Tennis Grass Court Drama 2022 | Part 05 | Sorry, Not a Spicy At All 

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I was wondering about that. im guessing the Kyrgios ones prior to the code were cut, unless he really copped a warning on the first drop lol yet Opelka was allowed to go on and on

also like some english fellas in Wimbledon xD

He is the only player that I have seen that lets everything on the court bother him to the point in which he can't focus.

People would love him if he just had a temper and argued without being a bully. But with him cursing the umpire, the spectators, the ballboys, he can be happy he has any fans at all...

He's actually a diva

Very difficult to defend Sonego here

that’s not the issue; Nadal has been a top player for most of his life; he knows he should have gotten the umpire to speak to Sonego

Anyway, we should all agree that Lorenzo's delayed grunt is unacceptable and officials should make Sonego change it.

@@AinSoph73 he did go to the umpire earlier?

@@woonhakk did he? If so I stand corrected.

Agreed. I don’t like Opelka nearly as much as I used too. He’ll bitch about anything

@@georgebrant5509 Well, at least he is right about ATP corruption.

kids in his way whatayagonnado

Poor Opelka... He thinks Centre Court is where he should be playing!!! Puffed-up EGO...

What a disgrace to pick on the ball kids. I prefer Bitchy Opelka as a tennis commentator (Laver cup)

The Wimbledon court that Opelka played is kinda too small for his size. I wouldn't want to play in the court that does not enough space and people being too near even it's 2 ft.. I wonder if he will complain if he plays in Centre Court. That's the best place to play tennis in Wimbledon and it has a lot of space for him to hit and reach for any balls within his range. Opelka did not have a good day, so he ended up blaming on the ball kids for his poor play. IMHO, the court is the problem, not the ball kids. At least, I want to see him and Kyrgios play since he respects Kyrgios and he does not call him a serve bot. Geez, what happened to him? He is supposed to be on par with the other ranked American players on the tour, but he fell off.

Hopefully Wimbledon will eventually have automatic line call like Australian and us open, do you think they’re keeping the line umpires for tradition?

@@jdmrchem5 Unfortunately, that's how the luck of the draw is. No matter the tournament there are outer courts which just aren't the size of stadium courts, which are reserved for "high profile" players who bring in the money. Move up the rankings if you want to play on the big stage, pun intended

He should have given the ball kids a code violation for standing too close.

@@Dom-yv4nq The problem is that Opelka is not as popular as the other marquee superstars. Maybe if he ever matches against Djokovic or any top player in the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th rounds, then he may see his time in Centre Court. It has so much room that he can use its size for his advantage. Opelka doesn't bring up enough money, plus people tend to not like the serve bot style of playing tennis. So, he's stuck with the smaller courts for a while. Even the US Open have smaller courts too.

He tries to be funny

@@javiert.592I really don’t like him but I found that pretty funny

That was hilarious, even the commentators had to laugh.

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Literally and figuratively

They are both idiots but Kyrgios is a way bigger manchild than Opelka. Not just that. He‘s simply an idiot!

Thank you for saying this! I’ve always felt that, and I haven’t even watched this video yet

There probably isn't a taller one either lol.

Opelka is evolving to a cry baby don’t know why it is very annoying tho

A servebot with a diva personality. The worst combination of traits possible. He acts like the tiniest of details has a huge impact on his performance, as if 90% of his game wasn't just the serve. Without it he probably wouldn't even break into the top 200

@@merijnotten5092 going full American

why u think that

He’s always acted like that lmao

It's the beard.

@@redplague probably LMAO

His pawg wife is probably cheating on him

Classless

I think Medvedev told him to leave, he didn't decide to do it on his own.

Yea definitely. I love Med and know that him and Giles have come a long way together but when players need to vent their feelings and end up doing it excessively, to the point where it hinders their performance, then the coaches should just leave. Every players yells at their coach at some point but some players, like Kyrgios, have made it routine when there are other options and better ways to deal with their distress.

@@ackermanlol why do you think that

Yet no opponent ever called him at the net to "tell him off". Nadal was totally in the wrong on that one (and he knew it, hence why he apologized after the match)

@@lormon9995 well, someone should have done that before. Nadal only said he didnt mean it with negative attitude, he didnt say he was wrong which he wasnt. You shouldnt be grunting late, Sonego is only one who does it that way.

@@TheZoGi dude calling your opponent at the net to tell him off as if he was a kid is a bad look, regardless of what he's doing. You could do that at your local tennis club maybe, not on centre court at Wimbledon ffs

@@lormon9995 well, referee didnt do anything, so someone had to 🤷 for me Sonego does that on purpose to gain an advantage due to disturbing opponent. But yeah, we can agree to disagree on this :)

@@lormon9995he is a kid and acted like one afterwards!

