Current world no. 1 and world no. 2—Serbian Novak Djokovic and Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz—are waiting to explode on the Indian Wells Tennis Garden courts. On the sidelines, though, since tennis madness has dawned upon the Americans, the sport is being stacked against anything made in the USA by the fans.

Djokovic and Alcaraz are not short athletes by any means. However, they were still ridiculed on Reddit by the users for their height difference when compared to NBA players.

In a recent post on a subreddit named Tennis News & Discussion, the two tennis stars were trolled for looking significantly shorter in height than the basketball players they posed with in their Instagram posts.

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In the first picture, Djokovic (6’2″ is seen posing with Serbian basketball player Nikola Jokic, who plays for the Denver Nuggets in the NBA. Along with them are Marko Jaric, a former Serbian basketball player (6’7”, Vlade Divac, a professional basketball executive and former player (7’1″, and Aleksander “Sasha” Vujačić, a Slovenian former professional basketball player (6’7″.

Out of the other two pictures, one is of Alcaraz with Pau Gasol, a Spanish former professional basketball player and two-time NBA champion with the LA Lakers. The last picture is of Alcaraz’s coach, Juan Carlos Ferrero, also with Pau Gasol.

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The fans got too excited, and left a plethora of reactions on the social media post! Let us take a look at some of the comments left by the fans.

Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz Trolled For Being ‘Short’

One user compared their height to that of American tennis player, Reilly Opelka who is 6’9″ himself, and cuts out a towering figure on the court.

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Another user, Compared Djokovic’s picture to that of Lord of the Rings, where they used a certain filmmaking technique to make Dwarves and Hobbits look smaller than other characters.

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One fan was found swooning over the former Spanish NBA champion Pau Gasol’s looks.

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There were even some fans who couldn’t fathom the one-foot height difference and found it amusing.

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One user rhetorically asked about their height.

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To which he got an answer he wasn’t expecting.

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Now tennis is not known to be a short athlete’s game as most of the players would be considered ‘tall’ but comparing them to NBA players is a bit of a stretch, isn’t it? let us know your thoughts in the comment section.