Sleeveless muscle shirts just look …unprofessional to me in a tennis tournament.

[Curtennis]

Your club sound like a dictatorship, wearing sleeveless and having problem with people who wear sleeveless goes to show how trashy your club is.
Remind me of RG administration which made rule what Serena should wear .
Trashy club, Trashy slam , trashy follower of dictatorship

Your club doesn’t have any dress code at all?

 

[mpournaras]

Maybe if Zverev bulked up a bit it could be better, but for now it does look really stupid.

His shoulders are actually huge. I dont think he is getting enough credit for that.

 

[mpournaras]

Your club sound like a dictatorship, wearing sleeveless and having problem with people who wear sleeveless goes to show how trashy your club is.
Remind me of RG administration which made rule what Serena should wear .
Trashy club, Trashy slam , trashy follower of dictatorship

Far from a trashy club. Doubt you could afford it. It’s to keep the trash out and to have some dignity and class. But you can wear your chains and wife beater.

A shirt one wears regardless of sleeves has nothing to do with how trashy they are or aren't. Get your head out your ass. Both of you actually.

Appropriate court shoes for sure... but everything else is just preference. Its a sport of sweaty amateur struggle... not a board room you goofs.

Can Zverev pull it off? I don't think so. But he is so much better than any of us at tennis we cant really say anything and mean in.

 

[NAS]

A shirt one wears regardless of sleeves has nothing to do with how trashy they are or aren't. Get your head out your ass. Both of you actually.

Appropriate court shoes for sure... but everything else is just preference. Its a sport of sweaty amateur struggle... not a board room you goofs.

Can Zverev pull it off? I don't think so. But he is so much better than any of us at tennis we cant really say anything and mean in.

I clearly said a person can wear anything he want

 

[PrinceMoron]

A few will lose their shirts betting on Zverev

 

[AmericanTwist]

Man I thought I was the only one to notice how Zverev lifts his damn shirt to reveal his abs after every single f*****g point. No dude, I don't want to see your abs at all! What a narcissist...I respect his game but not his antics. The wife beater clothing fits in well with his 70s 'stach and gold chains galore. Never mind his alleged assaults...

 

[bluetrain4]

They're fine.

 

[Tennis_Hands]

Man I thought I was the only one to notice how Zverev lifts his damn shirt to reveal his abs after every single f*****g point. No dude, I don't want to see your abs at all! What a narcissist...I respect his game but not his antics. The wife beater clothing fits in well with his 70s 'stach and gold chains galore.

He doesn't do it for that. He does it out of habit, and I bet that some of it is linked to just getting directly a bit of air. It is literally impossible that on every point end he thinks "now I am going to show the spectators my abs".

BTW, Zverev's "guns" look just fine. There are two reasons why they wouldn't work as well as someone like Blake or Nadal: He is just so damn tall, that he would literally need to have 40 lbs arms to create the same impression, and that is impossible for a high level tennis player. The other thing is that, due to his huge shoulders, his arms are "hanging" with a separation from his trunk, which makes them look smaller than they are. For example, Nadal has a small chest, so his biceps are a kind of always pressed by his trunk and made more prominent (not to speak that most Nadal pictures given around here are of him hitting the ball or vamoosing himself, which implies a flexed bicep). I have seen Nadal many times up close, and, while he is a muscular type, his arms never look huge as they do on pictures like the ones posted here.

On a separate note, Adidas is not doing a good job of the design of their tank tops for Zverev (and others). The scye is too big and the fit is not athletic enough. They should use their Techfit Sleevless fitted T-shirt, like so:

 

[Cashman]

I rip the sleeves off my shirt when I go Super Saiyan after losing the first set

 

[aldeayeah]

Only people I've seen pull off the sleeveless look are Nadal, James Blake, Monfils, and surprisingly Del Potro even though he's kinda skinny. Zverev just looks too lanky and try-hard to pull it off

Moya too back in the day. And it kinda suited Hewitt too.

 

[NAS]

I rip the sleeves off my shirt when I go Super Saiyan after losing the first set

 

[joekapa]

Nadal is/was the only one that could pull it off. Someone needs to find Zverev some sleeves along with a Top 10 Slam win

Yes well, I have always regarded him as the worst dressed of the big3.

