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fritzes · 13 days

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also thoughts on jannik/carlos/holger as an entity? i know the need for constant trios in tennis is kind of annoying but they are interesting to me ok

no I totally get that, as much as I hate the need to find a "new big three", trios are SO compelling and well, the three of them have no shortage of compelling dynamics

I actually just made a post about this but carlos and holger being born six days apart is just ridiculous. there had to be some kind of fate involved because WHAT are the chances. that video of them playing doubles when they were kids is so dear to me, and I love how holger is like "yeah you could just tell we were better" because a) that's a very holger thing of him to say and b) is he wrong? no. also the way holger was defending carlos earlier this year just warmed my heart, it's always lovely to see them supporting each other

and ah, jannik and holger. "find the positives." there is not a single tennis player who manages to frustrate jannik quite like holger does and it's just so funny. obviously they had all that monte carlo drama which was just so unnecessary like??? just don't hit the ball at him??? do you know how annoying you have to be to make jannik sinner complain to the umpire. and then there was the atp finals where jannik easily could have tanked to stop novak from making the semis but instead he played an insane epic three setter, after which holger wrote a very long congratulation story and called him a "national hero." and then this year, back in monte carlo... that match had everything. and then of course there were holger's tweets, which weren't directed at jannik but he was definitely involved. they're so funny. "jesus christ 🙄"

and sincaraz. oh sincaraz. I don't think I need to ramble about this one lol, and if I did we'd be here all day

the tennis these three play, both against each other and others, is truly amazing to watch. I'm excited to see how they develop as players and as people in the years to come!

#jannik sinner #carlos alcaraz #holger rune #asks

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f1-giuki · 25 days

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ello lovie! here with a prompt suggestion for you!! you tagged your post with ‘lestappen prompt’ so my i request Them 🫶🏻 my song vibes are either bellissimissima by alfa or welcome to st tropez by dj anthoine. two very different vibes, so you choose which you prefer!!! 🩷

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bellissimissima - prompt post

Max likes Padel. Scratch that, he should rephrase it. Max “likes” Padel. Fuck, no, not even this works… Max likes Padel only because Charles plays with him. That's the truth. Sue him, he likes to see Charles smile in those little Puma shorts of his, is this a crime? Max is sure many people, including the entire Italian population, would agree with him.

He hates the bloody sport, if he has to be really honest, with those ugly courts with walls, the small rackets, the balls, which to him are just a stupid more expensive copy of a tennis ball. Max likes tennis, and Jannik Sinner lives in his building, the floor right below him, so he happily listens to the Italian Sinsplaying (?) matches and shots, so it feels familiar. Max feels like he has to protect his ginger neighbour from Padel players.

But let's be clear, Max likes to watch tennis, there's no way in hell he'd embarrass himself on a clay court for the whole world to know. He already has the padel courts for world-class embarrassment.

Unfortunately, Max also likes Charles, even if he keeps denying it and avoiding Checo's death stares after too many third-wheeling sessions, so once a month, when they're back in Monaco, he has to succumb to his heart's desires.

That's why he's currently in a town the size of a post stamp, with a stupid padel bag on his shoulders, listening to Charles charm his way into getting a padel court for the day without a reservation or giving any names. Max would like to know what the Monegasque is doing, but he has a better time staring at Charles' ass in his tie-dyed heart jeans. And he doesn't know French.

Charles also drove them there in his Alfa Romeo Stelvio. Max feels really useless.

“He said we can have the court, nobody plays padel here, the last couple of players apparently died!” Charles says, nonchalantly, leading Max to the locker rooms.

“They what?” Max asks, pushing the door open and raising a brow.

“Oh, shit, not like that! They were two old men! Anyway, nobody has come here since then, so we can have the court for ourselves!” Charles says again, taking off his t-shirt and standing in the room half-naked. Max wants to die.

“Ahah, fun,” Max shrieks, making Charles laugh. He's so fucked.

Max changes in a nanosecond, praying God Charles hasn't seen him trip on his feet and nearly fall down as he pulls his shorts up.

“Ready?” Charles asks with a soft smile after Max ties his shoelaces. He nods and they walk out to the court.

The facility is empty. Ghostly so. Max can fill it with his embarrassment and his humongous crush, there could be enough space for those two.

