Who is the Manliest Tennis Player of all Time?

Who is the Manliest Player of All Time?

  • Safin

    Votes: 54 45.4%
  • Connors

    Votes: 9 7.6%
  • Sampras

    Votes: 19 16.0%
  • Moya

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Ivanisevic

    Votes: 10 8.4%
  • Rios

    Votes: 1 0.8%
  • Karlovic

    Votes: 3 2.5%
  • Other

    Votes: 23 19.3%

  • Total voters
    119

10is

Professional
He doesn't? What do you call having several of his trashy groupies sitting in the crowd watching his matches? Safin was a known player who definitely got around quite a bit.

My, my -- what insight! Gleaned from your fine connoisseurship of tabloid fodder no doubt. After all, celebrity "facades" are unmediated reflections of lived reality. It's not as if "access to" and "perception of" their lives is influenced by superficial media narratives that consequently influence the public construction of their "image".

Point being, it's asinine to critically judge a book by it's cover, especially in the context it's location and proximity to you.

You have crap taste in men, 10is.

Why so judgemental Clarky? Maybe I'm just a slūt with daddy issues who enjoys partying with man-whōres. :rolleyes:

Somehow, you miss the hypocrisy of the following...
...only to post your own venom-overdosed attack:

An analogous retaliation is not hypocritical when it's committed with demonstrative intent.

Right, unlike the classy, sexy wholesome goodness that is Nadal who has a fetish of performing ***-to-mouth on himself in public. :roll:

LOL, you are quite knowledgeable ;-)

Thank you, however in my case mere "knowledge" is the extent of my affinity with the subject; where as you on the other hand come across as some one who speaks directly from experience. ;)


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gsharma

Professional
My, my -- what insight! Gleaned from your fine connoisseurship of tabloid fodder no doubt. After all, celebrity "facades" are unmediated reflections of lived reality. It's not as if "access to" and "perception of" their lives is influenced by superficial media narratives that consequently influence the public construction of their "image".

Point being, it's asinine to critically judge a book by it's cover, especially in the context it's location and proximity to you.



Why so judgemental Clarky? Maybe I'm just a slūt with daddy issues who enjoys partying with man-whōres. :rolleyes:



An analogous retaliation is not hypocritical when it's committed with demonstrative intent.



Thank you, however in my case mere "knowledge" is the extent of my affinity with the subject; where as you on the other hand come across as some one who speaks directly from experience. ;)


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Oh, an ad hominem attack, nice. I was just complimenting you for a fun post but after giving us a lecture about "don't judge a book by its cover", you show that you are guilty of doing so yourself.
 

kiki

Banned
Let's be honest here, none of the "big four" today rank high in this category, and the haters of each can all supply quite valid reasons as to why.

So let us examine some players throughout history who emanated masculinity to the core:

Marat Safin - This is as obvious as saying the sun is bright. Huge game, allergic to pushing, hot-tempered, openly and proudly displayed his many groupies, square-headed and broad-shouldered. A TW favourite.

Jimmy Connors - Didn't have a huge game, but compensated with his longevity and belligerence. Laid the smackdown on crybaby extraordinaire John McEnroe and never receded from visually referencing his manhood to the fans.

Pete Sampras - You knew this was coming. The slam dunk smashes say more than words ever could. Refused to grind/push, would tank unneeded return games. Massive serve, gorilla-like posture but with chest hair said gorilla could only envy.

Carlos Moya - When you picture masculinity in your head, you can't say that Carlos Moya's image doesn't occur. Thus far the only player to adopt the sleeveless get-up and retain respectability. If I needed a tennis player to pull me out of a burning building, he'd be the guy I'd call.

Goran Ivanisevic - Yes, there are some significant minuses here on account of his habitual choking, crying and double faulting, but at the same time, he is the last grand slam winner with facial hair. Also, gigantic serve.

Marcelo Rios - This is a guy, who, if his Wikipedia page is accurate, didn't take "guff" from anybody. He ran over his trainer with a Jeep, threw his wife out of a moving car, punched a taxi driver in the face and attacked the arresting officer, urinated on patrons in a Chilean bar and "allegedly" told Monica Seles to move her "fat ***" while in line for lunch. Case closed.

Ivo Karlovic - In pure animalistic terms, this guy is your true winner. In any mating competition, Karlovic would be the alpha by default. Quite simply, he's bigger, and therefore better, than everybody else.

Who else?

Borg,Newcombe,Becker,Smith,Laver,Kodes,Sampras...
 

TTMR

Hall of Fame
Lew Hoad
Pancho Gonzales
Art Tappy Larsen - and any of the WW2 generation players who saw active duty.
et.al

It can be argued that every player on the OP's list is not in any noble sense of the term, "manly".

Well, the restrained stoicism and quiet, yet genuine chivalry of a John Wayne or Gregory Peck that once bespoke manliness--gentlemanliness--has long gone the way of the passenger pigeon, not even reminisced about by the common culture. Indeed, the post-feminist New Man emulated by other men and desired by the female masses is the kind represented by the likes of Robert Downey Jr. and Charlie Sheen: flagrantly rich, triumphantly promiscuous, unabashedly narcissistic and boldly contemptuous of manner and decency.

Thus, resigned to this reality, I am, for the purposes of my thread, utilizing the modern definition in terms of personality and behaviour, coupled the with more traditional physical characteristics one associates with masculinity. With that in mind, Borg, Tiriac and Stepanek are clearly contenders for the title.
 