 

[onehandbh]

A wife beater we call them, because every guy getting arrested on tv for beating his wife….is in cuffs wearing one.

This is such a bad stereotype. The blue collar guy in a white tank top. Abusers come in all shapes and sizes, social & economic status, jobs, etc. You'd be surprised.

 

[aus89]

only appropriate attire to wear at a professional tennis club... keeps the riff raff out

 

[stingstang]

If he find sleeveless most comfortable, least sweaty / restrictive etc that’s what he should go with. I’m sure he won’t lose sleep over some geek on the internet thinking it looks trailer park!

He has actually strengthened a lot recently. Building muscle with his build and constant cardio is not easy.

 

[Ace of Aces]

Like it or not anything that makes playing tennis look more like an athletic sport and less like a status symbol is good for the popularity of the game. The same way Mac and Connors being asses made the game become more popular for public court players who may not have always known which fork to use first.

 

[Tennis_Hands]

Like it or not anything that makes playing tennis look more like an athletic sport and less like a status symbol is good for the popularity of the game. The same way Mac and Connors being asses made the game become more popular for public court players who may not have always known which fork to use first.

Giving Mac as an example of the "people's champion" is absurd.

 

[Devilito]

His shoulders are actually huge. I dont think he is getting enough credit for that.

The guy is also 6'-6" He's looks way bigger in person than in pictures without comparisons. Just like bulked up turbo manlets look huge in pictures until they stand to a normal person and look like their child. Like, Joe Rogan looks pretty jacked by himself, but look at him getting mogged by someone barely over 6' tall. Imagine Zverev next to him

 

[KineticChain]

"ee gads Jeevs! would you look at the clothing on that plebeian? tennis is an elite game for the elite people. we must wear collared shirts to show that we are not poor scum. i wish these plebeians would get out of my sight." this thread

 

[Rosstour]

I have the orange sleeveless Rafa top from a year or two ago. It works on me, but you need some kind of shoulder and arm definition to make it work.

It does have a bit of an unclassy look, but only compared to a polo shirt IMO. Crew-necks look just as unprofessional IMO.

 

[MiamiWeekendWarrior]

Far from a trashy club. Doubt you could afford it. It’s to keep the trash out and to have some dignity and class. But you can wear your chains and wife beater.

1. No amount of money can buy dignity or class.
2. People who have to brag about how expensive their things are or how snooty their clubs are in order to demonstrate how classy they are end up doing the exact opposite. I can't tell if your posts are serious or are a deliberate parody of Caddyshack.
3. I'm sure people said the same about players who started wearing shorts back in the days when they wore long pants and long sleeve shirts and cardigans.
4. Do you also have a problem with women wearing sleeveless tops?

 

[norcal]

If you have a gut and pencil arms it's a bad look. If you have an athletic build it can be a very good look (and professional looking for a pro player imo).

I don't think it's fair to equate wife beaters (cotton undershirts, often stained, ill-fitting) with modern sleeveless athletic-fitted shirts. Rafa looked great, Blake looked good, Zed looks ok.
I imagine there was lots of hand wringing with the trend away from polos to crews (never understood having collars on athletic shirts but whatever floats your boat!).

 

[innoVAShaun]

I think UA should've kept it going...

 

[mpournaras]

End of an era...

 

[SeeItHitIt]

Who is UA? What did he win again?

 

[innoVAShaun]

Who is UA? What did he win again?

Robby Ginepri

Wiki: "Robert Louis Ginepri is a retired American professional tennis player. He won three ATP singles titles in his career and achieved a career-high ranking of World No. 15 in December 2005. Ginepri's best Grand Slam result was the semifinals of the 2005 US Open, where he lost to Andre Agassi."

 

[innoVAShaun]

I like it.

 

[big bang]

The ignorance in this thread is so strong..
What a ****hole snob-club, I feel like buying it and making everyone wear sleveless.. somehow Im sure People like this still wouldnt get it

 

[bluetrain4]

They look like professional athletes.

 

[innoVAShaun]

2007 USO:

 

[Rosstour]

I bought like 5 sleeveless shirts for this summer lol. Mostly old late 2000s Nadal/DelPo models.