They get inside the court and Charles drops his bags down, taking his racket, and six balls, and putting them on the ground. He looks at Max and grins as he starts running around the court, to warm up. Max sits down and pretends to do his usual stretching session. That's obviously an excuse to stare at Charles.

That motherfucker is so pretty. Extremely pretty. Illegally pretty. He's so soft and kind, with fluffy hair, Dorito-shaped. Charles smiles at him every time he passes by and Max blushes, as Charles giggles.

After another lap Charles stops and stands in front of him, hands on his waist. His eyes are right at crotch level. Max wants to die. Charles' shorts are really short today.

“Wanna play padel or you're going to stare at my pretty face all afternoon, uh?” Charles jokes.

Max chokes on his spit and starts coughing, making Charles laugh. “Ah, fun, yeah, coming! Let me grab my racket!” Max shrieks, voice breaking in the middle of the sentence, and does his little walk of shame to his bag.

He takes out his racket and as he turns around Charles is standing right behind his back. Too fucking close for Max's liking, he can see all the moles on his face, he could do something stupid, like kissing each one of them.

“If you win today, you can take me out to dinner,” Charles says with a teasing grin.

Max likes this, even if he's blushing like a maniac and his ears are ringing loudly.

“A or V, Leclerc? I'm going to destroy you!” He mumbles, feeling as competitive as if he was on a race track.

“V, Verstappen,” Charles giggles, winking with both eyes at Max, who rolls his eyes.

“Game on, baby!”

#lestappen #lestappen wip #lestappen fanfic #charles leclerc fanfic #max verstappen fanfic #ao3 #f1 rpf #f1 prompts #lestappen fluff #lovely cha

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saragarnier · 30 days

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Number One

Pairing: jannik sinner x leclerc! Reader

Summary: y/n is Charles Leclerc’s little sister and also Jannik Sinner’s girlfriend. She went to Jannik Final in Rome, when he has the opportunity to become Number One in the ATP rankings

Warnings: none I guess. Maybe just bad English since it’s not my first language

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Being Charles Leclerc little sister wasn’t easy at all and you hated everything that was related to your brother’s fame or job. You loved him with all your heart but sometimes it was difficult being his sister, especially if everyone around you tries to be your friend just to have a chance to meet your brother.

At the same time, however, you were able to meet your current boyfriend thanks to your brother and you were grateful for that. When Charles invited you and your brothers to the Montecarlo Master 1000 final in 2024 you were excited, especially when Jannik Sinner won the semifinal.

You watched tennis since you were only six or seven years old, especially because your father and your brothers loved it. Even after your father’s death you kept watching tennis, maybe also because you wanted to feel him again, maybe because watching tennis helped you remembering him.

And that’s how you knew Jannik Sinner: you watched one of his game when he was still young but you knew that something was different about him, you knew that he would have become someone important one day.

When you met him after the final you were almost shaking and your brother Arthur didn’t help you neither: he embarrassed you even more, telling Jannik that you were his biggest fan.

You didn’t knew when you met him, nor did he. It just happened. It wasn’t planned at all.

You two met again some days after, and again and again till you started dating in secret. You both wanted to keep it a secret, to keep it private from all the fans, the journalists and the world: only your families and Jannik’s team knew about your relationship. You just wanted to live yourselves, you just wanted to know each other better before telling everyone that you were a couple. You still didn’t even admit that you loved each other when you decided to leave Imola and not to watch your brother’s race on 19th of May. It was race day for Charles but it was also Jannik’s match day and you perfectly knew that, if he would have won, he would’ve become first in the ATP rankings. And you couldn’t miss it.

You drove for hours and you were able to arrived just few minutes before the start of the match, when Jannik was still doing some warmup. He didn’t know you were there, he thought that you would have been at your brother’s race and he understood that, he wasn’t even mad at you when you told him that your brother invited you to his race. And then, that morning, Charles told you that you should have gone and that he wouldn’t have been angry with you.

You thanked him and you immediately left to reach Jannik in Rome.

You were able to enter thanks to his coach Cahill, that let you pass the security and found you a place near them, even if you didn’t want to be seen by Jannik.

“What do you mean, y/n? Why you didn’t want to be seen?” Asked his physiotherapist, Giacomo, looking at you with a confused look.

“I don’t want to distract him. He doesn’t know i’m here and there’s no time to tell him; he needs to stay focused on the game, especially today, especially when there’s being the number one in the rankings on the plate.”

