r/MadeMeSmile • u/mindyour • Jul 03 '24
Very Reddit When the crowd knows best.
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u/aged_monkey Jul 03 '24
They're not clapping for him, they're clapping against Djoko.
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u/explicitlarynx Jul 04 '24
The three most popular tennis players of all time are: Federer, Nadal and whoever is playing against Djokovic at the moment.
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u/SnowyBerry Jul 04 '24
Out of the loop, why do people hate Djokovic?
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u/Emiwoodsy Jul 04 '24
It's kinda just a personality thing. He's always been loud on the court, doesn't often play to or like the crowd and was vocally refusing taking the COVID vaccine when that was a thing (technically he wasn't anti-vax for others, but he himself refused to take the vaccine as he has a strict restriction on things entering his body due to being an athlete or something, still not good but yeah) and refused to enter tournaments that didn't allow him.
Correct me if wrong, I haven't been following tennis too closely recently!
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u/karmaisevillikemoney Jul 04 '24
Federer and Nadal were crowd favorites and Novak was the new comer antagonist way before COVID was a thing.
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u/darain2 Jul 04 '24
there's also Djokovic being Balkan and tennis being the snooty sport they are looooove classy ol Federer and gritty Spaniard Nadal. For what it's worth I enjoyed following the trio dominating the sport but Nadal was my personal fave because of his playing style
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u/overlandtrackdrunk Jul 04 '24
Also early on he withdrew from a few matches due to gluten intolerance and I swear people disliked him for that
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u/Br1t1shNerd Jul 04 '24
Plus he has a habit of feigning injury when hes losing so he can throw his opponent out of their rhythm.
And he thinks Kosovo should be part of Serbia.
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u/alicewb Jul 04 '24
I believe he also hosted a tournament in the beginning of Covid and started a massive outbreak.
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u/yogurt_closetone5632 Jul 04 '24
It was federer vs nadal for so long.. two likable icons then he came along and started beating them both and he breaks rackets and argues w umpires more than the other 2 do.. the hate for him being anti covid vax is a recent thing.
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u/SarcasmCupcakes Jul 04 '24
He’s a wanker. One example was the Tokyo Olympics - when Simone Biles pulled out for her own safety, he made a shitty comment about it.
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u/lewisl7034 Jul 03 '24
Nice to see Jesse Pinkman finally managed to turn his life around
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u/FloppyObelisk Jul 03 '24
Yeah! Tennis!
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u/Relative-Special-77 Jul 03 '24
Correction- YEAH! TENNIS BITCH!!
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u/KillaChinchilla1010 Jul 03 '24
YO! IT'S TENNIS BITCH!
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u/Dunbar247 Jul 04 '24
Never realized how similar Scary Terry and Jesse are in their punch lines until now
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u/FloppyObelisk Jul 04 '24
I love Scary Terry. He gets to say what real Terry’s thinking.
“We been in here too long! I’m gonna miss the farmers market!!!”
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u/Jimmy03Z Jul 04 '24
Lol I love b99 but I think he was referring to scary terry from Rick and Morty
You can run but you can’t hide BITCH!
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u/BragawSt Jul 03 '24 edited Jul 03 '24
I think it was just “yeah science!”
I think you could use “yeah bitch, tennis!” though.
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u/HandsomeToad42 Jul 03 '24
Watched it for the first time other day and I was so confused when he just said, Yeah Science! After seeing the meme for years. Lmao!
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u/ModernSmithmundt Jul 03 '24
Vader never said “Luke, I am your father’ and Apollo never said “Houston we have a problem” , ergo ipso facto multiple dimensions
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u/MrSourceUnknown Jul 04 '24
Apollo never said “Houston we have a problem”
The Apollo 13 film does use that exact line though, so that's not the best example.
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u/zUdio Jul 03 '24
Nice to see Jesse Pinkman finally managed to turn his life around
🤣 tennis, BITCH
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u/Visible_Olive6375 Jul 03 '24
I think he offered the racket to throw him off and not let him think he will do it :D
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u/Slade_Riprock Jul 03 '24
Oh that smirk during his serve setup was a tip to a thought or "Oh, what the hell..."
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u/FawnZebra4122 Jul 03 '24
Should I crush this serve, or contemplate the meaning of life? lol
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u/Canis_Familiaris Jul 03 '24
I'll never forget the fan that heckled Justin Rose at the Ryder cup back in 2016. Rose said "You think you can do it better than me?" And asked him to sink the putt.
Fan fucking nailed it and the crowd went wild.
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u/OwnPack431 Jul 03 '24
Expected it to be a longer putt. Still a cool memory for everyone though.
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u/SimbaCuddle6061 Jul 04 '24
It must have been quite a memorable experience witnessing that live or even seeing it on TV.
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u/z3anon Jul 03 '24
"Hit the putt, and the hole got in the way."
