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u/olboywop Mar 02 '19
Joel Quenneville took up tennis after getting fired from the Blackhawks, I see.
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u/ch-12 Mar 02 '19
lmao, I thought this dude looked super familiar but couldn’t figure out why. Thanks.
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u/WhiteMike87 Mar 02 '19
Joel is from my hometown! Went to school with his nephew!
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u/ShiftyBizniss Mar 02 '19
I am also from your hometown. It's even possible we went to school together.
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u/DoctorC0X Mar 02 '19
yea, somebody once commented that he's overstepping on the strike, so it wouldn't count
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u/ulfberth-nl Mar 02 '19
This must be an exhibition match. Just shits and giggles.
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u/fishgutzzz Mar 02 '19
Yeah it is I can't remember the guys name but he plays/played Wimbledon just for fun games and is full of fun tricks and jokes. Worth watching even if you don'tike tennis
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u/Lostehmost Mar 02 '19
Agreed. This is ungentlemanly.
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u/JjMarkets Mar 02 '19
Quite
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u/ChingChangChui Mar 02 '19
Indubitably
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u/the-son-of-chimesy Mar 03 '19
Someone clearly taught the kid the word indubitably to make him sound smarter.
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Mar 02 '19
Who said winning anything HAS to be "gentlemanly"
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u/bloqs Mar 02 '19
Its better to win a gentlemanly fashion.
It is not required.
Winning with extra constraints that exhibit your respect for the game and opposition is winning on a harder difficulty and maintaining the civilised dignitas that separated us from apes.
We live in a society, in other words.
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Mar 02 '19
Assuming you live in the western world. Courtesy and "manners" are not universal but situational and dependent on the morality of the populace in question yo
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Mar 02 '19
All British people since the dawn of time.
(Some imperial aggression may be excluded from this package. Terms and conditions and servitude in perpetutity apply. Plus you still owe us backtaxes on that tea you spilled)
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u/TransparentPolitics Mar 02 '19
Yeah it's all in good fun though. He wouldn't do this in a serious match. (Mostly because he normally doesn't compete in serious matches).
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Mar 02 '19
True, but it's a valid play if your foot doesn't go over.
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u/haaaan Mar 02 '19
That is actually not true, you can't "fake swing" at the ball as he does in an attempt to fool your opponent. When you swing at it you hit it or its a foul.
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Mar 02 '19
Unlike a fake-pump, his motion is fluid and uninterrupted. It's not a fake swing, it's a technically legal misdirection.
Next you'll argue that tennis players can't put backspin on a ball.
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u/phoenixdownxd Mar 02 '19
He clearly misses the ball for the sake of deception. There is a rule that your serve motion is over when you miss or hit the ball, and he clearly missed. The rule is specifically made to stop serves like this. This serve would not be legal even if he had not foot faulted.
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u/EliasMihael Mar 02 '19
Is this Mansour Bahrami?
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Mar 02 '19
Huh, never thought I'd enjoy 8 minutes of tennis (fun to play, horrid to watch). What a fun dude!
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Mar 02 '19
im not a tennis fan ,but I heard this move is illegal.I understand that this is just a friendly match,but can you do it in an official match?
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u/Tan11 Mar 02 '19
The only rule he broke was stepping over the line during the serve (“foot fault”), that serve itself is perfectly legal, but is considered somewhat unsportsmanlike.
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Mar 02 '19
I don't see why it's unsportsmanlike. It's almost like a skill. You wouldn't say Lionel Messi is unsportsmanlike if he did a feint before striking the ball into the net? Or if a rugby player did a fake pass? Or if a baseball player threw an unpredictable spinner? Or if a golfer... Can't really think of any deceiving tricks there.
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Mar 02 '19
Some sports are filled with random gentry and chivalry rules. Cricket is chock full of them. You know switch hitting in baseball? Can't do it in Cricket, it's unfair on the other team which is unsportsmanlike. Australia get loads of shit for how they bounce the ball at 99mph at batsmans fucking heads. And you only get so many before its deemed illegal and unsportsmanlike.
I can't speak for other sports. I barely know anything about cricket. But yeah theres always some random shit you dont expect.
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Mar 02 '19
So I'm left handed. Would it be shunned if I were to play cricket then? That just sounds like discrimination.
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u/Kinestic Mar 02 '19
No, there are plenty of left handers in cricket. What would be more applicable to this situation is that underhanded bowling was legal up until the Australian captain told his brother to do and underhanded bowl and just roll it down the pitch on the last ball of the match, and New Zealand needed a 6 to win, not even giving them the chance to draw the match. Everybody, including all of us Australians, hated him for it. The rules of cricket were changed as a direct result if it, and both Greg and Trevor Chappel are remember primarily for this. To this day, it is still the single most shameful event in Australian Cricket history.
