02-18-2021, 07:07 AM
(02-17-2021, 09:01 PM)LP link Wrote:They are coached about when to take them, sports psychologists are part of the entourage, it's a tactic like grunting!Barty stated herself to not use the medical timeout excuse on her behalf. She dropped her bundle and was beaten by a better and more determined player on the day. It happens.
If Ash missed a trick it was taking her own medical time out when momentum swung!
One day the event will degrade into a medical intervention tit-for-tat, the tennis version of a soccer swan dive, I'm predicting this to happen between some European players and the match will be declared a nil all draw!
These are professional athletes, being paid hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars by tax payers, and they secure victory by very very questionable tactics.
Start billing/fining them for medical timeouts, maybe 10% of prize money per incident, don't bill/fine them if they retire hurt from a match. I'll predict the frequency of timeout incidents greatly diminishes because most are disingenuous.
2017-16th
2018-Wooden Spoon
2019-16th
2020-dare to dream? 11th is better than last I suppose
2021-Pi$$ or get off the pot
2022- Real Deal or more of the same? 0.6%
2023- "Raise the Standard" - M. Voss Another year wasted Bar Set
2024-Back to the drawing boardNo excuses, its time
2018-Wooden Spoon
2019-16th
2020-dare to dream? 11th is better than last I suppose
2021-Pi$$ or get off the pot
2022- Real Deal or more of the same? 0.6%
2023- "Raise the Standard" - M. Voss Another year wasted Bar Set
2024-Back to the drawing boardNo excuses, its time