I don’t really get it, most players who act like this people wail on them. But this guy, insults camera men, breaks rackets and self-harms on court and he gets no hate. Is it because he is good looking or something? Or because he is friends with a lot of players? There are some serious mental health issues going on with him that probably needs psychiatry not just psychology.

  • estoopsBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    1. Premise of post isn’t true. Every time he acts like this there are quite literally 8-10 posts that day about it with dozens of comments all saying similar things to “he needs to get help, this isn’t okay”. Check the day of his hubi loss in shanghai.

    2. He takes it out on himself for the most part (except for that incident yelling at the camera man). He isn’t usually yelling at the chair umpire, opponents, ball boys, fans etc he’s usually just destroying his own knees which while still unhealthy is less off-putting than punishing someone else for his frustration.

    3. Off the court he’s clearly a nice, fun, mild-mannered and well-liked guy who likes to joke around. he stays in lines for a long time signing autographs and taking pics for fans, fawns over his fellow players as well as jokes around with them a lot, is clever, charming and has a god self-deprecating humor in interviews etc. So it seems clear he’s not a bad guy off the court, unlike a lot of the guys who act badly on court who have similar asshole behavior off the court.