The Most Boring game of all time

[achokshi99]

Isner has to be the most boring to watch. Looks like a genuinely great guy but wow, his game puts you to sleep. Nothing but a serve and an occasional forehand.

 

[vive le beau jeu !]

I just thought of another one I find boring and that is Verdasco. To watch him play Raonic, for me it was not a real tennis match. Just rallies, no serves. It even made Raonic leave in disgust. I'd like to see Raonic play Verdasco on a real grass court with serves.

well played post...

 

[cork_screw]

Any clay court tournament nadal enters.

 

[BreakPoint]

I find most of the players consistently outside of the top 50, boring to watch.

Interesting. I judge a player's entertainment value by how he plays the game, not by what his ranking is. In fact, to me, his ranking is irrelevant. There are exciting players throughout the rankings, just like there are some boring players throughput the rankings, including near the top.

 

[BreakPoint]

because they're fed fans going through an end of rooting life experience

What does preferring to watch paint dry instead of Nadal play on clay have anything to do with Federer? Watching Nadal on clay would be boring even if Federer never existed. In fact, it would be even more boring because he would never get to play against Federer on clay and also because he would then have even less competition on clay.

 

[obsessedtennisfandisorder]

Interesting. I judge a player's entertainment value by how he plays the game, not by what his ranking is. In fact, to me, his ranking is irrelevant. There are exciting players throughout the rankings, just like there are some boring players throughput the rankings, including near the top.

agree...

personally..can't stand isner..most boring everimho.

Honorable mentionroddick...other stuff eg time wasting/screaming at umpire
etc are other stuff

 

[nalbandian]

Nadal obvs, its way too defensive and always the same formula for winning points.

 

[PONG]

Current players only the most boring are

Murray - I only watch Murray matches when he is playing either Fed or Nadal
Soderling - So one dimensional. he hits the ball so late and with that ugly forehand
Isner - I enjoy watching serve-fests but this guy has no personality or motivation at all
Hewitt - I switch the channel when he plays
Cilic - A guy his size should not be pushing so much

 

[MichaelNadal]

Nadal obvs, its way too defensive and always the same formula for winning points.

 

[The Baseline]

Current players only the most boring are

Murray - I only watch Murray matches when he is playing either Fed or Nadal
Soderling - So one dimensional. he hits the ball so late and with that ugly forehand
Isner - I enjoy watching serve-fests but this guy has no personality or motivation at all
Hewitt - I switch the channel when he plays
Cilic - A guy his size should not be pushing so much

you're kidding me?

 

[ksbh]

You mean that all along Federer was hiding behind that thing?

ROFL X .... forget it, I'm not allowed to make derogatory remarks about Federer anymore. So ... it's his nose, not a 'thing'

Haha!

Yes, ksbh, you are a Sham-****. And he is the reason I stopped watching tennis in the 90's -- well I can't remember who exactly it was, perhaps some East European player ... one day i am gonna have to go back in time and pin down the culprit. Anyway, you get back to fawning over Sunny Deolight and Pete Sham pras, let me not hold you up.

Whatever, if it helps you get your mind off Federer for a few seconds, I'm willing to go with it! At the very least, please don't go any further and call me a Federer fan as well! LOL!

:twisted:

 

[djones]

Issner and Karlovic.
Lopez ain't very entertaining either.

 

[cocolate]

I find Ivo's serve more interesting than Nadal grinding.

 

[pc1]

Probably Karlovic but you can argue his serve is interesting.

 

[juanparty]

WOZNIACKI of course!!

 

[morten]

I actually like Karlovic, he rarely overhits and has a good slice, very different to Isner and the other big servers. Pluss he actually attacks the net a lot which i like a lot.

 

[BorisRogerFan]

You guys who talk carelessly about boring players have not had the amazing luck of watching José Higueras vs Wilander at RG circa 1983... Or the Wilander-Vilas 1982 final, for that matter... Excruciating slow tennis

 

[kangaroo1973]

Wilander was not boring. He was exceptionally smart tennis player. And his 1987 and 1988 USO matches against Lendl are all time classics

 

[Europa1]

"People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest."

-- Hermann Hesse

Hesse! Thats a name you seldom see any more. I was the model for the 1971 Bantam Siddhartha book covers.

 

[Tennfan123]

Weirdly I watched all the AO djorray finals. Hate watching really. Strangely enjoyable but needed to watch the good tennis after so put on Graf Seles RG 92 and Federer Delpo uso 09 to cleanse the tennis chakras.

 

[ChrisRF]

Weirdly I watched all the AO djorray finals. Hate watching really. Strangely enjoyable but needed to watch the good tennis after so put on Graf Seles RG 92 and Federer Delpo uso 09 to cleanse the tennis chakras.

With those AO finals it was a huge difference of watching them live or on replay. When watching live I wanted them to be close and as long as possible, just for the tension and maybe new records for match length.

But rewatching it with knowing the result is a boring as it gets.

 

[mike danny]

With those AO finals it was a huge difference of watching them live or on replay. When watching live I wanted them to be close and as long as possible, just for the tension and maybe new records for match length.

But rewatching it with knowing the result is a boring as it gets.

I feel the same way about every match I’m neutral on