I like the face of Sonego while talking to umpire - "I am so innocent, Dunno what's happening and what's wrong with me"

rightttt and nadals isnt

Please, you aren't going to do a damn thing, tough internet guy.

@@dayostical go change your pad Nancy men are talking here

@@ChrisHasbrook ​ you would be disqualified if you told someone they’d get a racket down their throat. You’d be no different from Serena back in 2009. There’s plenty of other ways to deal with that situation. Rafa even apologized and realized he should have told the umpire instead of Sonego directly. Don’t get me wrong though, Sonego’s a piece of shit for grunting the way he does.

Rafael does the same

*Reilly

@@theaviator1152 Really

Bipolar doesn’t even describe him!

@Lubomir Radev Kyrgios is an embarrassment for the sport in general.

​@Lubomir Radev You need explanations? Did you not watch the video LMAO

It's called being a spoiled bitttchhh

Cannot explain how much I detest the guy. Medvedev a close second.

opelka did but u only go after nick bc its nick and u are a hater

He can find anything and anyone to blame except himself. His box for not cheering him loud enough. A spectator for coughing. A ball kid for not walking properly. An umpire for letting him challenge.

Some traditionalist Karens here

Its an absolute No No to talk to your ooponent. You cant do that, Nadal knows it. Nadal made a mistake, doesnt matter if his opponent's screams were latew.

@@frankdartagnan2709 Well the main thing here is that Sonego's timing grunts here were TERRIBLE. Officials should do something about it because Sonego does it all the time.

As if Rafa doesn't make any noise

Don’t be like that. Wimbledon is one thing sure… but you know damn well the men have gotten away with a lot worse than what Serena allegedly did in that final. The umpire would not have interrupted that match no matter what if it was Nadal and Djoko playing that final. Ridiculous. Not to mention Zverev literally abused the chair umps chair and got absolutely no ban

@@jameshampton5659 ive watched tennis since 2001, and yes some women have gotten unlucky with bad calls ..... but so have the men, and women have gotten away with bad this as much as the men. SW has frequently cursed out loud, smashed raquets, talked back at umpires before and hadnt even gotten a warning, as well as Pliskova, Sabalanka,Sharapova,Wozniacki Its not fighting for equality if you bring it up just for a get out of jail free card.

Does Kyrgios ever need a reason to be mad? He gets mad at anything and everything.

@@onyx081 Lmao Idk. In my opinion, he ends up being right more than half of the time-he just expresses his grievances very extremely. But quite often, his complaints do actually hold water to them.

He either complains that they are not cheering enough or that they are cheering too much.

The hardest part about Kygrios is that most of the time he has a point about what he's blowing up about - the problem is he carries on like a toddler and ruins his own credibility

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Its not wrong bro sonego grunted way after he hit the ball and that comppletely distracts aplayer

@@Guillermo648 Are you kidding me? Nadal is 1000000% wrong. He cannot call someone to the net to chastise them for the way they play. He acted like a diva. He can go up to the umpire, but he can’t order a player to the net. I would not have gone to that net. He’s a grown man, you can’t call up a grown man to net to tell him to change the way he plays.

This referee Liechtestein takes the side of Rafa when Rafa complains about Sonego. That tells you something about the hierarchy in tennis and the position of the referee. Rafa complaining about the noise of his opponent is ridiculous because he makes 2 times as much noise.

It's strictly against the rules to talk to the opponent and Nadal knew it. That's why he was very polite about it and apologised after. However Sonego was totally faking the grunts and acted like he got insulted by Nadal.

@@stevenz2998 Yeah, Lorenzo is a cheat, and he gives off the vibes of a entitled kiddo with the grunting.

Lets be completely honest here, every grunt a tennis player makes is fake.... Umpires should have stamped it out ages ago

Tbf grunting occurs in every sport. Just in tennis it's very quiet in the stadium so you can very easily hear it. Boxing it's easy to hear as well. Used as a breathing crutch for most athletes

Nadal was wrong but it was weak umpiring that partly caused it. The umpire should have either spoken to the player to stop it or told Nadal it was ok. He only said something to him after Nadal did.

Good on him

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To avoid misgendering and triggering the "woke"

@@Kyrelel DO you feel better now that you got to write the word "woke."

​@@Kyrelelomg, seriously? Decades if not centuries of tradition for this bullshit? Clown world...