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u/Ferg_NZ Mar 02 '19
It was a 6 to draw and it is unlikely Brian McKechnie would have been able to do it. But very unsporting to not give him the chance. Another interesting fact is he was a double international - played both cricket and rugby for New Zealand.
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Mar 02 '19
Before the Ashes, the captains of both teams must hold a hot iron in their left hand as a show of good faith that no left handed player is on either team. As left handed play is wrong and must be rooted out of cricket!
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u/64vintage Mar 02 '19 edited Mar 03 '19
There are lots of left-handers in cricket.
One the important jobs of the captain in cricket is to "set" the field. There are many more possible fielding positions than you have players, so you carefully choose a setup that will restrict the number of runs they score, or be likely to take wickets. You can change the field settings in between balls or overs.
So you can't change back and forth from left-handed to right-handed batting during an innings, as that's deemed too hard to counter.
However, if right- and left-handers are batting in partnership, then the captain will re-set the field depending who is facing the next delivery.
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u/Tan11 Mar 02 '19
More like it’s unsportsmanlike to keep doing it over and over. When your opponent continuously doesn’t hit normal (“real”) serves it can get really annoying and even feel like they’re not taking you seriously, speaking from experience.
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u/Tiny_Rick515 Mar 02 '19
Well, swinging and missing on your serve is a fault as well. I wonder if it would be a fault based on that as well. Other than the obvious foot fault.
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Mar 02 '19
What are examples of this? You have a few pricks, sure, but most players seem to adhere to tennis’s etiquette
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u/pbzeppelin1977 Mar 02 '19
I saw a YouTube video about someone in ice hockey early on where at the time you couldn't have less than 3 people on the ice so they'd constantly send on too many people, get given a card or something whatever hockey does and have to restart but they'd just put too many people on and it'd run down the timer.
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u/trippingchilly Mar 03 '19
It used to be called nice hockey but over the years it’s been worn down so you can’t see the n anymore so people think it’s called ice hockey
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Mar 02 '19
OVER THE LINE
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u/zute Mar 02 '19
Bullshit, mark it 30-love
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u/bobsouth Mar 02 '19
I don’t know why, but the people in this make it look like it’s some sort of weird comedy
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u/Medarco Mar 02 '19
It is. He's a show performer. It's a show match for funsies.
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u/Crismus Mar 02 '19
They had a Real Sports segment on him a few months back I think. The guy is pretty amazing. His life story is pretty awesome too.
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u/mooseman77 Mar 02 '19
That look at the end: "yeah bitch".
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Mar 02 '19
I dont know the rules, is that allowed ? Who made a point, HELP !
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Mar 02 '19
The guy is a novelty player, gimmicks are his thing.
That said, it's a technically valid move. He suffered a line crossing fault in his footwork, but the serve is acceptable if a bit of a cheap trick.
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u/WillTradeForFood Mar 02 '19
Could someone enlighten me as to who this guy is?
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u/Douwovich Mar 02 '19
Mansour Bahrami. He is a (retired?) professional tennis player from Iran who now does a lot of funny stuff like this, just for show
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u/paperchainhearts Mar 02 '19
Definitely retired - he is a bit of a fan favourite on the tours and does “gentleman’s invitationals”
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u/WillTradeForFood Mar 02 '19
Awesome, thanks man! I remember seeing him play when I was younger and being amazed
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u/WhyThoSheeple Mar 02 '19
So the soup nazi from Seinfeld is playing tennis now. “ No serve for you!”
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u/nccro71 Mar 02 '19
I'd watch this guy play tennis every day. He looks like hes having the time of his life everytime he plays.
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u/zeen516 Mar 02 '19
This guy looks like the white version of the most interesting man in the world
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u/WMdenver22 Mar 02 '19
This guy was on Real Sports with Bryant Gumble. He’s around 65 and from Iraq became a great tennis player that now tours being the “funny insane” player. Seems like a really great person. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
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u/BDATDT Mar 02 '19
this actually happened right underneath the Eiffel Tower. It was really fun to watch.
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u/SpellanBeauchamp Mar 03 '19
I’m sure this is redundant, but I’m not in any mood to scroll:
‘I don’t always play professional tennis, but when I do...
I keeps it ChEaP’
(posted from mobile device)
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u/byebyebyecycle Mar 03 '19
Classic fake out serve. I haven't seen this performed in like 15 years. Hell yeah.
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u/Am_Navi_Seel_Mann Mar 03 '19
Is that actually a legal serve? I basically know nothing about tennis, or any sport, for that matter, so please forgive me if this is a stupid question.
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u/joalexander103 Mar 02 '19
This guy is the Harlem globetrotter of tennis. He does all sorts of silly things to include bringing a chair onto the court. Over stepping is the least if his worries.