Apologies to all Tennis officionados, i like virtually every sport , but i'm sure i'm not the only one to think that Tennis is boring - good, god, especially Womans tennis.
If you look at Wimbledon, the same people win it every year, and for the mens game its the same 3 every year in the semis. Thank god its over for another year.
Boring,boring,boring.
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I feel privileged to be able to watch 3 of the greatest tennis players of all time rather than 'bored' by them.
I loved it. You never know who's going to do well or fail at the first hurdle.
I actually found the women to be very entertaining. Less emphasis on serve, decent long rallies, largely unpredictable outcomes (Serena notwithstanding).
Today saw one of the greatest players of all time lose. Hell, I don't even like tennis much but I know enough to think it's far from boring.
Besides, it's far from the only sport to have dominant characters. Assuming you watch the premier league, it's a bit rich to call tennis a procession compared to the annual Chelsea/ Manchester coin toss.
Saying tennis is boring because the good players normally beat the worse players is like saying football is dull because good teams beat bad ones, more often than not. It's like saying 'Messi scored another hattrick/super goal... how tedious.'
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If you look at Football, the same teams win it every year, and for the mens game its the same 3 every year in the semis. Thank god its over for another year.
Boring,boring,boring.
As my son settled into the prime TV viewing seat for the final, I made a late, late bid to watch the cricket instead. Unfortunately, Afghanistan v Scotland didn’t cut it with him ... he thought I was joking.
These days, sadly, it bores me rigid. It might as well be re-named serve-ball. It seems if you are ultra-tall you can make a very good living from tennis, merely because of the huge advantage your height gives you during your service games. Some of these individuals are, otherwise, without much in the way of talent.
Tennis needs to do something it get its act sorted. I don't know what really - one serve rather than two, no net cord service re-takes, an automatically adjusting net to negate height advantage or some other form of handicapping, like a variable base line to penalise the mega-tall players, less ball changes, who knows? One thing I would do is get rid of some of the surfaces - that red clay muck is a dumb surface to play any sport at all on.