Worst excuse you’ve seen for a bad performance?

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Title says it all. What’s the absolutely laziest and worst explanation for why a player did bad or wasn’t able to win a match? While I personally believe it, I really get tired of the “2015 Nadal was at his absolute worst, of course he lost at the French” excuse. Yeah he was doing horrible that year, but still it’s the absolute clay God, not some top 100 clay courter.
 
SinneGOAT said:
Title says it all. What’s the absolutely laziest and worst explanation for why a player did bad or wasn’t able to win a match? While I personally believe it, I really get tired of the “2015 Nadal was at his absolute worst, of course he lost at the French” excuse. Yeah he was doing horrible that year, but still it’s the absolute clay God, not some top 100 clay courter.
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I mean playing bad is bad, it's not an excuse it's just a fact.
 
“She doesn't have to go to the hospital for this”

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Monoliths from the Sky
Raging Ancients
Darkness overwhelmed
Tiny sword
And Fortuna turned her back to him...

This poem is a bout a knight living in the Middle Age.
 
Didn't Wozniacki blame the flying ants for her defeat against Makarova at Wimbledon in 2018, as well as saying that her opponent was lucky?
 
SinneGOAT said:
Title says it all. What’s the absolutely laziest and worst explanation for why a player did bad or wasn’t able to win a match? While I personally believe it, I really get tired of the “2015 Nadal was at his absolute worst, of course he lost at the French” excuse. Yeah he was doing horrible that year, but still it’s the absolute clay God, not some top 100 clay courter.
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Nadal was injured noN
 
I'll have to dig some out, but for a few years some of Jankovic's excuses following defeats were pretty hilarious.
 
Krish0608 said:
By far the worst. There’s only one thing that Federer has done that I’m embarrassed about as a fan. And that is this press conference.
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Actually as putrid as he sounded professionals would agree with what he was saying. Last year in a snooker world championship match osullivan came back to beat selby and was basically potting balls off lampshades going for broke. They all went in and he won. Selby was mad and afterward said Osullivan disrespected him and the game as he was unprofessional. So there seems in professional ranks some code about playing professionally and hitting and hoping being disrespectful. Seems really odd to us amateurs.
 
Beckerserve said:
Actually as putrid as he sounded professionals would agree with what he was saying. Last year in a snooker world championship match osullivan came back to beat selby and was basically potting balls off lampshades going for broke. They all went in and he won. Selby was mad and afterward said Osullivan disrespected him and the game as he was unprofessional. So there seems in professional ranks some code about playing professionally and hitting and hoping being disrespectful. Seems really odd to us amateurs.
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Selby's butthurt was quite hilarious as well.
 
Beckerserve said:
Actually as putrid as he sounded professionals would agree with what he was saying. Last year in a snooker world championship match osullivan came back to beat selby and was basically potting balls off lampshades going for broke. They all went in and he won. Selby was mad and afterward said Osullivan disrespected him and the game as he was unprofessional. So there seems in professional ranks some code about playing professionally and hitting and hoping being disrespectful. Seems really odd to us amateurs.
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It was one shot, fed still had a match point and was serving. He completely lost the plot after that shot and couldn’t reset himself.
 
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This is known as a “parting shot” :giggle: (y) Not a partying shot like an alcoholic drink! :eek: :-D o_O:eek:
Frustration that your opponent is outplaying you! o_O
 
Phoenix1983 said:
Agassi had some memorably bad excuses.

Such as losing the 1990 FO final because he was worried about his wig falling off, and losing the 2001 QF at the same venue because he was distracted by Bill Clinton being in the crowd.
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No doubt. Nike made hats in 1990. Put one on.
 
Cashman said:
“Is injury, no?”
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TearTheRoofOff said:
Exacerbated by its frequency.
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and don't forget the 'extended special version':
injury, no? that the true... but i don't like to find excuses for my losses... so for sure right now is not the right moment to say that i was beriberinjured, no?
(did you write down that i was beriberinjured? muchas gracias... and don't forget the double-beri...... is muy important)
 
Phoenix1983 said:
Agassi had some memorably bad excuses.

Such as losing the 1990 FO final because he was worried about his wig falling off, and losing the 2001 QF at the same venue because he was distracted by Bill Clinton being in the crowd.
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well, the wig thing was only mentioned in his book many years later. He didn’t make any excuses at the time, was gracious in defeat.

and he made no mention of Clinton at all, that was just the media at the time noticing how poorly he played after that delay in Clinton getting seated. In fact he got annoyed in the press conference after when he was asked whether Clinton’s arrival distracted him etc
 
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