What is ONE thing about your favorite player that you genuinely don’t like?

[Nadalgaenger]

All too often, the various fan bases unite around their guy and go to war with others, trashing Their guys.

In the process, some tend to treat their favorite player like a god and never utter a critical remark.

Let’s set that aside and be honest. Can you think of ONE thing about your favorite player that you don’t like?

Possible examples:
Fed’s man bun from early years
Nadal’s predictability in interviews
Nole’s Pepe BS

 

[Deleted member 743561]

Federer winning the coin toss... and electing to receive.

 

[Federer and Del Potro]

That he wins too much

 

[Lleytonstation]

Fed stubbornness, and his scruffy no shave look.

 

[Federer and Del Potro]

Fed with a beard always needs a diaper change his attitude gets worse the more beard there is

 

[TheAssassin]

Occasional passive play, and sometimes being hesitant to go to the net after setting himself up rather well for the approach.

 

[Nadalgaenger]

Here’s mine:

Not a fan of Thiem’s haircut last year. Glad that he’s moved back to peak Fed style hair.

 

[Sport]

His serve.

 

[Nadalgaenger]

His serve.

Lol are you a Nadal or Djokovic guy? Can’t remember.

 

[ChaelAZ]

All Nadal's ticks added up can be hard to watch at times. Like, just put the frcken waterbottle down and get on court man.

 

[ChaelAZ]

Federer in interviews when he gets a little annoyed at someone questioning him and he starts always starting a response with "LOOK...". Like he is telling them fact.

 

[ChaelAZ]

Thiem is too monotone and nice at times. Fire it up man!

 

[The Blond Blur]

Nadal: wanting the indoor season ending ATP Finals to rotate the playing surface, 2 year ranking system, and lastly when he over spins the ball so it drops short/not using the DTL line fearhand enough.

I'm nothing, but fair and consistent with him

 

[The Blond Blur]

Fed with a beard always needs a diaper change his attitude gets worse the more beard there is

To be fair those things get itchy. I'm gonna shave tonight

 

[Jonesy]

Not enough boob throwing after a loss.

 

[Deleted member 77403]

He can do away with that celebration. Not exactly something I am a fan of personally.

During the match, Novak can sometimes beat himself up and get grumpy and moody with just about everything. It is such a waste of energy, and frustrating to see, especially when I know what he is capable of doing if he gets his head straight.

 

[AnOctorokForDinner]

Fedr getting tight in many a big match, sometimes salty during/after a painful loss. Stubbornerer too. I'm fine with mild degree of smugness, consider he is widely praised as the GOAT that's actually tame and decent.

 

[Lleytonstation]

Federer in interviews when he gets a little annoyed at someone questioning him and he starts always starting a response with "LOOK...". Like he is telling them fact.

" LOOK, I do not ask stupid questions like that"

 

[Federer and Del Potro]

To be fair those things get itchy. I'm gonna shave tonight

My grandma looked terrified today seeing my beard.

But she’s always terrified I’m just ugly

 

[Deleted member 77403]

My grandma looked terrified today seeing my beard.

But she’s always terrified I’m just ugly

Not possible. You have a beautiful soul.

 

[Federer and Del Potro]

Not possible. You have a beautiful soul.

Pepe approved

 

[TheAssassin]

Fed with a beard always needs a diaper change his attitude gets worse the more beard there is

Poor Mirka, just when the kids stopped wearing diapers, she needs to deal with the biggest baby of them all.

 

[Deleted member 762343]

His post-match celebration.

 

[kevin qmto]

My short list

Sam Querrey: always looks like he's smirking at some joke in his head.

Federer:

1:35 That time he got all sassy and interrupted the umpire saying "Don't tell me to be quiet, when I want to talk, I'll talk." That always sounded like something a spoiled child would say.

Nadal: I have nothing to say about nad since he's not even one of my favorite players...

Dustin Brown: When he gets moody he always looses. be it the crowd moving or a bad call. If his mental status is jarred, he then looses 100% of the time.

Baghdatis: Love him to death but that man has fallen over more times than my grandma with vertigo.

 

[NEW_BORN]

Federer's interviews. Dockiness overload.

 

[Rafa.the.Magnificent]

I do wish Rafa would lose all or at least some of his pre-serve rituals. If you look at some of his much older matches, he pretty much just got up there and served!

 

[jm1980]

Boob throw celebration and similar antics

Excessive pre-serve ball bouncing

 

[Deleted member 77403]

I do wish Rafa would lose all or at least some of his pre-serve rituals. If you look at some of his much older matches, he pretty much just got up there and served!

What do you think about how he always walks up to the T in the center of the baseline before heading back to his seat at the change of ends, even when he is walking in the opposite direction of his chair to do it? Always makes me smile.

