Which is your least favourite tennis player and why?

Question

you can have more than one but give the reason.

Emma_86
I asked for your least favourite player but thats ok....

Answer 1

I'd like to hate Lleyton Hewitt because of what he did to James Blake and one umpire (who happened to be 'black') a few years ago. But I have seen him improve his on-court behavior so I try to forget what he did during his younger years.

Rafael Nadal is also a very intense player, to a point that he sometimes cheers for his opponents' errors, an act which does not comprise a perfect gentleman of the game.

I assume many would say Nicolar Kiefer because of his bad antics during his battle with Sebastian Grosjean some couple of months ago. However, I find him forgiveable because he is one guy who would always try his best to win a game.

It would be much easier to answer who are my favorites. Simple. Federer and Blake. Nice role-models for tennis afficionados. Mild-mannered, gentleman and good ambassadors of the game.

Answer 2

Favorite Men: 1. Roger Federer 2. Novak Djokovic 3. Juan Martin Del Potro 4. Rafael Nadal 5. Lleyton Hewitt Least-Favorite Men: 1. Nikolay Davydenko 2. Gilles Simon 3. Fernando Gonzalez 4. Andy Roddick 5. Nicolas Almagro Favorite Women: 1. Ana Ivanovic 2. Maria Sharapova 3. Elena Dementieva 4. Caroline Wozniacki 5. Victoria Azarenka Least Favorite Women: 1. Serena Williams 2. Venus Williams 3. Nadia Petrova 4. Marion Bartoli 5. Svetlana Kuznetsova

Answer 3

Jimmy Connors - noone has ever matched him at putting the ugly into "Ugly American" crowds. I respect the right of people who like that sort of thing to like it, but am enough of a purist to find it saddening myself. There is no comparing Connors' behaviour in his last big run to the US Open semis in 1991 at age 38 to Ken Rosewall's in reaching the finals of Wimbledon and the US Open in 1974 at age 39.

It wasn't necessarily their fault, but that endless string of Pete-and-Andre commercials and the way American commentators would devote 75% of their talking time to Sampras and Agassi (later the Williams sisters) as if there were no other players in a tournament didn't endear them to me.

Michael Chang's claim after the 1989 French Open that God wanted him to win just gets a pass because one can choose to believe he meant it as a healing response to the political turmoil in China at the time. Why God wanted Stefan Edberg not to have a career sweep of the four majors remains a mystery.

If one gives Lleyton Hewitt the benefit of the doubt about accusing an umpire of favouring James Blake on line calls for racial reasons, one can always take exception to his seemingly heartfelt thanks to his then-injured fiancee Kim Clijsters for sitting through the entire US Open to support him and then four months later at the Australian Open blatantly parading Kim's pregnant replacement (even though she was an Australian soap star).

It's a pity with their games that Hingis and Henin-Hardenne never took a correspondence course in graciousness.

It's hard not to blame Moanica Seles for establishing the permanency of the grunt.

Though they were frequently fun to watch on court, it was horrible sitting through an interview with either Arantxa Sanchez Vicario (possibly the only player who could ever talk faster than Billie Jean King) or Gabriela Sabatini.

Answer 4

My least favorite tennis player is Lleyton Hewitt. He acts so self centered and as if he is the best, which Federer is.

Answer 5

Lleyton Hewitt. No question. Anyone on the tour who knows him at all says he is a total jerk. Have you heard junior tennis players lately. "Come on!" is what you're sure to hear. This annoying saying is due to the famous Lleyton Hewitt.

Answer 6

Maria Sharapova tops them all. She is arrogant, self centered, disrespect & always bad mouth the other players, in the Press, loud as a super sonic jet engine, has evil eyes & looks, in it for the money, as she told the News Media to show her the money, Giant for a girl at 6 3", she think she is the queen of beauty , slick & tricks other players like prettending that she needs a bathroom break, when she is losing or prettend she is not ready to recieve serve when her opponent is about to serve, just to break her concentration, a liar too as she distracted Peer from serving ,at Lenz, but told the Chair Empire that she did not, when the replay Camera showed that she did. Her mentally disturbed father. Lot of things that i could go on & on , on her. Nothing to like about even her tennis cuz she uses her Giant body in hitting & has only one game plan,..hit hard. She will not last for long as a tennis player. She will be as Kurnakova. In it for the money, then modeling.

Answer 7

I don't like JHH unfortunately because she has a great game. I respect her but it's difficult to like her attitude and character. Especially in her match against Mauresmo in the AO final that was the worst!
Hewitt is such an idiot and a scaredy cat. He was getting involved with vocal exchanges with Argentines and when he travelled to Argentina he was hiding behind his bodyguards like a little kid!

Answer 8

Firstly GoldenGal, to compare Sharapova and her commitment to tennis, to kournikova and her commitment to tennis...is like comparing black and white...complete opposites, and since I'm pretty sure you know which 1 of them has won 2grand slam titles, you know which 1 is more commited to tennis and which to tennis.

My least fave player is Nadal, I think he has a great game,but in my opinion his fist pumping, and jock-being spoils an otherwise beautiful game. Oh yes, and when he plays I understand that people say tennis is boring, cause he takes like 5 minutes to serve.

Can someone please tell me what Hewitt did to Blake?

Answer 9

Roger Federer he is the best player I ever saw.
and Safin is good too.

Answer 10

there are many tennis players who are my least favourite.
I can't say.