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“I think it’s unfair how much Rafa gets away with it” John McEnroe suggests a….
“I think it’s unfair how much Rafa gets away with it” John McEnroe suggests a favorable treatment of Nadal
John McEnroe has never hidden his admiration for Rafael Nadal. Just before the final of the Australian Open, in which the Spaniard won his 21st Grand Slam title, he called him “the best athlete he had ever seen in any sport.” However, he has now given him a stick by letting it slip that he receives favored treatment from the referees due to his status as a great tennis legend.
It was in an interview with the American media Insider, in which the former American tennis player was asked if he had any hobbies when he played.
“I didn’t have any big superstitions,” the seven-time Grand Slam winner replied. “Sometimes he stepped on the lines in the odd games and didn’t step on them in the even games or didn’t change his uniform when he had won with one. Just that kind of thing, but he wasn’t as much as Rafa ”.
“I think it’s unfair how much Rafa gets away with it” John McEnroe suggests a….
McEnroe then referred to the famous routine that Nadal follows in each service which puts on the pants and shoulders of his shirt, touches his nose, and brushes his hair behind his ears while dribbling the ball repeatedly before taking it. the service.
Then the American insinuated that, with all those manias, he exceeds the time allowed to serve with the approval of the chair umpires. “Rafa has his ritual of wasting 30 seconds every time he plays a point”, he began by saying. “When you’re that good, you can do it. ”
The now commentator also suggested that he was allowed his bad manners on the field for being another legend. “ It’s one of the things about being the best: you end up getting away with it. It shows with things that I did on the track and with what he does. More elegantly, obviously. He doesn’t get to yell at people or things like that,” he added.
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It is not the first time that someone criticizes Nadal for the time he spends between each point. Precisely at the Australian Open, his rival in the quarterfinals, Denis Shapovalov, complained to referee Carlos Bernardes during the match and after the match in the press room.
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“I think it’s unfair how much Rafa gets away with it,” he said. “In the rest of the games, the pace has been faster because the referees have been attentive after each point. In this one, after two sets, we had about an hour and a half just because it takes so long. I respect everything Rafa has done and I think he is an incredible player, but there have to be some limits, some rules. He is frustrating as a player, you feel like you are not only playing against your rival but also the referees and much more”.
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Players can take a maximum of 25 seconds between each point and two minutes between sets, which time is exactly timed.
“I think he is wrong in this case,” Nadal then replied to the Canadian. The man from Monaco, however, has not answered McEnroe, although as we said their relationship has always been excellent and they have praised each other repeatedly. Facing Roland Garros, the American named the 13-time champion of the Parisian Grand Slam as the main favorite of this edition despite his physical problems.
“The only certain reason why Rafa Nadal would not be a favorite is that he seems to have some kind of injury. But, with his history at Roland Garros, it would be quite unthinkable that he was not the great candidate when he has won it 13 times ”, he commented on Eurosport.
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Max Verstappen has once again claimed that he is the target of ‘British bias’ in the media after watching the fallout from his battle with Lando Norris. The three-time world champion’s defending was criticised by a number of drivers, including Lewis Hamilton.
Verstappen and Norris shared a titanic battle at the Circuit of the Americas last weekend, but the flashpoint came at Turn 12 as the Dutchman deployed a signature tactic, lunging deep into the corner to get to the apex first before running both himself and his title rival off the road.
Norris opted to keep his foot in and overtook the Red Bull driver around the outside, although this decision landed him a five-second time penalty that dropped him back behind Verstappen in the general classification. This sparked a major debate with other drivers – Hamilton included – calling for the FIA to take action and outlaw this style of defending.
Verstappen has been frustrated by this debate. Quizzed by Viaplay in Mexico on whether he’d like to see the rules changed, he replied: “No, not really. But I have the wrong passport.” Asked if he was referring to a British passport, he confirmed as much.
“Yeah, it’s the wrong country, on that aspect… with complaining” he replied. “I love my passport but on that aspect, I should have had a different passport, actually.” The Dutchman also complained of ‘British bias’ earlier this season following comments made by Adrian Newey.
When asked about the debate surrounding Verstappen’s on-track conduct, former title rival Hamilton was quick to point out that the Dutchman has been employing these tactics for some time, dating back to their no-punches-pulled fight in 2021.