Yes, on grass they have a much more strict standard, because it can damage the court. The best way to prevent it is to draw the line way before that happens.

It's just the rules man, if you can't control your racquet throwing them that's a skill issue on your part

@@Shabbydodo Well thanks for telling me about skills, certainly I wouldn’t know anything about tennis skills even though I’ve been playing all my life and actually just finished up my club’s annual doubles tournament yesterday (my team finished third overall in case you were wondering). Sorry, but this isn’t skill. This is emotion, and emotions are a big part of tennis, and this was not some court damaging banger, this was just a light little toss. Say what you will, but this is an umpire with a stick up his ass, no different than a traffic cop with a grudge against those with better educations who can afford nicer cars. Rules are rules, and they’re there for a reason, but as is usually the case with anything absolute, grey areas are not accounted for, and unfairness often has a healthy place in the game as a result.

@@_Simkim I understand that, but surely you can agree that this wasn’t something that would damage the court in any way, yes? Of course the rule needs to be there to address such conduct when it comes up, but in the spirit of fairness, I think umpires need to be able to exercise their own discretion and use their own common sense to distinguish between acts that do and do not deserve swift punishment.

@@Tennisisreallyfun I don't think it would be easier or fairer to leave the question of what degree of force constitutes a punishable offence to the umpire's discretion. I could understand your objection had Nishioka TOSSED the racquet, but he THREW it to the ground, lightly or not. To me, that motion in itself is clear enough to deserve the warning, regardless of the amount of force used. Which, again, cannot be easily determined by the umpire and would surely raise frequent questions regarding consistency.

Oh man I do enjoy seeing traditionalist keyboard Karens attack Nick

The thing is, Sonego often grunts more egregiously towards the end of sets. And nobody else was saying anything for that long, I assume Nadal was probably thinking that he has to be the person to do it. It’s still better to speak up late than it is to just be silent the whole time in most cases. Even if it isn’t really in Nadal’s place to do it, blatantly outrageous grunting shouldn’t just be left alone to spread itself through the game. In my opinion, a player’s duty is to beat their opponent with their tennis and their shots, *not* with the noise that comes out of their mouth.

@@theaviator1152 I understand your point but believe me, Sonego doesn’t do that for annoying his opponent. Rafa could speak to him in the locker room after the match, not after lost his serve

The Umpire should have said something sooner. His grunting is a joke. To make a grunting noise when the ball is already on the other side of the net and you opponent is about to hit the ball is a No No.

@Lubomir Radev let people say what they wish, do you play tennis?

@@lm10goat I want to give Sonego the benefit of the doubt, and yes I myself have sometimes felt the need to grunt half a second after hitting the ball, but he almost seems to do it for a drama/entertainment factor on bigger points, as if to say “look how hard I’m trying,” (Serena did this very frequently). When I think of Sonego I don’t really remember him for his tennis, I just think of him as the Italian player with the borderline-hindrance grunt. However I do know that Rafa is in the wrong-interacting directly with the opponent to voice a complaint is something you only should do in an amateur match with no officials-but at least he realizes it was wrong in that it may have hurt or distracted Sonego. Nadal also should probably be expected to mentally tough enough to just ignore the grunting and not cause any interruption to the game, but on the other hand when Nadal himself says your grunting is too much or too long, that does suggest something. I do think Sonego’s grunting is unnecessary, but I will definitely acknowledge that Nadal pointed that out in the wrong way-as he says, though, he did it in the nicest way possible that he could think of-Sonego is right too though that it was “not normal,” but there does seem to be a pattern for when in the match he chooses to grunt that way. So I do think how he defends it may be slightly disingenuous, as he acts like “oh, but I just have to do that.” I’m sure he realizes to some degree that he is kind of pushing the limit. I mean, again, some of his grunting at Wimbledon reminds me of the noises Federer and Nadal made at exhibitions 10 years ago as a *parody* of grunting. I also agree, Rafa could have waited until being in the locker room but that also probably would have been something that Sonego would mention in his press conferences and possibly start beef. Rafa likely wasn’t thinking that far ahead and just thought “I’ll talk to him briefly right now since I’m a bit bothered.”

He didn’t “smash” it. He dropped it 🙄

Ironic considering Nadal grunts the most during tennis matches

@@jaer8395 Yea he grunts a lot, but not in a way to distract opponent at the end of the match.

@@znamir1493 Nadal had 2 hours to complain about Sonego's grunting but he chose the moment he got broken to complain about it? That's just so unprofessional. Also, Nadal's grunt can also be considered distracting.

@@jaer8395 The thing is, Nadal grunts consistently. He does it almost exactly the same, same length, same loudness, etc from start to finish. Sonego doesn’t.