They knew that you only wanted Jannik’s best and they agreed with you, that’s why Jannik didn’t know about you being there till the end of the match, when he reached his team on the stands after his victory.

At the beginning he didn’t see you, he just hugged his team, smiling, incredulous.

“Let’s go Jan!”

“Bravo!”

“Olé, Olé, Olé! Sinner! Sinner!”

The fans were crazy, they were screaming, singing and they were crying. Some kids were literally in tears, some fans were hugging each other screaming: “Sinner numero uno al mondo!” (“Sinner number one in the world!”)

It was the first time that an Italian reached the first place in the ATP rankings and Italians were going crazy, especially because he became number one in Rome, at home.

“Sei fantastico Jan! Ottimo lavoro!” Said Simone Vagnozzi, smiling at him. (“You’re amazing Jan! Good job!”)

He was too much shocked to notice you were just few feet away from him. You couldn’t stop smiling, especially watching him being so happy. He deserved all of this and even more.

Before he could see you, you stepped forward, smiling.

“So, do i have to call you champion from now on?” You whispered to his ear, gaining his full attention. He immediately wrapped his hands around your waist and he hugged you, smiling.

“Y/n! W-what… what are you doing here?!” He asked, smiling even more. “I thought you were at your brother’s race! When did you arrived here?”

You smiled, passing an hand through his hair and caressing him gently. You smiled, looking at him and feeling goosebumps under his touch.

“I couldn’t miss it, right? I wanted to be here with you and my brother understood. I arrived only few minutes before the start that’s why I didn’t tell you: I didn’t want to disturb you. I know how important it’s for you and i didn’t want to distract you.”

He was speechless: he wanted to thank you, to say something but he couldn’t. He wanted to say how he felt, he wanted to say that you were amazing and that he felt so fucking lucky to have you, but he couldn’t. He didn’t find the right words, that’s why he just kissed you.

You didn’t expect him to do that in front of everyone, in front of the fans, journalists and the tv. You knew that all the world was watching you two kissing, you knew that your secret was not a secret anymore after that kiss, but you didn’t mind. You just let him do it and you immediately kissed him back.

You loved him.

God, you loved him so much.

But you weren’t prepared for that, you weren’t prepared for what he told next. You couldn’t believe it, you just couldn’t.

“I love you, y/n.” He told you, whispering it while watching you in the eyes. He would have passed all the time there, kissing you and hugging you. There was no-one else in there except you. It was only you and him.

You didn’t know what to say or what to do, you loved him so much and you waited to hear that for weeks, but you couldn’t still believe it.

Was it true?

Was it real?

You immediately hugged him, wrapping your arms around his shoulders and hiding your face on his chest.

“I love you too, my little champion” you whispered, smiling. “And I would kiss you all the time right now, but i think you should go now. I’ll wait here for you, okay?”

Jannik smiled and nodded, caressing your cheek gently.

“Okay babe, i will come back to you as soon as i can, okay?” He said, giving you one last kiss before going back on the court to be interviewed. You smiled at him and nodded, still looking at him from distance.

“I love you and i will always do.” You whispered to yourself, since he was way too far to hear you.

And when he raised the cup to the sky you just smiled seeing how happy he was, seeing the smile he had on his face, how emotional he looked in that moment.

Number one in the world.

Number one in your heart.

#jannik sinner #atp tennis #atp tour #tennis #tennis player #charles leclerc #leclerc sister fic #formula 1 #formula one #f1 #f1 fanfic #fluff #fanfic #fiction #oneshot

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game-set-canet · 9 months

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Amazing to see your requests are open :) please may I have one with jealous Jannik! I don’t really have much context other than that… perhaps your relationship isn’t public so someone flirts with you at an event and he gets all puppy eyed sad? And you have to reassure him :(

I only see your face

Pairing: Jannik Sinner x f!reader

category: fluff

warnings: none

Author’s Note: it took me really long to write this because it honestly breaks my heart to think that Jannik gets sad 🙈 the imagine didn't work out the way I had planned it but i hope you like it, lovely anon 💕

* Y/N = your name

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The life of a tennis player is much more than playing matches and practicing every day. It also contains media work, photoshoots, sponsor events and doing things normal people don’t do. Like keeping your relationship a secret.

