POLL: "The body actually feels fine from the matches" said Federer after Hurkacz defeat

[terribleIVAN]

3.07 in the video ( Wimbledon 2021 press conference)

He then said a few days ago: "I hurt myself further during the grass-court season and Wimbledon "

So, obviously, both statements can't be right at the same time.

So, did Roger pull a fast one to the whole world after all ?

Did he knowingly lie to us all ?

If yes, for what purpose ?

 

[junior74]

Haters on withdrawing from RG:

"He could at least have lied"

 

[Raul_SJ]

Was he telling the truth about his body feeling fine, or did Roger pull a fast one to the whole world ?

Fed said he felt fine after the Hurkacz Wimbledon QF.
Fed now says that he re-injured himself at Wimbledon.
He has lost all credibility.

 

[Bender]

His body was actually fine, but he was so arrogantly salty from losing that he decided to have an operation in his perfectly healthy knee just to prove a point to somebody, although we're not sure who yet

 

[weakera]

Nadal said he wasn't injured after Roland Garros too. That's what classy players do, play down their injuries instead of claiming that phantom abdominal tears will take them out of the tourney before miraculously healing.

 

[terribleIVAN]

Nadal said he wasn't injured after Roland Garros too. That's what classy players do, play down their injuries instead of claiming that phantom abdominal tears will take them out of the tourney before miraculously healing.

Rafa could have won the tournament had he not run in the one only player that had his number in that semi final.

Roger had nothing left in that Q final and even ate a last set bagel. I think he owned to the world in being truthful, especially since he was taking advantage of the COVID ranking.

 

[Raul_SJ]

Nadal said he wasn't injured after Roland Garros too. That's what classy players do, play down their injuries instead of claiming that phantom abdominal tears will take them out of the tourney before miraculously healing.

Hurkacz has developed into a fine player. May win Wimbledon one day.

Back in June, Hurkacz was still a relative unknown. The QF loss to Hurkacz was considered an upset. Fed should have been up front about the injury then.

Everybody was already wondering why he appeared to give up in the 0-6 set.

It would not have taken away from Hurkacz's victory.

Everybody already knows Hurkacz is simply not good enough to bagel a healthy Fed at Wimbledon.

 

[junior74]

His body was actually fine, but he was so arrogantly salty from losing that he decided to have an operation in his perfectly healthy knee just to prove a point to somebody, although we're not sure who yet

An amazing poast which appeals to sane and insane people simultaneously

 

[Deleted member 771911]

Yes, it was the truth. Feeling fine for him probably means pain but he can still play.

 

[weakera]

Rafa could have won the tournament had he not run in the one only player that had his number in that semi final.

Roger had nothing left in that Q final and even ate a last set bagel. I think he owned to the world in being truthful, especially since he was taking advantage of the COVID ranking.

Nadal was in no shape to play a final.

 

[terribleIVAN]

Nadal was in no shape to play a final.

He would have beaten Tsitsipas, even with one single leg and on his dying bed.

 

[MichaelNadal]

He would have beaten Tsitsipas, even with one single leg and on his dying bed.

This year I don't think so tbh. Not after slugging past Novak.
The fitness levels right now are Djokovic>>Tsitsipas>>Nadal, and that's really what it came down to.

 

[daphne]

Liar!

 

[The Fedfather]

The likely scenario is that he felt some discomfort during the match but it wasn't to the point of claiming an injury. Federer has an operated knee, and we don't know how confortable it feels normally. Maybe some pangs and aches are a regular occurence and Federer doesn't count them as something out of the ordinary. A serious inflammation would happen some time after the physical impact which is common for joint injuries. But I guess when you're only focused on disrespecting Federer, any logic that doesn't conclude he's lying goes out of the window.

 

[MichaelNadal]

Liar!

 

[thrust]

Fed said he felt fine after the Hurkacz Wimbledon QF.
Fed now says that he re-injured himself at Wimbledon.
He has lost all credibility.

