I think I won’t watch his matches in a while… The negativity on court really overwhelms me. Every time he loses he punishes himself and I just couldn’t watch it against Alcaraz, thinking how Carlitos looked like during Wimbledon final when things went not his way, how Jannik played after loosing a break again Djoko in a 3d set yesterday, how Holger fearlessly played Novak till the end a couple of days ago. It feels like Andrei wants it too much, he defines himself through the loses which is just painful to watch… Man, he should be proud of this season, being in the elite club of 8 best players on the planet. Really no shame in losing all matches. Even if it is painful, he should look at all the other matches he won this season and realise that losing to the best players of the season at the end of the season when everyone is tired and have their luggages almost ready to go home and chill is no shame! Is it only me who feels heavy after his matches ?
Playing the first RR against Daniil messed with his mojo. He’s been self destructing since Monday.
It’s heartbreaking. He seemed to be doing so much better with the sports psychologist. My guess is his issues require deeper psychological help than a sport psychologist usually provides. His new coping skills disintegrated under the stress of the finals. Bring in the serious help ASAP
He should get his money back. A grown man doing this in front of the world is is a lot more embarrassing than just taking a lopsided L. Seriously, if there’s sober companions, maybe there are self-harm companions in his age range that could help.
Certainly earlier this season (I think during the clay?) there were matches where I really thought he was going to lose his shit but instead he did some big puffer-fish breaths out and seemed to calm himself down instead of destroying himself. I thought we were seeing a new trajectory of ‘emotion management Rublev’ and was quietly hopeful we’d seen the last of the knee/bollock smashing episodes. Sadly this does not appear to have been the case.
Progress with mental health is rarely linear. You can have dips reminiscent of the state you began with, but the difference is they’re dips and ideally getting rarer and less severe vs being a constant state. We shouldn’t write off his effort and the work he’s doing until we see a more longterm overview.
Was so awkward, can’t imagine being in the stadium and witnessing that