Jannik und you started dating three and a half months ago and you two are in a relationship for two months now. But your managers agreed that it would be strategically better to keep the relationship a secret: "We are currently looking for new sponsors, Y/N...it just works better if it looks like that you are concentrating completely and 100% on your career.”

Although you hate to admit it, your managers might be right: Apparently some people (and a lot of journalists) seem to think being in a relationship distracts you from playing tennis and no sponsor invests in distracted tennis players.

All these things mean that you had to go alone to the evening reception that the Italian sports federation organises for all tennis athletes. Usually you love events like this because they give you the opportunity to dress up and meet with all the other players off the tennis court.

You spend two hours getting ready for the evening: doing your make-up, dressing up in a wonderful dark green gown and a friend of you spend almost 30 minutes doing your hair.

You look amazing.

But you don’t feel like it.

Because you would prefer sweatpants, a messy hair bun and cuddling with Jannik on the ugly couch in your hotel room over this fancy evening event without Jannik.

Well, technically Jannik is here.

Looking really stunning in his dark blue suit. But since you are only allowed to look at him from distance and shouldn’t be near him, the evening will be anything but beautiful.

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After the official welcome ceremony you find yourself in a conversation with Matteo Berrettini, discussing the upcoming French Open, when Lorenzo Musetti joins you.

Lorenzo nods at Matteo before he turns to you and smiles broadly at you: “Y/N, you look really breathtaking tonight! The colour of your dress really brings out your eyes!”

You blink in surprise and clear your throat: “Uhm, thank you, Lorenzo…”, you feel your face heat up, “That’s really - uhm - nice of you.”

You give Matteo a help-seeking look, but he only looks at the other player, puzzled.

Lorenzo doesn’t notice your embarrassment as he continues talking while he steps closer to you: “You caught my eye the moment you walked in the room!”

You try to recreate the distance between you and take a step back, but bump into the edge of the table behind you. You can’t think of a thing to say since you are too confused: Why is Lorenzo flirting with you?!

It’s Matteo who breaks the silence: “Alright, I have to go! I need to talk with Jannik about swapping practise courts tomorrow!”, he smiles at both of you, although he still looks very irritated.

You curse Matteo on the inside: Why is he leaving you here alone now?!

Lorenzo doesn’t seem to care. He doesn’t even pay attention at Matteo and just continues smiling at you.

“And I wanted to congratulate you on winning the tournament last week!”, he runs his fingers through his hair with an elegant gesture, “You played some incredible tennis – I watched all of your matches.”

From the corner of your eye you see Matteo approaching Jannik, talking to him while laughing before nodding in your direction.

You see how Jannik's facial expressions slip away as he stares at Lorenzo and you. At first he looked very confused and a bit angry but the moment Lorenzo winks at you all you can see in Jannik's face is sadness.

“I can’t wait for Roland Garros to start! It’s gonna be one hell of a tournament.”, suddenly Lorenzo steps in front of you, “And I’m sure you will play fantastic! You always do and-“

Although you can’t see Jannik anymore, your heart still aches because of the hurt expression on his face. Without thinking twice you interrupt Musetti: “Lorenzo, this is very nice of you but please stop it.” You try to give your words a sharp but polite undertone.

Lorenzo freezes and looks at you in shock: “I…okay, I’m sorry! I didn’t want to-” He is all red in the face and smiles insecurely.

“No, it’s not that…I mean, let’s forget it, okay? I-“, over his shoulder, you see Jannik leaving Matteo and walking through the crowd to the bar, you turn away from Lorenzo, calling back over your shoulder: “I have to go, I’m sorry!”

You don’t wait for Lorenzo to answer. You rush over to the bar while trying to be as inconspicuous as possible, you don’t want to attract too much attention.

“Hi!”, you almost whisper as you join Jannik at the bar.

His head snaps up, clearly surprised about you approaching him: “Hey Y/N”, he smiles at you – although you can still see the sadness in his eyes.

You close the distance between the two of you and lean against the bar, your shoulders are almost touching. You are hesitating for a moment before you take a deep breath and look at him: “Are you…is everything okay?”

Jannik closes his eyes for a moment, pressing his lips together: “Yeah, sure, why not?”

He tries to sound completely calm and collected, but you can hear he is hurt.

You hate seeing him like this. You hate how he tries to cover his feelings.