WRONG! Chances are Roger did not want to take away from Hurkacz's victory by claiming he was injured, when in reality, he really was.

 

[sliceroni]

Smh. Intermittent pain is common with chronic injuries.

 

[HelenCH]

It's the same injury he had in 2016, not a third one.

 

[merwy]

He was just being politically correct. It's obvious a healthy Federer wouldn't get bageled by Hurkacz at Wimbledon.

 

[TearTheRoofOff]

Always funny seeing people sanctimoniously rummage around for the tiniest mistakes, indiscretions and embellished comments, while willfully oblivious of the multitude of more severe transgressions made by their more favoured perpetrators.

 

[Arak]

The code of tennis is that you don’t blame a loss on injury so that you don’t take away anything from your opponent’s win. Very simple.

 

[SonnyT]

The knee is as important a part to an athlete's body as any. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

 

[Rafa.the.Magnificent]

The likely scenario is that he felt some discomfort during the match but it wasn't to the point of claiming an injury. Federer has an operated knee, and we don't know how confortable it feels normally. Maybe some pangs and aches are a regular occurence and Federer doesn't count them as something out of the ordinary. A serious inflammation would happen some time after the physical impact which is common for joint injuries. But I guess when you're only focused on disrespecting Federer, any logic that doesn't conclude he's lying goes out of the window.

This is the correct answer.

 

[terribleIVAN]

The code of tennis is that you don’t blame a loss on injury so that you don’t take away anything from your opponent’s win. Very simple.

Only when the manner in which you lost clearly points to a physical injury, and you're being asked by journalists expecting an honest answer.

In that case, lying is a terrible thing to do and totally wrong.

 

[Arak]

Only when the manner in which you lost clearly points to a physical injury, and you're being asked by journalists expecting an honest answer.

In that case, lying is a terrible thing to do and totally wrong.

I have been taught since I was a kid that a real man never admits to injury and pain. That is not a lie but a sign of noble upbringing. The lie is when you say you’re injured and you’re not.

 

[terribleIVAN]

I have been taught since I was a kid that a real man never admits to injury and pain.

You've been taught wrong !

 

[Raul_SJ]

Admitting to an injury two months after the Hurkacz match does not take away from his win? Just tell the truth when everybody suspected an injury after the bagel. A Fed bagel at Wimbledon is practically a retirement.

Our Djoker tells the truth. A real man does. A real man does not say, "My body feels fine" when everybody on the planet suspects an injury.

Novak Djokovic is not sure about when and where he will play tennis again. The Serb is trying to recover from a shoulder injury that forced him to retire during his fourth round match at the US Open against Stan Wawrinka. The Belgrade native said: "I would like to tell when I will be back, but I do not really exactly know.​

 

[The Blond Blur]

He would have beaten Tsitsipas, even with one single leg and on his dying bed.

Tbh that says more about how incompetent ********** is than how good RAFA was.

 

[Rosstour]

I'm not buying the surgery stories anymore.

 

[Raul_SJ]

My friends. We are loving this poll.​

 

[Raul_SJ]

I'm not buying the surgery stories anymore.

Nobody with a brain does. Unless Fed's knee is now not part of his body.

 

[Raul_SJ]

Was he telling the truth about his body feeling fine, or did Roger pull a fast one to the whole world ?

Should have made all the poll voting public, so we can easily identify the dunderheads.

 

[aldeayeah]

His body was actually fine, but he was so arrogantly salty from losing that he decided to have an operation in his perfectly healthy knee just to prove a point to somebody, although we're not sure who yet

To the moral victory guardians, I'd expect.

 

[MeatTornado]

The likely scenario is that he felt some discomfort during the match but it wasn't to the point of claiming an injury. Federer has an operated knee, and we don't know how confortable it feels normally. Maybe some pangs and aches are a regular occurence and Federer doesn't count them as something out of the ordinary. A serious inflammation would happen some time after the physical impact which is common for joint injuries. But I guess when you're only focused on disrespecting Federer, any logic that doesn't conclude he's lying goes out of the window.