 

[Nadalgaenger]

Boob throw celebration and similar antics

Excessive pre-serve ball bouncing

Pepe’s influence?

 

[Vamos Rafa Nadal]

That he doesn't win all the time!!!! (; (; (;

 

[Doctor/Lawyer Red Devil]

Sometimes I wish he would generally tone down with how frequently he shows annoyance after a lost point. But the thing is, if he is totally calm throughout the entire match that he is losing, it's far more likely that he won't come back.

Ball bouncing doesn't bother me. He used to be way worse than now.

 

[Goof]

Too passive of play at times and butt-picking.

 

[icedevil0289]

the fact that he makes me pull my hair out while i watch him fail to convert his 100th bp. but forreal he can be a soreloser....he's gotten better but some of those older press conferences especially back in 2010/2011 losses to berdych/novak unncessary. also this is more of a personal gripe outside of tennis but sometimes federer does his best not to rock the boat and while he can be brutally honest at times, sometimes he relies on trying to please everybody not comment when he has a lot of influence..and i wish he didn't do that. most recent example was the gimelstob nonsense...i wish he spoke up/commented more than just a vague we should move on, gimelstob was right to step down (when it shouldn;t have come down to that). ffs stan said more on twitter.

 

[Deon Sanders]

They have played the sport of clay tennis

Something that is irrelevant in the worlds important nations and detracts from his play in his main sport of tennis

 

[Rafa.the.Magnificent]

What do you think about how he always walks up to the T in the center of the baseline before heading back to his seat at the change of ends, even when he is walking in the opposite direction of his chair to do it? Always makes me smile.

Heh, that sort of has escaped me, really; haven’t ever truly made note of it. I will now though, haha!

 

[oldmanfan]

BP conversion reh-shi-oh....

 

[Azure]

Rafa - pre serve rituals really. The only other thing is he tends to hit his forehands with too much top spin. I wish he would flatten them out more. It has improved the last couple of years but a bit more.

Tsitsipas - wish he'd really not be so obsessive about winning that people can question his gamesmanship. His racket skills are far better than that.

 

[Poisoned Slice]

Can't think of anything.

 

[TheIntrovert]

Nowadays it’s how quickly he loses focus and the second set after winning the first

 

[Poisoned Slice]

 

[Standaa]

Here’s mine:

Not a fan of Thiem’s haircut last year. Glad that he’s moved back to peak Fed style hair.

His 2017 hair were great, along with that headband. THAT was the closest to peak Fed hairstyle.

 

[Nadalgaenger]

His 2017 hair were great, along with that headband. THAT was the closest to peak Fed hairstyle.

Thiem’s worst hair...

 

[Standaa]

Djokovic - As much as I dislike Kyrgios, he was right about Novak’s obsession with being liked. He tries too hard. He should just let it happen naturally, but instead, a lot of times, it seems like he decides in the moment: "Okay, I’m now gonna do something nice to get the crowd’s appeal", seems calculating, don’t know why. His complaining about the wind at this year’s RG has also bothered me. And sometimes he avoids responding questions during interviews by talking about something else. Oh, and remember that "Describe player XY with one word" video series by ATP? His answer "Respect" to so many guys was really annoying, that’s not how you describe a person.

Nadal - Lots of things, people have probably already listed them all out before me in this thread.

Federer - Literally can’t think of a single thing this man does wrong in my eyes. He’s literally the perfect tennis player and role model.

 

[titoelcolombiano]

Huge Fed fan here. It is a bit awkward that my favourite player is proclaimed GOAT despite Djoker and Rafa clearly being better players.

 

[Standaa]

Federer in interviews when he gets a little annoyed at someone questioning him and he starts always starting a response with "LOOK...". Like he is telling them fact.

He’s actually saying "Luke.." because he’s talking to Luke Skywalker every time he says that.

 

[Standaa]

Huge Fed fan here. It is a bit awkward that my favourite player is proclaimed GOAT despite Djoker and Rafa clearly being better players.

lmao

 

[rUDin 21]

As much as I love Novak, I absolutely hate that post match celebration that originated at RG 2016.If he left it only for that epic win it would be great,but no he had to continue doing that thing for 3 years now.

 

[Fintft]

Rafa - pre serve rituals really. The only other thing is he tends to hit his forehands with too much top spin. I wish he would flatten them out more. It has improved the last couple of years but a bit more.

Second that!

 

[Fintft]

Huge Fed fan here. It is a bit awkward that my favourite player is proclaimed GOAT despite Djoker and Rafa clearly being better players.

Could it be that ATP rigged the results?

After Federer does much more for tennis popularity and sales, then an arrogant guy from a country that did the shameful war in former Yugoslavia...

 

[fullwesternforehand]

Sock's attitude on court sometimes. He acts like a brat when he isn't playing well, but when he is on he is a top 10 player in the world