“You know why.”, slowly you reach for his hand and hook your little finger with his.

For a second Jannik just stares at your intertwined fingers before he starts shaking his head: “There is- it’s…we shouldn’t talk. We agreed on pretending not to be…you know.”, he pulls his hand away, although you can see that he hates it.

“Jannik, Musetti was just-”

Jannik quickly interrupts you: “I…it’s ok.”, he avoids looking at you.

“No, it’s not!”, you try to lean closer to him, to tilt your head to finally catch his gaze, “I can see that it’s not.”

Only a few centimetres separate you from each other now. All you want is to hug him and tell him how sorry you are for this whole situation, that you couldn’t careless that Lorenzo Musetti was flirting with you and that he is the only one for you. Jannik seems to

Jannik seems to notice that you want to say something, because he steps aside and gives you a quick look: “Y/N, not here!”

You sigh deeply: “Ok…”

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You leave the event only ten minutes after Jannik left. It took you only 20 minutes to head back to the hotel, take the elevator and finally knock on Jannik’s hotel room door.

Jannik immediately answers the door, still in his suit – he only untied the tie, which now hangs loosely around his neck.

You just looked at each other for a few seconds before you step into the room and hug him tightly. Your boyfriend pushes the door with one hand, which quietly falls into the lock before he wraps his arms around you.

For a few minutes you just stand there, holding each other close without saying a word. You buried your face in Jannik’s chest - even though you know you'll get make-up stains on his shirt – while Jannik’s cheek is pressed against your head.

“I hated this evening!”, Jannik is hugging you even tighter now, “You look so wonderful tonight, but I wasn’t able to spend time with you at the event and I hated it so much!”, he presses a quick kiss on your hair, “Everyone looked at you and admired you and…and Lorenzo…he-“

You lift your head to look him in the eyes: “He was flirting with me, yes, but…but he didn’t-”, you place your hand on his cheek and stroke it with you thumb.

“I know, it’s ridiculous that I act like this. I’m sorry, Y/N.”, he smiles sadly and takes a deep breath, “But he wanted to ask you out on a date…I know him well enough to be sure of that!”

“And I would have said no!”

“I know that but…I hate it that he thought about it.”, suddenly his cheeks turn red, and he clears his throat before he continues quietly, “I mean…I don’t want others to…to th-think about you.”

“But you're the only one I'm thinking about!”, you reply, your voice louder than before, “Even if all the players in the whole ATP ranking would ask me out on a date, I'd only say yes to you!”

Jannik winces at the thought of that but nods a little: “I know, I know…” But he still seems to be insecure about the whole situation.

So, you take his head between your hands and say: “Jannik, look at me!”, you wait until you look each other straight in the eyes, “I mean it! There is no reason for you to be jealous of anyone!”

“I know, I know…”

“I love you, Jannik.”

Slowly a smile comes over his face and he bend down to kiss you lovingly: “I love you too, Y/N.”

After some time you break the kiss and hug each other instead. There is one thing that - in your eyes – still needs to be said: “And it’s definitely not ridiculous that you feel this way!”, Jannik grins sheepishly at your words, “I know, I would become jealous as well if someone would be flirting with you…”

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lydiamaya-main · 1 year

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Some of my favorite (mostly current) tennis players as babies (So I made these while watching Jannik play, then forgot about this💀 because I stayed awake all night watching Andy and Thanasi play. But anyway...)

Carlos Alcaraz 👑☺🧡

Jannik Sinner 🎿🦰🧡

Matteo Berrettini 😘👀💞

Casper Ruud 🤴😚💞

Rafael Nadal 👑❤

Roger Federer 👑🥲❤ (I am choosing to live in delusionland) (They pretty much look the same except a bit more sad and with less hair of course )

Stefanos Tsitsipas 📸💜

Daniil Medvedev 👑🐙💜 (He's in purple with Andrey)

Andy Murray 👑🤖💙 (Andy pretty much looks the same, just has less hair now)

Novak Djokovic 👑😐💙 (I don't know if I love him or hate him but he's here ig)

Andrey Rublev 😡🦰💛

Karen Khachanov 🥰💛

Felix Augur-Aliassime 🤩🤍

Denis Shapovalov 💢😗🤍

Ons Jabuer 👸💕💚

Iga Świątek 👑👸💚

Hubert Hurkacz 🥰😚💝 (Couldn't find any of Hubi 🙁, first one is from 2014)

