‘Digest It How You Want’-Andy Roddick Schools Alexander Zverev, Nick Kyrgios, Novak Djokovic, and Other Racquet Smashers With a Hilarious Video
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There has been a trend of showcasing your anger with racquet smash or hard hit on the ball. The younger generation players like Nick Kyrgios, Alexander Zverev, Novak Djokovic, and many got in trouble for expressing their emotions “inappropriately”. Former Tennis Star Andy Roddick has a solution for it.
As per Andy, there is a certain way to get the anger out of yourself. He agrees the racquet smash and ball hitting helps a bit, but there is a way to do that. He demonstrates the same in a funny video.
How to throw a racket/hit a ball in anger without getting in trouble ……. pic.twitter.com/NTz2ff55Rw
— andyroddick (@andyroddick) March 25, 2022
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Andy Roddick’s tips to Alexander Zverev, Nick Kyrgios, Novak Djokovic and others
2003 US Open winner Andy Roddick was also one such player in his playing days, who couldn’t control the grudge and used to throw racquets on the court. Surprisingly he was penalized only once in his career and he gives credit to the trick he uses to express his anger.
Andy suggests a similar trick to current Tennis stars. For throwing a racquet, Andy said, “While thowing a racquet, its beneficial to throw it face down, so like this.” After a quick demo, he justifies the reason behind it as he added, “It doesn’t go anywhere, you are not going to hit anyone. It will land (in) like a little circle of 4 ft.”
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Also for hitting the ball in anger, Roddick says that it will be useful to hit it “upwards” rather than a horizontal hit. It will surely alert people about the ball coming down and also the impact won’t be a deadly one.
The idea behind this is to avoid any contact or hitting individuals in the area. This will save some future penalties. The idea of the demonstration was funny enough, and the demo itself was much hilarious.
Alexander Zverev, Nick Kyrgios, Novak Djokovic were penalized for their “unsporting behavior”
The act of hurting anyone is punishable and people get penalties for that. Players also receive penalties as per ATP/WTA guidelines even for the unintentional act.
Alexander Zverev was slapped with a $25,000 fine along with 8 weeks of suspension for hitting the Umpire’s chair in Mexico. Nick Kyrgios was also at the receiving end for his antiques against Rafael Nadal and commenting on the Crowd with inappropriate words in Indian Wells 2022.
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Top-seeded Novak Djokovic was defaulted from his fourth-round match at the #USOpen after he accidentally hit a line judge with a tennis ball Sunday. pic.twitter.com/TTstxZB2Jw
— ESPN (@espn) September 6, 2020
Former World No. 1 Novak Djokovic also had one serious incident where he hit lady lines-umpire with a ball. He was disqualified from the match. He further got a $17500 penalty for hitting the umpire and skipping a post-game interview.
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Do you think Andy Roddick’s Tips will help players to get away from the penalties? Do let us know in the comments below.
Edited by:
Deepakshi Chaudhary