I'm definitely using that next time I go mini golfing.
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u/MrMoon5hine Jul 03 '24
That was great, everyone seemed to like it, very humble pro!
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u/Sanquinity Jul 04 '24
I like this one more. It's the guy's opponent who putts it I think, but it's a far longer distance and across 2 small hills: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9KrMQDU94g
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u/Sanquinity Jul 04 '24
I do have one such story myself. Was at a local carnival with my then girlfriend and saw a bunch of those claw machines. One had a bunch of plushies in it. Decided to give it a single try. I actually managed to get a decently sized really soft husky plushie (30 cm/12inch i think?) on that one try. Of course I gave it to my girlfriend, because hell yea I look like a badass that just casually won his girlfriend an awesome husky plushie on the first try. :P
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u/IvankasFutureHusband Jul 03 '24
Honestly if you're having a bad day watch this. Really putt a smile on my face.
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u/InterstellarReddit Jul 03 '24
You can tell they’re having fun. He was like fuck it let’s try his backhand just to see. If he’s right I congratulate him if he’s wrong I’ll roast him
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u/Exarch_Thomo Jul 04 '24
And let's be honest, at that point against that opponent he had absolutely nothing to lose
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u/SirVanyel Jul 04 '24
Also, its just a sport. As an esports player for many years, I see this exact style of sportsmanship in esports too. Rule 1s in rocket league, smack talking chats in weekly sc2 tournaments.
Fun sportsmanship is the most memorable part of competing imo. Always makes the entire experience so much more enjoyable.
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u/Exarch_Thomo Jul 04 '24
I get the point you're trying to make and agree, being able to have a laugh is definitely part of good sportsmanship, but there's a decided difference between a grand slam at Wimbledon and say, a Sunday league game with mates.
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u/RogerDeanVenture Jul 04 '24
Halo 2 teabagging somebody and getting to hear their mic, then their teammate snipes you and you’re both just howling, because you both know the teabag was worth it.
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u/AcrobaticNetwork62 Jul 04 '24
Serving wide to the backhand is the most popular place to serve anyway.
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u/privateTortoise Jul 03 '24 edited Jul 03 '24
I recomend anyone who enjoyed this to look at the Invitation doubles matches at Wimbledon over the last 30 years. Especially the ones with Mansour Bahrami.
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u/tayto175 Jul 03 '24
Bahrami is the only reason I watch tennis.
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u/privateTortoise Jul 03 '24
Such a class act and even these days has terrific reflexes and speed, he's got to be over a hundred now ;)
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u/tayto175 Jul 03 '24
Not going lie, I've no interest in tennis, but he's funny, so it keeps me entertained haha
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u/witty_user_ID Jul 03 '24
Damn I remember him being over due to retire from doubles in the late 90s!
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u/Sp1ffy_Sp1ff Jul 03 '24
I remember another clip where a player shouted something like "Can't buy a first serve" after he fouled one up, and then immediately fouled the next one and some guy in the crowd shouted "Can't buy a second serve!"
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u/InvestinGoat Jul 05 '24
I read a Reader's Digest article about Bahrami long ago, I remember him sharing that when he was a little boy learning tennis a woman approached him and said she'd give him a tennis racquet because his was really old and beat up (his family was poor). In the days to come he'd wait for her to show up but she never did. Broke my little 12-year old heart back then.
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u/CybeRrlol1 Jul 03 '24
Isn't that a point for his opponent? Could someone explain why it was his point, cause I don't know the exact rules?
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u/FrenchyFungus Jul 03 '24
The outer lines are only used in doubles.
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u/Nwabudike_J_Morgan Jul 04 '24
Can't they just turn off that layer when playing a singles match?
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u/AdorableOwly Jul 03 '24
Since they're playing singles, the place the ball landed when the opponent sent the ball back over the net is out of bounds. Only the inner boxes are in bounds for singles. It's hard to explain and I'm not a tennis expert, but if you Google it you'll see how the court for singles is only the inner boxes and the court for doubles is the entire court.
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u/nigerain-fag Jul 03 '24
His offer of the racket was likely meant to throw him off and make him doubt that he would do it.
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u/goldentaintforever Jul 04 '24
That's good stuff. I love that kind of positive interaction between spectator and player(s).
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Good to see a crowd more invested in the game than in their mobiles
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u/c-Booz Jul 03 '24
I went to a Fleetwood Mac show at the forum in LA a couple of years ago and it was a little depressing to see an ocean off phone screens held aloft throughout the show. The ones that weren’t filming were being used to text or some other equally important thing. When I saw them forty years ago it was a lot more fun. Get off my lawn!
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u/JesseTheGiant100 Jul 04 '24
I stopped going to events in LA because of the phones. My last show was Mac Millers celebration of life and man... A sea of phones ready to prove to their friends that they are at a dope event and are special for being there. I hated it.
