I can like the US Open and Cincy every year, and various others across the lands at times. I have TennisTV and Tennis Channel on DirectTV Now with a job where I can have it on the second screen all day

I watch a good amount

Too bad we have to pretend to be able to see the ball coming up in the sport of clay tennis that they air generously on tennis media properties
 

MeatTornado

Talk Tennis Guru
I gladly watch just about any slam match if I'm home. Anything below that and I don't really tune in until the quarters, if at all.

But different rules apply for the Big 3. I'll watch them just about any time. But Fed is the only one I'm going to wake up at 3AM for or schedule my day around.
 

Edhead-Fedhead

Hall of Fame
Voted for first two options but I do often watch random matches with no particular player when the other guys aren't on.
I love attending the outer court matches when I actually go to tournaments. The grounds pass is terrific value
Totally agree with this (although I haven't had the opportunity in awhile.) In fact, I was wandering the grounds of Indian Wells 2001 and saw a bit of Federer in the first round. (he lost to Kiefer o_O)
 
I try not to miss a Federer match (even during work hours, TennisTV is a blessing). Other than him I try to watch whenever I have time and not doing anything else, but generally life's busy, so it's very Fed oriented, and then big player matchup/latter rounds of big tournaments type of tennis following for me
Exactly this for me too. Although these days I do try to watch a significant portion of Shapovalov's matches as well. For pretty much all the other players, the 5-10 minute highlight videos are enough for me. Even if it's later on in the tournament.

Somewhat unfortunately, my fandom towards Federer seems to be bigger than my fandom towards tennis as a whole. At least when it comes to watching the game.
 

Federer and Del Potro

Talk Tennis Guru
No, in fact I do not, at all, thank you very much for asking.

In a radical enactment of Plato's Allegory of the Cave, I have vowed to never watch so much as a second of real, actual tennis, but instead only learn of the game through the second-hand descriptions I can read on TTW, much like Plato's prisoners could only learn about reality through the shadows cast on the wall of the cave. In fact, I have even disabled the gifs in my browser so as not to inadvertently stumble upon pictures of actual tennis when I browse TTW.

I think this has given me a good grasp of the game to be honest. The main take-away for me is that tennis is a sport of very low levels of competence and skill. There are a lot of mugs out there. A lot.

Thank you for teaching me to see tennis the way you do,
Sincerely,
Platypus

Choked on my Skittles reading this.
 

Tennisgods

Hall of Fame
Personally, there’s only so much time I have for watching tennis. Fav players, big matches or if there’s nothing else on. Players that are renowned entertainers etc.
 

Centrius

Professional
If Isner, Opelka or Karlovic don't play there is a high chance I see the match.On the women's side I don't follow WTA at all.
 
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Deleted member 688153

Guest
In addition to going to events that I can like the US Open and Cincy every year, and various others across the lands at times. I have TennisTV and Tennis Channel on DirectTV Now with a job where I can have it on the second screen all day

I watch a good amount

Too bad we have to pretend to be able to see the ball coming up in the sport of clay tennis that they air generously on tennis media properties
The blue clay was so much better on TV
 
No, in fact I do not, at all, thank you very much for asking.

In a radical enactment of Plato's Allegory of the Cave, I have vowed to never watch so much as a second of real, actual tennis, but instead only learn of the game through the second-hand descriptions I can read on TTW, much like Plato's prisoners could only learn about reality through the shadows cast on the wall of the cave. In fact, I have even disabled the gifs in my browser so as not to inadvertently stumble upon pictures of actual tennis when I browse TTW.

I think this has given me a good grasp of the game to be honest. The main take-away for me is that tennis is a sport of very low levels of competence and skill. There are a lot of mugs out there. A lot.

Thank you for teaching me to see tennis the way you do,
Sincerely,
Platypus

I see it's a version of the Allegory of the Cave wherein the path to enlightenment was not to break free from the chains, leave the cave, and acknowledge the true form of things in open daylight, but to have a fun time guessing the shadows on the wall. Man, the Allegory of the Cave sorta sounds like one of those edgy facebook cartoons about society now that I think about it.

Anyways, not having watched any sports in the past couple days I have surmised that Pickleball is a game requiring immense finesse, athleticism, and variation. Tennis, on the other hand... now don't get me started on that hacker "sport."
 

