Anyone else bothered by how many time the joker hits his ball before he serves it???

[a kennedy]

🤬. He hits it with the racket 5 times, THEN HE BOUNCES IT 10 times before he hits the damn thing?? Does it bother ANYONE ELSE??? He’s a great tennis player, but come on man just hit the damn thing. Sheesh. Oh and, JMHO.

[stopdiggin]

1. headgames. commonplace in many sports. reigning example being the ridiculous amount

of deliberate stalling taking place - in between one pitch and another, in major league baseball.

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[Bristlecone]

2. That got stopped with the pitch clock

Same with the batter having to step in. Also now timed.

[stopdiggin]

3. yes. (and thank god)

And I probably shouldn't have used the term 'reigning example' - (as I clearly did) - because that was admittedly misleading.

But it had to get to point of ridiculous exaggeration before they finally did something about it. (and because officials, fans, and to some extent players, were all sick to death of it)

And - in all examples presented - it is in furtherance of head-games, as opposed to performance. Along with being extremely tedious.

[Bristlecone]

4. It's funny, and now kinda on a side tangent, but

I thought the pitch clock and throw over rules would be horrible, but I was wrong - they work pretty darn well.