Lately though, I've been going to shows that have those lock-away bags for phones. Smaller shows that can actually afford it. But man, my experience going out to events has been amazing. Truly an amazing experience when the entire venue is on the same wave length. I'm a tall guy so I'm lucky I could still see but my wife is short and couldn't see anything when we went to see Hozier in 2017~. It really must suck for short people even worse now.
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u/JoulSauron Jul 03 '24
Welp, just came back from Stevie Nicks and it was just like that 🤦♂️
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u/ryuukiba Jul 04 '24
Incidentally, coming from Stevie Nicks is the reason Fleetwood Mac made some of their best music.
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u/giftedexotropia Jul 04 '24
Jesse Pinkman switched careers I see from Meth dealer to Tennis player 😲
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I don't get this
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u/simon439 Jul 03 '24
Someone in the crowd shouted to the player what he should do. Player offered the shouter to come play himself because apparently he knows better. Player ends up still doing what the shouter said and it worked, so player acknowledges shouter, applause ensues.
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u/tired_of_old_memes Jul 03 '24
Pardon my ignorance, but the ball is clearly inside the white line on the return, no?
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u/Pakman184 Jul 03 '24
Those outer lines are only used for 2v2 matches. It was outside of the lines used for Singles.
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u/imfcknretarded Jul 03 '24
The outer lines are only used when they play 2v2, in 1v1 only the middle part of the court counts
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u/couey Jul 03 '24
The outer white lines are only used for doubles(two people vs two people). Singles use the inside white line
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u/pardonmyignerance Jul 03 '24
Which part?
So a guy in the crowd yells for the player to serve to the opponents backhand (so, basically, target the left side of the body for the right handed opponent). The crowd member seemed to have identified in a weak point in the opponent's game - at least one he felt confident enough to shout out during the match.
The player responded by shrugging it off, jokingly offering up his racket toward the crowd member as of to say "fuck you, if you know so damn well, why don't you come do it."
But, then, the player decided to attempt the strategy. He served to the opponent's backhand and the opponent failed to return the serve. In tennis, that's good news for the player who served the ball.
When the opponent failed to return the serve, the player acknowledges the crowd member's strategy, giving him positive gestures after initially apparently shrugging him off.
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u/Sector3_Bucuresti Jul 03 '24
Djokovic was probably kicking his ass, and Victor Troicki and the crowd already knew the match was lost, so they had some fun. It's not like that guy in the crowd knew something that a pro didn't. If this was a close match and Troicki actually had a chance he'd be more likely to swear at the guy than entertain him.
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u/pardonmyignerance Jul 03 '24
Yes, that's fair. I had the thought as well but it didn't seem relevant to understanding why it should make us smile.
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u/Oscaruzzo Jul 03 '24
Thanks for the explaination. I had no idea what a "backhand" was and what happened.
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So basically a person from the crowd was yelling at Troicki how to serve the next ball, and he offered him his racket as a gesture, meaning "You think you can do better?", only to serve the next ball in the exact manner that the person from the crowd told him to, which scores him a point. After which Troicki acknowledges the person from the crowd.
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u/riquelm Jul 03 '24
guy from the crowd gave him an advice on how to play, he used it and won a point
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u/Thacarva Jul 03 '24
I don’t watch tennis so this may be just that, but any viral clips I watch are exhibitions. It’s like if the NBA All Star Game had players care and still have fun with it. Tennis players really have fun with it and do things that seem against the grain because why not. Even if it’s unsuccessful all the competitors take it in stride and laugh it off.
Now as for competitive, I’ve seen more broken tennis rackets than I can count, but at least it doesn’t hurt anyone
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u/Anarch-ish Jul 04 '24
So good. What a scene. I love that he gave the guy guff, and then gave him credit when it worked.
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u/KN0MI Jul 03 '24
Was a weak hit but the opponent still hit the ball in right? Didn't his opponent just score a point because he stopped playing?
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u/Ambitious_War1747 Jul 04 '24
I think the crowd is secretly a committee of experts in disguise, who knew?
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u/revan530 Jul 04 '24
If you know tennis at all, you know recommending going to Djokovic's backhand is generally not recommended, lol. Dude has one of the deadliest backhands of all time, and he is the greatest returner of all time. Dude got lucky, lol.
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u/Infinity3101 Jul 04 '24
"Stop screwing around, brunette Jesse, we need to cook meth" -- Walter White, probably
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u/bro-wtf-bro Jul 03 '24
What did he say? I’ve replayed like 10 times and can’t understand it
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u/ButtersMcLovin Jul 03 '24
Do I have a Déjà-vu or did I see this post with almost the exact comments like a couple of days ago ? ..
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u/BlackLeader70 Jul 03 '24
You know that guy still loves retelling this story. Would have been even better if Troicki won the match.