Dominic Thiem 👑🐶🖤

Diego Schwartzman 🤏🖤

Naomi Osaka 👑🥰💝

Daria Kasatkina 🏳️‍🌈🐈💝

Coco Gauff 🥰💝

Alex De Minaur 😈🐀💝

Maria Sakkari 💪😍💝 (Couldn't find any of Maria either 🙁, first one is from 2015)

Sebastian Korda 🥰💝 (It got cut off but the first one is Rafa)

Belinda Bencic 💝💝

Lorenzo Musetti 👀💝 (The first one is from 2017)

Miomir kecmanovic 🐱💝 (The first one is from 2015, I think)

Grigor Dimitrov 🤑🕺💝

Thanasi Kokkinakis 👑💝

PL teams as babies if anyone is interested

Football clubs as babies if anyone is interested

F1 drivers 2022 season as babies if anyone is interested

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cissi-sh01 · 3 months

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Hiiiii I'm Cissi (new to tumblr)

Languages 🇬🇧🇨🇳🇯🇵

I some times draw

in a super long term love-hate relationship with Tennis, but quite new to F1 (started watching summer 2022)

I also watch football. But my team is doing sht recently so I am keeping some distance from them for a while for my sanity

F1 = OP81 & LN4 (I draw them), CL16/ LH44/ AA23/ PG10 (I hope they do well), MV1 (I guess its unnecessary for me to hope he does well)

Tennis = Jannik Sinner (I draw him a lot), Carlitos Alcaraz (I never draw him), Andrey Rublev (I sometimes draw him), Elena Rybakina (I try to draw her more but she is so difficult to draw), Iga Swiatek (I usually dont draw her but she saves my mental health). But I support everyone generally

#f1 art #tennis art #f1 #tennis

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bluespring864 · 4 months

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you know it’s so sad. watching early matches of novak’s for example the roger’s cup final against federer in 2007 the commentary on him and his personality was very positive. he was so smiley and adorable and even the old man commentators would point it out and talk about how lucky his country was to have a representative like him. i guess you could liken him to alcaraz with the happy go lucky attitude. breaks my heart a little to see how the (general) perception of him is now

Yeah, it's a shame. Because in my opinion he hasn't really done a lot (at least not inside of tennis... don't get me started on his politics) to warrant this perception. He sometimes has a temper on court but he doesn't lose it much more than, say, Andy (who is pretty universally beloved these days), he always applauds good shots even at crucial moments of the match, he is one of the most generous losers there has ever been in this sport (often going for a net hug with nice words for the winner, usually has very nice things to say about his opponents in runner-up speeches), most of his colleagues seem to appreciate him (Jannik Sinner for example keeps calling him Nole in interviews, if he disliked Novak as much as some of his fans do I'm pretty sure he wouldn't use his nickname? Carlos Alcaraz just spontaneously hugged him after an exhibition and had dinner with him in the middle of a Grand Slam. Andy Murray refused to say anything bad about him even during the Australia debacle and said he was supporting him when Nole was going for the Grand Slam record. Dasha Kasatkina just gave an interview where she pointed out how much the PTPA which he founded is helping players try to get somewhere with changing things in the WTA). Sometimes I really think people mostly hate him for winning so much against their faves, which they don't seem to do with other players as much.

#tennisblr #novak djokovic #i'll probably get anons again but it needed to be said #bluespring asked and answered #sorry for clogging everyone's feed with so much discourse!

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steffigraf · 2 months

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as promised here are my (brief) comments from when i woke up and watched the match recording right up to the rain delay

THAT HAND SLAP AT THE START BRB IM GONNA MAKE THIS MY PERSONALITY FOR THE NEXT FEW WEEKS

YO it’s the SECOND POINT why are you guys already intense

jannik taking the umbrella and making small talk with the ballgirl bro if she wasn’t into him before this she sure is now. i would fall immediately. hate when good things happen to other people when it shouldve been me.

“touch of class from carlos alcaraz, waiting for sinner” THATS NOT CLASS THATS DISGUSTING WHAT THE HELL. CARLOS YOUR SOTTONAGGINE (hi benny im never forgetting this vocab ty)

the way they didn’t have matching/coordinating kits for once but their jackets still match and bc of the rain we got to see it even more. nike and mother nature are lgbt allies.