“It’s always been a grey area, that’s why he’s got away with it for so long,” Hamilton explained ahead of the Mexican Grand Prix. “They probably need to make some adjustments for sure.
“Also, we do have inconsistencies through rulings, weekend in, weekend out, obviously depending on which years it is. I mean, as a sport, we do need to level up on all areas and if you look at other global sports, they have full-time refs, for example, and I’m sure that wouldn’t be a bad thing for our sport.
“I experienced it many times with Max, you shouldn’t be able to just launch the car on the inside and be ahead and then you go off and still hold your position. So, they need to definitely work on this.”
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$200M Jeff Gordon teams up with Chase Elliott and Co. to decode the HMS driver behind the “Don’t judge me” old tweet
Hendrick Motorsports vice chairman Jeff Gordon teamed up with Chase Elliott and other HMS drivers in a lighthearted fun exercise for fans where they attempted to solve the mystery behind an old tweet from their current driver.
The anonymous tweet reads, “Don’t judge me, but I can’t wait to see the new twilight movie haha,” and it’s believed to belong to one of the HMS’s driver lineups, which includes Elliott, Kyle Larson, William Byron and Alex Bowman.
Jeff Gordan, who has a net worth of $200 million (according to Celebrity Net Worth), and HMS drivers tried to guess, but none of them were correct. Bowman and Elliott named Byron, while Byron went with Elliott, but it was Larson. He accepted that it was his tweet in 2011 and revealed that he likes Catherine Hardwicke’s Twilight movie.
HMS shared the video of the fun investigative activity on Instagram with a caption:
“Hold on tight, spider monkey”
Watch the Jeff Gordon and HMS’s guesses below:
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Three out of four HMS drivers are still in contention for the 2024 NASCAR Cup championship. Larson and Byron are in good position in the playoffs points table, with 35 and 27 points above the cutline.
However, 2020 Cup champion Elliott is in danger of getting eliminated from title contention, as he’s 53 points behind the cutline heading to this weekend’s Homestead-Miami race.
In an interview with NBC Sports earlier this season, Jeff Gordon spoke about the competition between their two best drivers, Kyle Larson and Chase Elliott, for the regular season championship. Gordan wanted to see both top drivers perform well and race aggressively against each other while maintaining sportsmanship in their chase for the regular season title.
However, neither Larson nor Elliott won the championship; it was Tyler Reddick who clinched the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series regular season championship. Speaking to NBC Sports, the four-time NASCAR Cup champion Jeff Gordon said:
“I think it’s pretty clear at Hendrick how we expect teams and drivers to race against one another and how they’ve got to go and compete not only against their competitors but against one another.
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“Kyle Busch is an a**”: Brad Keselowski publicly chastised his fierce NASCAR rival in front of over 150,000 spectators
Kyle Busch and Brad Keselowski birthed one of the fiercest rivalries in NASCAR. The duo had multiple run-ins throughout their careers, but the seed of their feud was sown at the 2010 Xfinity Series race hosted by the Bristol Motor Speedway. In the aftermath, Keselowski publicly castigated Busch in front of over 150,000 fans during driver introductions.
Busch kicked off his Food City 250 from third place in his #18 Toyota while Keselowski began in 13th. However, as the 250-lap battle inched closer to its conclusion, the then-Penske Racing driver held the domination while the former #18 Joe Gibbs Racing driver fought hard for the lead.
After struggling to overtake for nearly a dozen laps, Busch, with 31 laps until the checkered flag dropped, lunged ahead of Keselowski, only to be wrecked from behind and lose the spot again.
However, the JGR driver quickly retaliated and spun out Keselowski’s #22 Dodge. The move propelled the #18 Toyota to the victory lane while the Penske driver fell from a potential win to settling in 14th place.
The bitter feeling inside Brad Keselowski surfaced during the Bristol Cup Series race driver introductions the following day. After Kyle Busch introduced himself, his fierce rival took the mic and blasted Busch with his “a**’ comment.
“Brad Keselowski, driver of the Penske Racing Dodge. Kyle Busch is an a**,” he said.
However, when asked why he slammed Busch, Keselowski said that Juan Pablo Montoya challenged that he can’t call the JGR driver an “a**”. It’s worth mentioning that the crowd’s roar on the Penske driver’s introduction notched 104.2 decibels.
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