President

Legend
We forgot to add Tipsa.

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Credit goes to the poster bobito on TF. All Tipsarevic's quotes are real btw, which makes it even funnier.
 
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Sid_Vicious

G.O.A.T.
:lol:

^^

It would be absolutely legendary ff there was a panel about Janko injecting Nietzsche's views on morality in the conversation.
 

10is

Professional
Oh, an ad hominem attack, nice. I was just complimenting you for a fun post but after giving us a lecture about "don't judge a book by its cover", you show that you are guilty of doing so yourself.

If that was truly your intent, I apologize. :oops: However the "judge-book-cover" metaphor isn't really applicable to online textual discourse, which is a whole 'nother kettle of fish.

Suffice it to say, in this scenario, you as the proverbial author of the reply used an unfortunate choice of words which failed to generate the meaningful context you had intended, resulting in the message-level meaning being cognitively misconstrued by the recipient.

In other words, since mental phenomena like attitudes and emotions are immanently present in discourse production, you admiring my "knowledge" of a deviant sex act when parsed semantically in relation to the discourse context and wink emote, inevitably attributes a negative connotation to your reply.

Anyhoo, this is a rather trite explanation and online communication will always be fraught with miscommunication because we always have to infer the meta-communicative cues (like tone, expression etc). For instance, am I writing this as a smug, little know-it-all *****? Am I actlng like a school marm and being pedantic and accusatory? Or am I being sweet and affable, having a chat and giving you my view on something?

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granddog29

Banned
Thinking of the older players my top pick would be Newcombe or Smith. Of more recent players I would say Connors, Sampras, Rafter, or Gimelstob.

I guess of this poll Safin and Rios are good picks.
 

THE FIGHTER

Hall of Fame
Safin definitely most manly of all time. But I don't think it's right to say the current top 4 isn't manly.

Djokovic ripped his goddamn shirt in half and screamed at the crowd for 10 seconds straight when he won the Australian Open.

Nadal is by far the most physically manly tennis player we've had. Have you seen his arms?

And just because they don't play reckless, all-out attacking tennis doesn't mean it's not manly. Soldiering on out there for 5+ hours is as big of a display of manliness as anything I've seen.

andreev is more built than nadal. so is verdasco. i dont think that nadal is manly based on the assumption that he's the most physcally manly player we've ever had.
 

granddog29

Banned
Did Tipsarevic really say Agassi dissapointed him when he married Graf, there are no pretty female players other than Sabatini, and that a female Slam Champion only deserves enough pay for her ride home? What a scumbag if he did, but I guess macho in a perverse butch sense.
 

Sid_Vicious

G.O.A.T.
Did Tipsarevic really say Agassi dissapointed him when he married Graf, there are no pretty female players other than Sabatini, and that a female Slam Champion only deserves enough pay for her ride home? What a scumbag if he did, but I guess macho in a perverse butch sense.

Yup. He is an arseclown. I don't care that he does not support equal pay at Slams..thats fine. I don't like the comments he made about Graf. Who says stuff like that?
 

THE FIGHTER

Hall of Fame
:lol:

^^

It would be absolutely legendary ff there was a panel about Janko injecting Nietzsche's views on morality in the conversation.

hahahaha. that would be hilarious.

he has a point though. why not pay players the amount they're worth? exciting players who draw bigger crowds as well as boring or relatively unknown players get paid accordingly—similar to nearly all other sports. it's the entertainment business after all. :)

bad news for tipsy though.
 

BorisBeckerFan

Professional
Manliest? I don't know but my wife has never really been a huge tennis fan but would make time to watch a Safin match and to a lesser degree a Rafter match.
 

Antonio Puente

Hall of Fame
Marat Safin - just from a purely physical/aesthetic perspective he set(s) my heart aflutter like no other tennis player (including Roger). To be truly candid ( and I feel comfortable admitting this in complete anonymity) - despite being a girl who considers herself impervious to the crude overtures of beautiful yet shallow men (especially those who consider themselves "players"), I am fairly certain I would unwittingly/willingly succumb to his charms were the occassion to ever present itself. I cannot say that about any other celebrity except for perhaps Christian Bale.

Beautiful, affable, passionate and self-assured without appearing cocky - he is physically, sexually and emotionally mesmerizing. That he also appears to have wit and intelligence to boot is merely the cherry on top of a Safin sundae that I would voraciously devour! :D

Safin flashed his man card in voting to ban gays in Russia. He's certainly high on manliest list.
 

tipsa...don'tlikehim!

Talk Tennis Guru
Marat Safin -

Beautiful, affable, passionate and self-assured without appearing cocky - he is physically, sexually and emotionally mesmerizing.

The bold part is funny, my wife thinks the exact opposite, she dislikes him because he looks arrogant.
And to be honest, yes he does, just look at the way he walks between the points during a tennis match...
 

Crisstti

Legend
I can't believe Tipsarevic actually said all those things. What a complete idiot.

Why is Safin leading the poll anyway?, does being a homophobic womanizer mean he's manly?.
 
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Wim

Guest
The bold part is funny, my wife thinks the exact opposite, she dislikes him because he looks arrogant.
And to be honest, yes he does, just look at the way he walks between the points during a tennis match...


I agree with your wife! Arrogant is not manly or beautiful.
 
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