Federer - the most ungracious bad loser in sporting history?

[johnfm]

Clearly a great player. But whenever he loses, he always has a raft of excuses and never, ever concedes that he was outplayed.

Glad he is out really.

[5unny]

"Show Me A Good Loser, And I'll Show You A Loser"

But no you're correct.

He's never been all that gracious in defeat.

Today was particularly bad.

Two blokes who really shine in this respect on the tennis court are Nadal and Djokovic.

[andy400]

You only have to look at his ridiculous personal-gold-logo-adorned clothing and baseball cap to know that the man is, first and foremost, a tit.

[TheBear]

andy400 said:

You only have to look at his ridiculous personal-gold-logo-adorned clothing and baseball cap to know that the man is, first and foremost, a tit.

You mean the RF logo which is the Roger Federer Foundation logo which helps disadvantaged children and where a lot proceeds of RF logo stuff go to charity?

[DrTre]

TheBear said:

You mean the RF logo which is the Roger Federer Foundation logo which helps disadvantaged children and where a lot proceeds of RF logo stuff go to charity?

Yeah...and them bleedin' Barcelona wkers, with Unicef on their shirts...

[Gun]

What made it worse was that brown nosed suck up who was interviewing him after the match, he said something along the lines of "you're also so magnanimous and sporting in your defeats". Is he bks!

[TheBear]

Does anyone remember Jeff Tarango? Tennis player who at Wimbledon during a match had a pop at the umpire and accused him of being corrupt before packing his bags and walking off. Later, his wife Benedicte slapped the umpire in the face. 'Jeff couldn't hit him because he might be thrown out of tennis,' she said. 'Women are emotional,' explained Jeff...

I could name many worse than Federer

Ricky Ponting
John Howard(Aussie PM who was rather ungracious in giving out the 2003 RWC medals
Alex Ferguson
Arsene Wenger

[andy400]

TheBear said:

andy400 said:

You only have to look at his ridiculous personal-gold-logo-adorned clothing and baseball cap to know that the man is, first and foremost, a tit.

You mean the RF logo which is the Roger Federer Foundation logo which helps disadvantaged children and where a lot proceeds of RF logo stuff go to charity?

You're the first person to point out the existence of such a Foundation, everyone else just agrees that he looks, at best, like a pretentious arse.

I feel bad......

[johnfm]

TheBear said:

Does anyone remember Jeff Tarango? Tennis player who at Wimbledon during a match had a pop at the umpire and accused him of being corrupt before packing his bags and walking off. Later, his wife Benedicte slapped the umpire in the face. 'Jeff couldn't hit him because he might be thrown out of tennis,' she said. 'Women are emotional,' explained Jeff...

I could name many worse than Federer

Ricky Ponting
John Howard(Aussie PM who was rather ungracious in giving out the 2003 RWC medals
Alex Ferguson
Arsene Wenger

Ricky Ponting?

Don't recall a single interview after a defeat where he hasn't said 'we weren't good enough on the day'. Don't recall him ever saying 'the opposition that just beat us were rubbish, and we only lost becasue of x,y or z'.

[MaxAndRuby]

johnfm said:

TheBear said:

Does anyone remember Jeff Tarango? Tennis player who at Wimbledon during a match had a pop at the umpire and accused him of being corrupt before packing his bags and walking off. Later, his wife Benedicte slapped the umpire in the face. 'Jeff couldn't hit him because he might be thrown out of tennis,' she said. 'Women are emotional,' explained Jeff...

I could name many worse than Federer

Ricky Ponting
John Howard(Aussie PM who was rather ungracious in giving out the 2003 RWC medals
Alex Ferguson
Arsene Wenger

Ricky Ponting?

Don't recall a single interview after a defeat where he hasn't said 'we weren't good enough on the day'. Don't recall him ever saying 'the opposition that just beat us were rubbish, and we only lost becasue of x,y or z'.

Have to agree. Ponting hates losing, but he's not a bad loser.

[Condi]

Nobody mention Lewis yet? The man with a million and one reasons why he didnt win.........

[anonymous-user]

Ponting is a great loser. He's had loads of opportunities demonstrate it too.

[hornetrider]

el stovey said:

Ponting is a great loser. He's had loads of opportunities demonstrate it too.

More so than any other Aussie Cap'n

[anonymous-user]

hornetrider said:

el stovey said:

Ponting is a great loser. He's had loads of opportunities demonstrate it too.

More so than any other Aussie Cap'n

Yes he must love standing there at the end of another capitulation as Atherton asks him why Australia rolled over again.

[Bing o]

el stovey said:

Ponting is a great loser. He's had loads of opportunities demonstrate it too.

At ODIs he's won 76% - more than any other Captain anywhere in the world. So me thinks you is talking st

[hornetrider]

Bing o said:

el stovey said:

Ponting is a great loser. He's had loads of opportunities demonstrate it too.

At ODIs he's won 76% - more than any other Captain anywhere in the world. So me thinks you is talking st

How's his record in the last four?

[anonymous-user]

hornetrider said:

Bing o said:

el stovey said:

Ponting is a great loser. He's had loads of opportunities demonstrate it too.

At ODIs he's won 76% - more than any other Captain anywhere in the world. So me thinks you is talking st

How's his record in the last four?

All I said was he's lost loads of times, and he has. I'm not talking st thanks.

[funkyrobot]

Can't be worse than anyone connected to the England football team:

- the players were tired
- the ball was new and they struggled with it
- it's all the manager's fault


etc etc.

[tonym911]

Gun said:

What made it worse was that brown nosed suck up who was interviewing him after the match, he said something along the lines of "you're also so magnanimous and sporting in your defeats". Is he bks!

That geezer you're talking about is the single worst interviewer I have ever seen, at any level, in any form of media. I saw him 'interviewing' some foreign lassies at Wimbledon, it was utterly cringeworthy. His definition of interview appears to be to say 'how do you feel'. Sometimes he varies this with 'your immediate reaction please' which is basically another way of saying 'how do you feel'.

[Mr E Driver]

would that be Gary Richardson famous for asking crass and stupid questions on the R4 Today programme?