You’ve Gotta Be Kidding Me! Things In Tennis That Are Not Funny (Part II)

Broadcasting mistakes – Tennis cable tv stations do their part to broadcast many hours of standard tier matches and even Grand Slam tournaments, but during rain delays why would a match a week ago be re-broadcasted instead of one yesterday that was never televised? This is not only annoying but hardly funny. Tennis enthusiasts are often baffled and unnerved too when a match is televised that has just started the 2nd set, while one match with 2 match points left and exciting are not shown until the match is over. This leaves the television audience fuming. 

Embarrassing medical timeouts and accidental hits – unfortunately when a player sustains an injury during a match, they call a trainer onto the court and the time out is granted but where the injury is on a part of the player’s body that is private, the moments of trying to get therapy from a trainer can be difficult. Towels are covering the area, necessary to massage and in full view of a stadium full of patrons and tennis professionals. Players may not be afforded a time to go off court to get the massage or be tended to and it’s not really funny that the trainer can’t get to the area of the body needed to be worked on. It really becomes difficult also when players get hit by a tennis ball on inappropriate body parts and the player can’t massage or rub that area in front of the masses that are watching. In point was the time that Tsonga was hit ‘below the belt’ by Andy Murray at Wimbledon a few years back and the commentator made the remark that “he was hit in a very vulnerable spot…he might be excused going over the time limit in this occasion…”Scoring, ball …

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