Week 26 - Belgium F2 ($10,000) - Havré (Clay)

paulisi · Tennis legend

RE: Week 26 - Belgium F2 ($10,000) - Havré (Clay)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Westerhof takes the second set by 7-6(6). cry

paulisi · Tennis legend

Boy oh Boy - Oli makes life difficult for himself.

Come on Oli.

steven · Tennis legend

Now *0-3 down in the 3rd

Tennis36 · Masters Series Champion

did he have any match points or anything in the second?

steven · Tennis legend

Impossible to tell, I'm afraid - it was already one set all when I first checked.

Now *1-4 in the 3rd - still only one break down but not many chances left to break back.

paulisi · Tennis legend

I missed it as well, he was chasing for most of the set and it was 6-6 in the tie break when i checked

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

QF: (1) Boy Westerhof (NED) WR 235 defeated Oli Golding WR 529 by 3-6 7-6(6) 6-3 cry

RJA · Hall of fame

Post match tweets from Oli

What an absolute joke

6-3 5-4 15-40 up with the guy tanking and he just tees a winner then gets a net-chord in his favour, starts trying, plays a joke. Beats me.

Never wanted to beat someone more than that! Told me in the 2nd set, "how bad are u? Im tanking and still a break up". So angry right now!!!

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

RJA wrote:
Post match tweets from Oli

What an absolute joke

6-3 5-4 15-40 up with the guy tanking and he just tees a winner then gets a net-chord in his favour, starts trying, plays a joke. Beats me.

Never wanted to beat someone more than that! Told me in the 2nd set, "how bad are u? Im tanking and still a break up". So angry right now!!!

You beat me to it RJA - as always. Was just going to post the same.

Perhaps the reason the other guy was "winding Oli up" is because he knows he easy it is to "wind Oli up". Perhaps if Oli were to hold his emotions in check a little more (or at least release them in a more private environment), then maybe people wouldn't try to take so much advantage of his apparent volatility.

RJA · Hall of fame

He has now deleted the last of the three tweets.

steven · Tennis legend

Hmph - don't remove tweets that have been replied to, Oli LOL ... I can see why he did though - it didn't make him or his opponent look too good!

If what I said counts as 'advice,' I'm sure his coaches etc must have said the same kind of thing plenty of times before. It's definitely hard sometimes when opponents don't seem to care about anything except winding you up (whether that be in tennis or any other field) but denying them the satisfaction of it working is the only way to fight back.

korriban · Challenger level

Extraordinary! With respect, this is "maturity of a 13 year old" stuff!

Can someone tell him this is professional sport, where people do whatever it takes to win. "It's not personal", as Michael Corleone would say, "it's just business". At the end of the day, Oli lost. That's what appears on the record sheets.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

RJA wrote:
Post match tweets from Oli

What an absolute joke

6-3 5-4 15-40 up with the guy tanking and he just tees a winner then gets a net-chord in his favour, starts trying, plays a joke. Beats me.

Never wanted to beat someone more than that! Told me in the 2nd set, "how bad are u? Im tanking and still a break up". So angry right now!!!

Oh, blimey, grow up lad.

korriban · Challenger level

RJA wrote:
If I was to be unusually generous to Oli I would admit that at his age I had similar feelings after certain events but fortunately I didn't have the opportunity that twitter provides to display my immaturity to such a wide audience. Of course Oli is in a very different position to me in that he is allegedly a professional sportsman, or at very least aspires to be one.

I have lost count of the number of times almost every ex-professional pundit on TV, radio and press confirms the obvious truth that being a top 50 player is 20% about forehands and backhands (most pros are pretty good at tennis!), and 80% about what work players do off the court and what is between their ears. Matchplay is not the same as a practice set. How many spats is Oli going to get into before he realises that the opposition is merely acting in a rational way to beat him. If his temperament is his biggest weakness, and by now half the tennis world (well the average players, since this is Futures) is aware of it, having lost a set, why would any opponent NOT try to wind him up.

It seems to work a treat.

Can somebody tell me how much money has been gifted to him this season alone for coaching, fitness, medical, travel, hotels, equipment, etc.......noting that all of these generous benefactors can see his public rants, and therefore see where their money is going. This is bordering on extreme self-indulgence IMO

-- Edited by korriban on Friday 28th of June 2013 06:16:52 AM