He'll obviously say like that when he's one it twice, being honoured and gets wildcards.
"I follow golf very closely and have no idea how many ranking points the winner of the The Masters gets. Me and my friends love football and non of us know or care how many ranking points a team gets for winning the World Cup.
"But I could tell you exactly who won the World Cup and the Masters. I'd hazard a guess that most people watching on Centre Court at Wimbledon in a few weeks time wouldn't know or care about how many ranking points a player gets for winning a 3rd round match.
Andy Murray: Wimbledon will never feel like an exhibition; Disagrees with Cameron Norrie, Naomi Osaka
Great Britains Andy Murray takes to Twitter to voice disagreement with comments made by Cameron Norrie and Naomi Osaka that Wimbledon has been reduced to an exhibition and players may not turn up; ATP, WTA stripped ranking points after LTA barred Russian and Belarusian playerswww.skysports.com
Murray : Wimbledon will never be an exhibition and will never feel like an exhibition. The end.
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ojo rojo
Legend
PrinceMoron
Legend
Got tickets for final Saturday so Men’s Doubles and of course Ladies final
Home for Gentlemen on Sunday with feet up and hopefully 4 hours of tennis.
IgoatFerlkeVogus
Rookie
Totally agree
"I follow golf very closely and have no idea how many ranking points the winner of the The Masters gets. Me and my friends love football and non of us know or care how many ranking points a team gets for winning the World Cup.
"But I could tell you exactly who won the World Cup and the Masters. I'd hazard a guess that most people watching on Centre Court at Wimbledon in a few weeks time wouldn't know or care about how many ranking points a player gets for winning a 3rd round match.
Andy Murray: Wimbledon will never feel like an exhibition; Disagrees with Cameron Norrie, Naomi Osaka
Great Britains Andy Murray takes to Twitter to voice disagreement with comments made by Cameron Norrie and Naomi Osaka that Wimbledon has been reduced to an exhibition and players may not turn up; ATP, WTA stripped ranking points after LTA barred Russian and Belarusian players
Permitlady
Professional
Howd you feel about Djokovic and AO?
MichaelNadal
Bionic Poster
Facts Andy
Permitlady
Professional
Russian players win and money gets sent to Russia's economy.
GabeT
G.O.A.T.
It’s very difficult to send money to Russia now and in any case that has almost no impact on the overall economy. But if that were an argument to ban players then they should be banned from all tournaments
Permitlady
Professional
I'm addressing the damage that can be done. Russia is not its land. Hurt Russians by taking money from them and prevent them from buying goods from other Russians.
And Russians should be banned from all tournaments if you mean to hurt them. It has to begin somewhere.
hoodjem
G.O.A.T.
Yay! Just like the AO 2022.It's only an exhibition if the triple defending champion is not allowed to play.
C'mon Nole, boycott!
beard
Legend
Why would you give Nadal a final? He haven't been in the Wimbledon final over a decade... Anderson, Berretinni, Murray, Federer have more rights to play that final against Novak...
That was definitely wrong either, no question for me. Actually the whole propaganda around those Covid vaccinations was an absurdity IMO, but this isn't the right place to discuss such a topic.
Mustard
Bionic Poster
Well it did in 1973, Andy. Check your history. 81 players on the men's side boycotted on that occasion.
"I follow golf very closely and have no idea how many ranking points the winner of the The Masters gets. Me and my friends love football and non of us know or care how many ranking points a team gets for winning the World Cup.
"But I could tell you exactly who won the World Cup and the Masters. I'd hazard a guess that most people watching on Centre Court at Wimbledon in a few weeks time wouldn't know or care about how many ranking points a player gets for winning a 3rd round match.
Andy Murray: Wimbledon will never feel like an exhibition; Disagrees with Cameron Norrie, Naomi Osaka
Great Britains Andy Murray takes to Twitter to voice disagreement with comments made by Cameron Norrie and Naomi Osaka that Wimbledon has been reduced to an exhibition and players may not turn up; ATP, WTA stripped ranking points after LTA barred Russian and Belarusian players
why was Pilic not allowed to play?
Permitlady
Professional
Respect
Permitlady
Professional
Imagine having a tech job and your Twitter picture is of you holding a keyboard.
Mustard
Bionic Poster
Because Pilic declined to play in Yugoslavia's 1973 Davis Cup match against New Zealand, and the tennis authorities responded by banning him from Wimbledon. The ATP called their players out on a boycott, and only 3 of the other 84 ATP players refused, those being Ilie Nastase, Roger Taylor and Ray Keldie, who were later fined by the ATP for their strikebreaking actions.
Jimmy Connors wasn't an ATP member at the time, nor for years afterwards, but the fact that he refused to join the ATP before 1973 Wimbledon, chose not to play Davis Cup himself very often in the years following (without getting banned) and went his own way on what events he played, irked a lot of ATP players, particularly Arthur Ashe. Connors was also very annoyed with both the ATP and ITF for how he was banned from the 1974 French Open for participating in World Team Tennis, thereby denying him a possible Grand Slam that year. Connors and Ashe had this complex love/hate relationship for years afterwards.
