Should Ballkids return to just being Ballkids?

[Mainad]

There are plenty of others willing to do it. Have you seen how the fans fight each other to grab the sweaty wrist bands that these players throw into the crowd?

I'm guessing that's mostly hormonal teenagers.

 

[prairiegirl]

Angry that these guys are famous and make tons more money than you ever will?

Yeah they are privileged because they are talented, and you are not.

Not as a tennis player, but as a professional singer and published author.

 

[BringBackWood]

There are some instances though where it's Japan that still seems to be stuck in a more primeval era!

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/29/world/asia/japan-rape.html

Japan is a beacon of sanity in the developed world.

 

[BringBackWood]

There are plenty of others willing to do it. Have you seen how the fans fight each other to grab the sweaty wrist bands that these players throw into the crowd?

Right, like that's a good argument for anything.

 

[Djokodalerer31]

Ballkid

NoBallkid

Sorry...had to do this! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[MasturB]

Just remember, ballgirls you see on TV... those are someone's daughters out there.

 

[a10best]

Yes, they should only be ball-kids, not handling towels (possible germ lawsuit waiting), drinks, or taking off the plastic on their rackets

 

[tennis24x7]

Agree. The image of tennis being a pampered, spoiled sissy rich kid sport has NEVER been greater. Holding umbrellas overs a player's head, taking the plastic wrap off a player's raquet, scurrying like rats to a player's side to deliver a towel so they can blow their nose in it. Getting yelled at by some players when their holinesses needs aren't immediately met. Ridiculous!!

I truly feel it is not the players but the GS events trying to one up each other by doing these ridiculous stuff.

 

[dParis]

When did the role/purpose of Ballkids change?

We have here the 1971 Wimbledon Final..

This video is like digital ambien.

 

[Fedforever]

Ha, Steve Tignor definitely owes me a credit on this article:

http://www.tennis.com/pro-game/2018...eeds-remember-ball-kids-are-volunteers/77340/

 

[Enceladus]

If the pros have to walk anywhere to get a towel then that's their choice but they'd better do it within the 25 seconds allowed between points. If they aren't capable of doing that then they will have to wipe their sweaty face on their shirt or stuff some tissues in their other pocket and wait until the next changeover to give themselves all the towelling off they need. End of.

Wiping face to shirt - I don't like it. I don't see it glad with the players. Wiping face to towel is acceptable for me. For me, let the ballkids wear towel for tennis players than that the tennis players wiping face to shirts.

An acceptable compromise would be hooks at courts, as ATP is currently considering.

 

[Bike Man]

I've wondered about this for some time now. Take Nadal, for example. Here's a guy that sticks his hand between his sweaty a55 cheeks before every point, then rubs his b@tt juiced hands all over his face. Then, prior to the next point, he wipes the sweaty b@tt juice from his face all over a towel and tosses the bio-contaminated towel to an 11-year-old. How is this ok?

 

[MaluTapiMau]

As with almost everything these days, I don't think it's possible. Most if not all matters now are abt being more and PC; more service, more scope, not necessarily more money, but more responsibilities at the end of the day.

Edit: But yes, it'll be a nice change.

 

[MichaelNadal]

I don't mind them not handling sweaty towels but eww how they couldn't sit down back in the day lol. Gross

 

[octobrina10]

I've wondered about this for some time now. Take Nadal, for example. Here's a guy that sticks his hand between his sweaty a55 cheeks before every point, then rubs his b@tt juiced hands all over his face. Then, prior to the next point, he wipes the sweaty b@tt juice from his face all over a towel and tosses the bio-contaminated towel to an 11-year-old. How is this ok?

This poster (quoted) can't take his eyes off...

 

[HetTheGreaterer]

When did the role/purpose of Ballkids change?

We have here the 1971 Wimbledon Final. Watch a game break (there's one at 3.30). The players don't even have chairs, they handle their own towels, get their own drinks, generally look after themselves as adults do.

Nowadays the ballkids seem to be expected to act as players' personal servants - fetch drinks, pick up their mess (yes, Fed, I AM looking at you), handle their towels.....

Aren't the ballkids there to help the smooth running of the game? Does it do the image of the game any favours to see ballkids having to act like Roman slaves serving the Emperor?

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[Tennease]

I hope ATP will stop towel handling by ball kids.


ATP considering rule change after Verdasco's ballboy rant
The world governing body is studying the possibility of making players take care of their own towel necessities, a move that Rafa Nadal is against.