Mainad

Bionic Poster
I'll watch tennis whenever I am given the opportunity which seems to be getting less and less these days. Once upon a time I could happily watch ATP and WTA tennis on my Sky Sports/ Eurosports channels. Alas, no longer. I now have to rely on watching Slams and Masters events on Amazon Prime on my computer whilst trying to locate any WTA tennis has become almost impossible (unless Tennis Live Stream decides to show any which is far from guaranteed).

The situation just seems to get worse and worse! :mad:
 

Sport

G.O.A.T.
No, in fact I do not, at all, thank you very much for asking.

In a radical enactment of Plato's Allegory of the Cave, I have vowed to never watch so much as a second of real, actual tennis, but instead only learn of the game through the second-hand descriptions I can read on TTW, much like Plato's prisoners could only learn about reality through the shadows cast on the wall of the cave. In fact, I have even disabled the gifs in my browser so as not to inadvertently stumble upon pictures of actual tennis when I browse TTW.

I think this has given me a good grasp of the game to be honest. The main take-away for me is that tennis is a sport of very low levels of competence and skill. There are a lot of mugs out there. A lot.

Thank you for teaching me to see tennis the way you do,
Sincerely,
Platypus
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Harry_Wild

G.O.A.T.
It is tough to watch pro tennis worldwide unless you have an VPN account. In the U.S. there is very limited coverage of tennis tournaments and what is available is usually edited match for time constraints or for commentators to talk tennis and broadcast promotions. You almost have to go to the country it being play in to get full coverage. In the U.S., the production on smaller size tennis tournaments is terrible. Player entrances, coin toss, warm-ups and rest periods are cut off for chats with TV commentators trying to drum up the match and commercials. So bad! It is the last resort for me to tune into TC broadcasting unless you want to drive yourself crazy! Everything is full of talk and the way TC produces it tennis coverage continuous change views makes me dizzy. Wide view to close up to wide screen for server, then returner’s close and them the serve, wide angle view, etc... ?Why not just do back of court full screen view for action?
 
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It is tough to watch pro tennis worldwide unless you have an VPN account. In the U.S. there is very limited coverage of tennis tournaments and what is available is usually edited match for time constraints or for commentators to talk tennis and broadcast promotions. You almost have to go to the country it being play in to get full coverage. In the U.S., the production on smaller size tennis tournaments is terrible. Player entrances, coin toss, warm-ups and rest periods are cut off for chats with TV commentators trying to drum up the match and commercials. So bad! It is the last resort for me to tune into TC broadcasting unless you want to drive yourself crazy! Everything is full of talk and the way TC produces it tennis coverage continuous change views makes me dizzy. Wide view to close up to wide screen for server, then returner’s close and them the serve, wide angle view, etc... ?Why not just do back of court full screen view for action?

Or you just get TennisTV and dont have to worry about any of that
 

bjk

Hall of Fame
There are playes I like watching - Sandgren, Bublik, Kyrgios, Eubanks, Rubin, Johnson, Nishikori, Shapo, Tiafoe, PHH. Players that have different styles or stratagies are interesting, that might be a lot better than they are right now. So if Shapo is playing Tiafoe or Bublik vs Sandgren, I'd definitely watch that. I won't watch the big matches unless I've got a bet. And usually I'll be doing something else while I watch the match.
 
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Luka888

Professional
I watch everything I can to be honest. It's hard to keep up :oops:. There are too many tournaments, too many stories. It's difficult to watch smaller tournaments like some challengers. You have to search up on the net who is streaming what. Then, you get a gazillions of ads. Then I have to clean up my browser.

The ATP should actually promote all tournaments better. They should let live streaming. They should do more to make tennis more popular if you wish. It's kinda here and there. You do have people from 'smaller countries' who support their favorite players and they can't watch them on a regular basis. I think it's OK. It would be a good start. How much does it cost nowadays to stream a live match? Next to nothing.

I know that everyone wants to watch Fed, Nole or Rafa. The thing is they do not play too often.
 
most of atp top 300 ok to me as long as got slow motion replay n some point built-up/strategy quite interesting as well, big names or not who cares nothing to do w/ me. never ever bother going to a stadium to watch as no slow motion replay, not to mention waste time/$$ n won't do it even got paid to go there n sitting there like idiot. but if got paid a lot n allowed to watch large screen at front of me w/ slow motion replay then i might consider to be there......lololol, man:)))..................
 
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