#anyway. what a way to wake up fr #tennisms

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emma-radfemcanu · 3 months

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Me: 'yeah I'll get over Sinner winning the AO before Stef'

Also me: *had a little cry this morning when I saw the trophy photoshoot*

Yes I know I am pathetic lol, I wish I wasn't this upset. But I had the realisation that I'm most likely never going to see any of my faves do one of those, and that really hurt. I wouldn't mind as much if it was someone like Casper or Andrey, but I dislike Sinner so much (not because of him, because of his fans) that seeing him win a slam first has made me very upset

And of all slams it had to be that one- Stef loves Australia, there's a big Greek population there and he always says it feels like home, and seeing someone I can't stand win it first (in large part due to getting lucky with the draw and everyone else playing badly, no way would he have beaten last year's Djokovic)... I don't like it and especially as Stef has been far more consistent there, it feels really unfair even though of course it isn't :(

This is just me being bitter. I'm not saying Jannik didn't deserve to win (fair play to him for being the only one of the top 4 seeds who didn't play like shit the whole time lol), I'm just frustrated that the draw was a mess and Stef couldn't make the most of it due to coming off an injury- if he'd had that draw with the form he was in last year it would have been a very different story. It's just the way it goes, I know, but I am feeling very sore about it

And predictably the 'Stef should just retire now and hang his head in shame at everything he has failed to achieve' posts have begun. I'm trying to keep in mind that someone on reddit did a poll of ranking the top 10 by popularity and he came joint second to last... they hate him there and so it's not exactly objective but it still really hurts

#rambling about tennis again #god i am so tragic lol #crying actual tears over this is so embarrassing

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butterflyintochains · 5 months

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ATP Awards

Another amazing season is over, and yet I continue to be utterly baffled by the ATP Awards honour roll.

Player of The Year: Novak Djokovic - understandable, year end number one, runaway best player of the year, totally get it.

Doubles Team of The Year: Ivan Dodig/Austin Krajicek - again, totally get it, best doubles team of the year, even if it came down to the wire.

Ron Bookman Media Excellence: L'Equipe - fine, I suppose, I'd have given it to Cam Williams or Gill Gross myself, but okay.

Fan Fave Player: Jannik Sinner - alright, who doesn't like Jannik is the bigger question.

Fan Fave Doubles Team: Andrey Rublev/Karen Khachanov - Again, who doesn't like these two?

Arthur Ashe Humanitarian: Felix Auger-Aliassime - Very well deserved, Togo needs more eyes on it in general, so well done, mon chum!

Tim Gullikson Career Coach: Jose Higueras - Legendary coach, well earned.

Coach of The Year: Darren Cahill/Simone Vagnozzi - Okay? Medvedev won four titles in a row this year. Alcaraz won Wimbledon and was number one for a chunk of the year. Novak won seven titles including three slams at 36. Are Cervara, Ferrero, and Ivanisevic just... invisible or something? IDK, this just seems like a cop out.

Comeback Player: Jan Lennard Struff - Hate to say it, but Zverev and Monfils deserved it more, Zverev came back into the top 8 from 22 with two titles on the year after having to train on a leg scooter for four months. Monfils came back from paternity leave to win a title at 37. Again, this one feels like a cop out.

Most Improved Player: Jannik Sinner - really? I like Jannik, who doesn't? But, again, this feels like a cop out. Ben Shelton was ranked in the nineties, and is now in the top 20. Chris Eubanks was basically unranked and is now well in the top 40. Jannik entered the year as number 15, finished at number 4, a big improvement, but one would expect him to do that.

Newcomer of The Year: Arthur Fils - totally deserved, I'd have been happy with either him or Hamad, but I am very pleased that it's Arthur. He's had such a good first season, winning a title at home in France, and finally giving his much accursed country some shred of hope after two lost generations.

ITF Men's Singles World Champion: Novak Djokovic - Not a big surprise, as this one is results based. so, three slams and a final as well as the semis at the Davis Cup, this one is a no brainer.

Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship: Carlos Alcaraz - Very well deserved for Alcaraz, he's always carrying himself with dignity, and is always good to his opponents. I do hope Novak can get this one before he retires, but Carlos really does deserve it so much. Finally, the ATP get one right!

#tennis #atp tour

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