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As.com Update: 3 October 2018 - 13:18 CEST
Video footage of Fernando Verdasco berating a ball boy at the Shenzhen tournament for not producing a towel in a time the Spaniard deemed acceptable did the rounds on the Internet and provoked criticism from Judy Murray and now, it appears, may even prompt a rule change on the part of the ATP.

The governing body for men’s tennis is looking into sparing ball boys and girls the ritual of handing over a sweat-drenched towel at every pause and is studying a proposal to install hooks on court so that players can see to their own perspiration between points.


The use of towels – a habit whose origins have been attributed to Greg Rusedski - has become ubiquitous in tennis and the Verdasco incident has lent further support to the camp in favour of relieving ball girls and boys from the duty of having them hurled in their direction every few seconds throughout a game.

@TennisTV ) pic.twitter.com/cVTHMIDrBR

— doublefault28 (@doublefault28) September 29, 2018
The move has not met with the support of world number one Rafa Nadal, whose famous on-court tics include a thorough mopping between points, even if the Spaniard is among the more polite towel-requesters on the tour. “They [the ATP] want us to be quicker between points and now it looks like we’ll have to go running off court for a towel,” Nadal said of the proposal.

 

[3lite]

I'll tell you who would say no, no?

That's not a ballkid.

That's a ball women.

 

[3lite]

I hope ATP will stop towel handling by ball kids.


ATP considering rule change after Verdasco's ballboy rant
The world governing body is studying the possibility of making players take care of their own towel necessities, a move that Rafa Nadal is against.

The move has not met with the support of world number one Rafa Nadal, whose famous on-court tics include a thorough mopping between points, even if the Spaniard is among the more polite towel-requesters on the tour. “They [the ATP] want us to be quicker between points and now it looks like we’ll have to go running off court for a towel,” Nadal said of the proposal.

Lmao.

I bet Nadal is that one kid in class who requests to take his exams in a different room from his peers.

 

[octobrina10]

I hope ATP will stop towel handling by ball kids.


ATP considering rule change after Verdasco's ballboy rant
The world governing body is studying the possibility of making players take care of their own towel necessities, a move that Rafa Nadal is against.

• 0

As.com Update: 3 October 2018 - 13:18 CEST
Video footage of Fernando Verdasco berating a ball boy at the Shenzhen tournament for not producing a towel in a time the Spaniard deemed acceptable did the rounds on the Internet and provoked criticism from Judy Murray and now, it appears, may even prompt a rule change on the part of the ATP.

The governing body for men’s tennis is looking into sparing ball boys and girls the ritual of handing over a sweat-drenched towel at every pause and is studying a proposal to install hooks on court so that players can see to their own perspiration between points.


The use of towels – a habit whose origins have been attributed to Greg Rusedski - has become ubiquitous in tennis and the Verdasco incident has lent further support to the camp in favour of relieving ball girls and boys from the duty of having them hurled in their direction every few seconds throughout a game.

@TennisTV ) pic.twitter.com/cVTHMIDrBR

— doublefault28 (@doublefault28) September 29, 2018
The move has not met with the support of world number one Rafa Nadal, whose famous on-court tics include a thorough mopping between points, even if the Spaniard is among the more polite towel-requesters on the tour. “They [the ATP] want us to be quicker between points and now it looks like we’ll have to go running off court for a towel,” Nadal said of the proposal.

No service anymore:

 

[octobrina10]

Pretty soon he'll be expecting them to perform his pre-serve rituals for him ie. wiping his face and pulling the back of his shorts out of his You-Know-Where!

I didn't know that you have a habit of creating fictional stories about Rafa!

Look at what Fed (one of your beloved players) has forced ballkids to do:

 

[Mainad]

I didn't know that you have a habit of creating fictional stories about Rafa!

Look at what Fed (one of your beloved players) has forced ballkids to do:

I'm not having a particular go at Rafa because most players are just as guilty and I certainly haven't spared Fed as you will see from my comments about him chucking water bottles about and brushing things off his chair. They have all got into this habit of treating ballkids as if they are their personal servants and I think it''s gone too far and I'm especially disappointed in Federer because he started out as a ballkid in his beloved Basel so you would think he should know better!

 

[octobrina10]

I'm not having a particular go at Rafa because most players are just as guilty and I certainly haven't spared Fed as you will see from my comments about him chucking water bottles about and brushing things off his chair. They have all got into this habit of treating ballkids as if they are their personal servants and I think it''s gone too far and I'm especially disappointed in Federer because he started out as a ballkid in his beloved Basel so you would think he should know better!

I pointed out that you posted an imaginary story about Rafa!

 

[Mainad]

I pointed out that you posted an imaginary story about Rafa!

What imaginary story are you talking about?