_phantom
Hall of Fame
All the questions have been answered here -
FAQ On ATP's Decision Regarding 2022 Wimbledon | ATP Tour | Tennis
ATP answers frequently asked questions regarding its decision to remove ATP Rankings points from 2022 Wimbledon.
www.atptour.com
Hey thanks. And just reading the explanation seems like a total cop out from the ATP/WTA. And why I can't take them seriously. They are literally not taking points from the other events for nonsense reason. That has nothing to do with UK banning the players. The other concurrent events can't take every Russian or Belarussian.All the questions have been answered here -
FAQ On ATP's Decision Regarding 2022 Wimbledon | ATP Tour | Tennis
ATP answers frequently asked questions regarding its decision to remove ATP Rankings points from 2022 Wimbledon.
Mainad
Bionic Poster
All of this nonsense could easily have been avoided if the AELTC had simply stuck with tradition (which is usually considered very important at Wimbledon) and not bowed to so-called advice/pressure from the British government. They have never banned players from controversial countries before, so why do it now and risk even further controversy which may harm its future standing?
_phantom
Hall of Fame
Not a perfect solution. But a warning message like this to tournament organizers was needed so that they think twice before taking any unilateral decision in future.
ITF too agrees with ATP/WTA on this.
Its a joke of a decision. They literally crap on the entire reason they took points from Wimbledon but not other UK events. Just because their are other events going on concurrent. The lower ranked Russians just can't waltz into these concurrent events.
Technology Ruined Tennis
Hall of Fame
Tournaments Nadal has won can never be exhibitions.
One's he hasn't won though.........
One's he hasn't won though.........
dapchai
Legend
Because Andy is not an ATG.All of this nonsense could easily have been avoided if the AELTC had simply stuck with tradition (which is usually considered very important at Wimbledon) and not bowed to so-called advice/pressure from the British government. They have never banned players from controversial countries before, so why do it now and risk even further controversy which may harm its future standing?
I mean Andy Roddick
Mainad
Bionic Poster
For the dedicated VBers on here, WTF and Miami will always be exhibitions...........
.........until he wins them.
Mustard
Bionic Poster
Precisely. Whereas the ATP/WTA doing nothing would only encourage further attacks from tennis bosses/government politicians. That's power relations, where you do what you can get away with. While I've condemned Djokovic for the Australia farce, and stick by that, I think that there's no doubt that the whole legal circus/Djokovic's deportation while the tournament then went ahead as normal, encouraged Wimbledon to think that they could get away with banning Russian and Belarussian players without any comeback.
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bluetrain4
G.O.A.T.
Murray was oddly defensive about this. Osaka suggests it might feel more like an exhibition without points - just stream of conscious musings - and Murray goes OFF that it could NEVER be considered an exhibition. Why would he even care?
toby55555
Hall of Fame
Cayman Islands more likely.
Maybe it touched a nerve as some people don't rate OIympic tennis and he has 2 golds from singles.
dapchai
Legend
Autodidactic player
Professional
To show support for the people of Ukraine and to put pressure on Putin, virtually every sport in the world, from archery to weightlifting, has banned athletes and teams from Russia and Belarus. By taking away ranking points from all the other players in a feeble attempt to "support" a few Russian and Belarusian players, tennis is a real outlier on the world stage. The fact that a Russian player will become world #1, without playing, as a result of this ill-advised decision is quite a propaganda coup for Vladimir Putin.
Djokovic2011
Bionic Poster
AO13
Hall of Fame
But what if one player defends 2000 or 1200 points, and the other defends 10 points? Are the both players hurt by this decision equally?
Indeed a million dollar question.
The Big Foe fan
Hall of Fame
The psuedo male feminist has spoken, guys.
"I follow golf very closely and have no idea how many ranking points the winner of the The Masters gets. Me and my friends love football and non of us know or care how many ranking points a team gets for winning the World Cup.
"But I could tell you exactly who won the World Cup and the Masters. I'd hazard a guess that most people watching on Centre Court at Wimbledon in a few weeks time wouldn't know or care about how many ranking points a player gets for winning a 3rd round match.
Andy Murray: Wimbledon will never feel like an exhibition; Disagrees with Cameron Norrie, Naomi Osaka
Great Britains Andy Murray takes to Twitter to voice disagreement with comments made by Cameron Norrie and Naomi Osaka that Wimbledon has been reduced to an exhibition and players may not turn up; ATP, WTA stripped ranking points after LTA barred Russian and Belarusian players
Huh....
Sampras-Bruguera 1993
Legend
Last few years its felt like an exo for Djoker LOL
And thats even more the kicker though huh? Cause the guy who's defending 2000 points is more likely to play than the dude defending 10. Because he has a chance of winning it. The ATP/WTA screwed this up big time. I don't care what anyone says.But what if one player defends 2000 or 1200 points, and the other defends 10 points? Are the both players hurt by this decision equally?
Indeed a million dollar question.
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