@@theaviator1152 No one else has EVER complained about Sonego's grunting, which he constantly does when playing. Also, why couldn't Nadal have just told Sonego to stop grunting earlier in the match, say after 20 mins or so, why did he wait until being broken to do so?

Really? He’s not in any official capacity but you think it was a “sign of respect”??!! It is a blatant sign of massive disrespect. On the womens side players like Venus, Sharapova and Azarenka all grunt/shriek but I haven’t seen any competitor walk up to them and chastise them for their grunting. Nadal is an ego maniac and I’m glad McEnroe called him out on it

@@jobuck879 I just meant talking to Sonego directly. Did I think it was a completely valid argument? No. But I see both sides. Chill out fam.

@@jobuck879 But he already spoke to the ump, so what more do you want him to do?

@@PolarBearProblems It still doesn’t matter. He can’t be so disrespectful as to tell another professional competitor how they should play. He isn’t an umpire nor a supervisor. He’s just another player. To have the gaul to approach the net and scold someone else is pathetic. And I’m not your fam.

@@kirihara147 So does that give him the right to scold another player? What’s next? If it bothered Nadal then he should still talk to the umpire not the opponent, he has no ability to do that at all. He’s not the umpire nor supervisor, he can’t dictate how the opponent plays.

It literally was though! Wimbledon banned all Russian players because of the Russia-NATO war and ATP punished them by saying no points will be awarded for wimbledon

@@robinlovestosing i know

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Djokovic was calling the ball out with the line judge, but even if he was trying to challenge, you are right about it not being counted because the ball is out

@@rafanoodles5811 Yeah, it seemed unclear whether he was saying it was out or whether he wanted to challenge.

Tsitsipas sometimes behaves very bad. Kyrgios every time he is loosing behaves bad or very bad

@@javiert.592 I haven’t seen tsitsipas acting like this circus ever

That was amazing

French is not automated either

@@henrym6758 cause an automatic system on clay is waaaaay trickier

@@henrym6758 on clay ball at least leaves a spot

@@Rhaenyra97 Problem is that most of the arguments on clay relate to whether to mark is in or out. Get Hawkeye live and those arguments go away.

It’s not the grunt itself. It’s because he grunts 5 seconds after he hit the ball. If you grunt after hitting the ball the opponent has it much more difficult how hard the ball was hit

It's about the timing. Making sound while the ball is on your side of the court is acceptable. But as soon as you grunt half an hour after you hit the ball, and it's already well on the other side of the court, it's technically interference.

@@merto6835 I totally agree with you, and tbf, I think neither of them were right in this situation, is just that Nadal complaining about a grunt would almost be the equivilant to Nick Kyrgios complaining about someone's behavior. Not saying that neither of them have the right to do so, just seems odd to me

It’s not about the volume of the grunt, it’s about the timing of it. Nadal grunts as he hits the ball. Sonego grunts while Nadal is about to hit it- it’s delayed, which can mess the opponent up. It’s called “hinderance”.

They all kiss his bum.

I think she was a climate change activist, similar to the one at the Ruud Cilic semi-final match at this year's Roland Garros.

If the umpire doesn't talk to the player, then you talk to the umpire again, not to the other player. The umpire handled it very badly, but Nadal was still in the wrong.

@@nickharland9207 He's in an important match, and if it's bothering him aka, messing with mindset and momentum, then he shouldn't have to endure that when he already stated to the umpire that his opponent was being disrespectful. He could even lose the game because of something like that, and Sonego should have been more understanding of the situation insted of taking it so personal. Yes this was the umpires fault but don't make it look like Nadal was doing something wrong when his opponent was the one being disrespectful and the umpire not handling it how it should have been.

@@pooolish334 Every player know you don't talk to the other player during a match. Even Nadal knows this which is why he admitted afterwards that he did the wrong thing.

@@nickharland9207 Yes i know that, and i know Nadal knows that as well. But as you can see he still decided to do it because it was distracting him too much. He chose his concentration and mindset over the rules. Which was my point it the first place, if something is hindering you to the extent that is throwing your game off and you did what you were supposed to do as well (wich was talking to the umpire about it) but still nothing was done about it, then you need to go over the rules to resolve it wich is what he did."It was the right thing to do even if it was the wrong thing to do", im hoping you are smart enough to understand that quote.

Cos he’s a pusher

@@brandon_den your mom is a pusher. med is a flop little boy

The umpire explained it. It's really so. That's why you can see on grass court players tend to slam the racket rather to their shoe than to the ground when frustrated.