 

[octobrina10]

What imaginary story are you talking about?

I quoted it in my reply that is currently #121.

 

[Mainad]

I quoted it in my reply that is currently #121.

You stated that I created a fictional story about Nadal and I don't know what fictional story you are talking about. I imagined what he might expect ballkids to do next, that's all!

 

[Bartelby]

Nadal can handle life without ballkids!

 

[octobrina10]

Nadal can handle life without ballkids!

Fed, too:

 

[3lite]

Djokovic, outside of that one time his stroke accidentally sent the ball toward a ballgirl's face, treats the ballkids with the most grace and respect from what I've seen.

 

[BTURNER]

So did Suzanne Lenglen prepare and serve her own cognac between games, or was it prepared, chilled and poured for her? LOL, I am not so sure this pampering thing is all that unprecedented.

 

[Nadalgaenger]

Give me the Madrid girls!!

 

[Mainad]

So did Suzanne Lenglen prepare and serve her own cognac between games, or was it prepared, chilled and poured for her? LOL, I am not so sure this pampering thing is all that unprecedented.

Lenglen famously carried her own hipflask and swigged from it at changeovers. She didn't need a ballkid to fetch it for her.

 

[Bartelby]

Nadal autographing his 'Fed devotee' towel set.

 

[TenS_Ace]

I miss the days when the ball kids at our exclusive club would hold an ashtray for me to use between points Or was that for curling

 

[octobrina10]

You stated that I created a fictional story about Nadal and I don't know what fictional story you are talking about. I imagined what he might expect ballkids to do next, that's all!

I wonder why you haven't imagined what one of your beloved players might expect ballkids to do next:

 

[octobrina10]

Nadal autographing his 'Fed devotee' towel set.

Fed is in action here:
https://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/ind...st-being-ballkids.620368/page-3#post-12785106

 

[BTURNER]

Lenglen famously carried her own hipflask and swigged from it at changeovers. She didn't need a ballkid to fetch it for her.

I believe you! Your testimony sounds credible and persuasive on its face and thus meets my personal evidentiary burden without a link or other corroborative evidence. Or maybe I am just too damn lazy to google her

 

[Mainad]

I wonder why you haven't imagined what one of your beloved players might expect ballkids to do next:

I wouldn't imagine he would expect them to do anything. Just like I wouldn't imagine this guy would expect them to do anything:

 

[Mainad]

I believe you! Your testimony sounds credible and persuasive on its face and thus meets my personal evidentiary burden without a link or other corroborative evidence. Or maybe I am just too damn lazy to google her

At least I think that's what she did from what I remember reading about her.

 

[octobrina10]

I wouldn't imagine he would expect them to do anything. Just like I wouldn't imagine this guy would expect them to do anything:

One more picture (right) to spark your imagination:

 

[Mainad]

One more picture (right) to spark your imagination:

Here's one to spark your's:


El Siglo De Oro

España 2018

 

[Poisoned Slice]

Get your own towel bonzo.

 

[Djokovicfan]

When did the role/purpose of Ballkids change?

We have here the 1971 Wimbledon Final. Watch a game break (there's one at 3.30). The players don't even have chairs, they handle their own towels, get their own drinks, generally look after themselves as adults do.

Nowadays the ballkids seem to be expected to act as players' personal servants - fetch drinks, pick up their mess (yes, Fed, I AM looking at you), handle their towels.....

Aren't the ballkids there to help the smooth running of the game? Does it do the image of the game any favours to see ballkids having to act like Roman slaves serving the Emperor?

Pro tennis players should be treated like emperors. If you truly grasped how good you have to be and how much effort it takes to be playing on tv in one of the worlds most competitive sports, you wouldnt even consider it weird for ballboys to be giving neck massages to the players in between side changes.

 

[Tennis_Hands]

Here's one to spark your's:


El Siglo De Oro

España 2018

He doesn't speak Spanish.

 

[guanzishou]

He doesn't speak Spanish.

But he claimed he only buys Spanish products, even his computer is made in Spain.

 

[Tennis_Hands]

But he claimed he only buys Spanish products, even his computer is made in Spain.

Apparently, everything coming from Spain is superior.

 

[Fedinkum]

Those are no ball kids...

I'll tell you who would say no, no?

 

[Fedinkum]

On top of that, I still don't understand why ball kids are not paid.

 

[octobrina10]

Here's one to spark your's:


El Siglo De Oro

España 2018

Hmm. It shows that Spaniards are progressive people. But the British monarch still holds the highest position in many Britain's former (?) colonies!

 

[Bartelby]

Nadal disrobing (without Xisca):