Bingo. I'm sure it's as simple as this.

He's an old man, so his body and knee in particular are always going to be sore and in pain after every match. He probably didn't know it was a real problem this time until he stopped playing for weeks and the pain still didn't go away.

 

[BeatlesFan]

Always funny seeing people sanctimoniously rummage around for the tiniest mistakes, indiscretions and embellished comments, while willfully oblivious of the multitude of more severe transgressions made by their more favoured perpetrators.

Imagine the life of the OP, no wonder such Fed-hate threads are non-stop.

"Mama, do I have permission to get on da computer today, pwease!?"

Meanwhile, a billionaire enjoys his wife, kids and billions.

 

[Aabye5]

I think perhaps he was telling the truth at the time but has since had a setback. You can't always tell when you are in the middle of a tournament because of the adrenaline.

 

[daggerman]

There's really no reason not to take him at his word. Posters on here thinking every player is some pathological liar is truly strange. His knee probably felt fine in the moment, but that doesn't mean it would continue to feel fine if he opted against surgery and decided to keep playing.

 

[jga111]

As someone who has had two knee operations and ongoing weakness on my right lateral meniscus I can honestly say to you that’s it’s always limiting and the limitation becomes normal. Then it gets worse - until you need an op. I’m sure Fed was “alright” as well as he could be but it doesn’t take a genius to see how much his movement has been restricted.

 

[tudwell]

The likely scenario is that he felt some discomfort during the match but it wasn't to the point of claiming an injury. Federer has an operated knee, and we don't know how confortable it feels normally. Maybe some pangs and aches are a regular occurence and Federer doesn't count them as something out of the ordinary. A serious inflammation would happen some time after the physical impact which is common for joint injuries. But I guess when you're only focused on disrespecting Federer, any logic that doesn't conclude he's lying goes out of the window.

Exactly. It was probably a combination of not wanting to take away from Hurkacz's win and not actually feeling the full extent of the pain yet so soon after the match. He ended up understating the severity of the injury the same way Novak, in the moment, before getting any kind of real physical evaluation, vastly overstated the extent of his injury in Australia this year. He didn't lie either – he just communicated what he felt his body was trying to say to him.

 

[Raul_SJ]

I think perhaps he was telling the truth at the time but has since had a setback. You can't always tell when you are in the middle of a tournament because of the adrenaline.

Was not even trying in the third set. A healthy Fed does not get bagelled at Wimbledon. It does not happen. Hurkasz is simply not that good. Obviously something was wrong and Fed knew. There is no way a player does not know. Should have simply said, "Hurkasz played a great match. All credit to him. My knee felt terrible in the last set. Will miss the Olympics. Gonna get it checked out."

"My body feels just fine" is just an absurd statement in the face of that third set bagel.
He misled for his own purposes.

 

[daphne]

Imagine the life of the OP, no wonder such Fed-hate threads are non-stop.

"Mama, do I have permission to get on da computer today, pwease!?"

Is this how a colony on Mars would look like?

 

[ChrisRF]

WRONG! Chances are Roger did not want to take away from Hurkacz's victory by claiming he was injured, when in reality, he really was.

If that was true, how can you say the assumption was WRONG?

It would be as @Raul_SJ said then. People lose their credibility by not telling the truth. Federer would have done that, no matter the motives behind it.

 

[SonnyT]

I have been taught since I was a kid that a real man never admits to injury and pain.

There was a time when concussion wasn't taken seriously, 'I just got my bell rung', etc. It happened to me once, even before I knew there was such a thing as concussion.

 

[Arak]

There was a time when concussion wasn't taken seriously, 'I just got my bell rung', etc. It happened to me once, even before I knew there was such a thing as concussion.

Fortunately, concussion is taken seriously nowadays and a player who is suspected to have a head injury is immediately substituted by the coaching team. Curiously, these players almost always claim they are alright and want to continue to play. But of course we don’t have such injuries in tennis, well, apart from a couple of incidents involving umpires and lines people.