Kyle Edmund subjected to disgusting abuse after defeat to Novak Djokovic

[I Am Finnish]

Up a set and 5-2, you'd be counting your money at that point. I would actually love to see their reaction once Nishioka pulled off the Houdini act, and came back to win.

Losing their ****s for sure

 

[vive le beau jeu !]

he was even called "a mug" in an anonymous letter signed by a mysterious "90's c."

 

[every7]

Would something like that bother you? Seriously...delete and ignore.

Of course it would. These are often public posts, too, so the impact is not only on the player but the viewing audience who looks at their social presence. There is effort and administration involved in cleaning up the mess, and deleting posts / threads / tweets etc etc. Quite aside from the emotional toll, it is all time and energy spent involving yourself in something when you don't have a lot of time and energy to spare. Don't get me wrong I am so grateful that athletes go to the effort, the benefit is we get get great content and access. But it is an extra headache for the player for sure imo.

I know it's a different platform, but early days prior to joining, Federer was very critical of the pitfalls of joining twitter. His classic response was "Why would I?" when a journalist asked if he would join Twitter. He recognised the potential wasted time and effort involved in being a part of the medium. In his case it became part of his branding, and another thing to be monetized, with a staff to help him, so he has since joined. But prima facie he recognised that you are essentially creating extra work for yourself. And beyond that, you are opening an avenue of access for people making abusive, violent threats under the cloak of semi-anonymity.

I know people have mentioned trolling and young people just "acting out" as the source of a lot of this abuse. From what I understand, 99% of these sort of threats do come from degenerate gamblers and criminals who have lost money while betting on the players either legally or illegally.

he was even called "a mug" in an anonymous letter signed by a mysterious "90's c."

 

[stringertom]

Imagine they bet on berdych

Or Prince George Joffrey McFly to win a tournament!

 

[stringertom]

Up a set and 5-2, you'd be counting your money at that point. I would actually love to see their reaction once Nishioka pulled off the Houdini act, and came back to win.

I think one of them might be Les Grossman:

"I will massacre you!" I will **** you up!"

I met the real Les Grossman! He's still a little pi$$ed they portrayed him without his authorization!

 

[stringertom]

he was even called "a mug" in an anonymous letter signed by a mysterious "90's c."

I'm hoping two MUGs with berets take him out this weekend in Rouen!

Vive La France!