The Tennis Thread

The story of Wimbledon so far is the amazing character Christopher Eubanks, what a win and match against Tsitsipas , Fantastic!!!!
Match played in Great spirit, it had everything, brilliant to reach last 8 here on your debut, a certain Swedish Mega Legend did that!

 

Quite glad Tsitsipas is papped oot. Guy is a fud.

 

Somebody, please, explain me this scene:

 

The conspiracy is that it's his team giving him some sort of PEDs. The other plausible idea is that it's some sort of sports drink. I don't think his team would risk giving him PEDs in public view, during a match. He's never failed a drugs test either.

 

No wonder Nole won everything!

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One would've suggested, there's no need for delivering a "sports drink" in this manner.

 

It's pretty common in tennis for players to have different types of drinks for different periods in a match, depending on what their body needs at that point.

 

Did you watch the actual video?

 

Rune looks a cracking player btw

As for Novak doping I've always said that a big doping scandal regarding him and Nadal wouldn't shock me

 

Hard to see how Djokovic doesn’t win the title in my opinion. The guy is unreal.

 

I am sticking my neck out, Alcaraz is going to be the Champion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Aye I’ve seen it a few times. I get that it looks shifty and it might be. *shrug*

 

https://tennis-infinity.com/atp-wta...re-the-most-tested-players-for-doping-in-2021

Article showing how many times players were tested from 2021. Djokovic is either incredibly stupid and very lucky, or the rumours of him using PED’s are simply nonsense. I’d go for the latter.

 

About 20 times per year according to google. No idea what the conditions are.

Yeah I remember that. It does raise suspicion.

 

Modern Tennis popularity was literally built off the battles between Djokovic, Federer and Nadal. Murray kinda in about it but just a level below.

It wouldn’t surprise me if they were given special treatment in terms of testing to keep them at their very best for as long as possible. I don’t think Federer was partaking, pure talent.

 

I think doping in elite level sport is probably pretty common tbh. We know it was rife in cycling, players have been banned in tennis, rumours about Liverpool/the huns etc with their asthmatic players etc. Look at this interview with Serena Williams for example, where she talks about drugs use using a TUE (Theraputic Use Exemption), which I'd guess a lot of sports people use as a loophole for taking stuff 'legally'. https://ita.sport/tue/

 

I'd say it definitely is, not in the sense of folk just pumping themselves full of steroids, but with a lot more research and science to it.

Sure it's been discussed on here before but I remember a lecture in uni many years ago, and the lecturer was suggesting it was pretty much impossible for drug testing to prevent people abusing PEDs, because sports organisations and individual's medical teams and sports scientists were able to create ones that weren't illegal yet, so they were always a step ahead. He was actually of the opinion we should just let everyone do what they wan as it would be the only way to have a level playing field!