I have henleys, crews, and classic polos too. Probably wear the sleeveless tees for outdoor tournaments at GMU.

Ordinarily I play shirtless, so sleeveless will be a step up in classiness lol

 

[graycrait]

Ordinarily I play shirtless, so sleeveless will be a step up in classiness lol

I hit with a 33 yr old guy who up till this last winter shed his shirt as soon as he walked onto the court, even faster if there were women about. This winter he gained 15lbs and when we last hit it was 75 degrees and he kept his shirt on. I mentioned his paunch and all hell broke loose. I'm 67 what is he gonna do? He started it when he called me old and fat, doesn't matter even if it is true. If he followed the obituaries like I do he would realize I feel pretty good about myself just walking onto a tennis court.

 

[Rosstour]

I hit with a 33 yr old guy who up till this last winter shed his shirt as soon as he walked onto the court, even faster if there were women about. This winter he gained 15lbs and when we last hit it was 75 degrees and he kept his shirt on. I mentioned his paunch and all hell broke loose. I'm 67 what is he gonna do? He started it when he called me old and fat, doesn't matter even if it is true. If he followed the obituaries like I do he would realize I feel pretty good about myself just walking onto a tennis court.

lolololol

 

[mavsman149]

Delpo looked fine in sleeveless, too

Blake and Ginepri also pulled it off

 

[innoVAShaun]

 

[Ace of Aces]

Anecdotally, a fair number of the high school players in my area have started going with the sleeveless shirt and chain necklace look while playing.

 

[jmacdaununder2]

presumably they're buoyed by Zverev; don't have Nadal's guns - no problemo!

 

[vsbabolat]

Personally I think it's been going downhill since they started wearing shorts...

This is "professional":

Is that a paper bag being used as a cover for the rackets?

 

[HitMoreBHs]

Is that a paper bag being used as a cover for the rackets?

The eco-brigade have been around a lot longer than the Zoomers like to believe. Alternatively, it's a concealed carry for beverages.

 

[beltsman]

2007 USO:

Yuck. Looked bad then, looks bad now.

 

[King No1e]

We live in a society

 

[mpournaras]

2007 USO:

Look at all those K 6.1s <3 @Seth

 

[tx10is]

Far from a trashy club. Doubt you could afford it. It’s

Is your club Bushwood?

I can't tell if your posts are serious or are a deliberate parody of Caddyshack.

IKR. This thread cracks me up.

 

[CHillTennis]

Wearing a so-called "wife beater" is probably not a good idea for Zverev.

Especially when you've been accused of strangling your former girlfriend.

It doesn't really do much to help his image.

 

[PistolPete23]

Far from a trashy club. Doubt you could afford it. It’s to keep the trash out and to have some dignity and class. But you can wear your chains and wife beater.

Does your club ban women from wearing sleeveless too? Because women also have BO, just sayin …

 

[guanzishou]

Ok, I might not like sleeveless but I think people can wear whatever they want... It's a free world.

 

[jorjipy]

Ok, I might not like sleeveless but I think people can wear whatever they want... It's a free world.

Not really….no one would play in a Speedo. I think it would be really comfortable and I would do it, but I know it would be frowned upon everywhere

 

[guanzishou]

Not really….no one would play in a Speedo. I think it would be really comfortable and I would do it, but I know it would be frowned upon everywhere

No one would, but they still can.

 

[jorjipy]

Yes they can! You are right! They can play in a mankini! Even better

 

[mtommer]

Far from a trashy club. Doubt you could afford it. It’s to keep the trash out and to have some dignity and class. But you can wear your chains and wife beater.

Good for you. I disagree that it looks bad or trashy. Good for me. However, to imply that the rules are to keep "trash" out, there is no trash looking to play tennis, and especially tennis at a club that requires paid memborship. Sadly, I've come across many clubs that look rundown and trashy if only because they can't sustain a solid memborship base due to lack of interest. I'd be willing to bet you pay as much as you do to keep the facility from looking trashy as opposed to keeping sleeveless "trash" out. I'd also bet the rules would change very quickly if enough people insisted on wearing a sleeveless top and offered to take their business elsewhere.