As astutely noted by Dan Markowitz in Delray Beach, Juan Martin Del Potro bears resemblance to a lion in by how he sometimes makes that fierce territorial grunting sound while striking the ball. Watching Delpo battle with Djokovic yesterday, the ferocious Argentine also showed the lion-like ease in how he lopes around the court so casually between points. But when the chase is on to win the point is on, Delpo instantly transforms into an aggressive, relentless hunter.
Rafael Nadal, of course, gallops heavily but swiftly around the court like a wild, raging bull, with his nostrils snorting too, for added effect.
Novak Djokovic is not without an animal comparison. With his supremely graceful and purposeful movements, the wide eyes surveying the court with pinpoint vision, Nole soars and strikes with the precision of the mighty eagle.
Which other players resemble animals? What is Federer?
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Scoop Malinowski · May 28, 2011 at 9:14 pm
People at the tenniswarehouse forum responded to this thread with some interesting ideas…
Federer is a galloping horse
Isner – Giraffe
Tsonga – Leopard
Monfils – Gazelle
Monfils – Black mamba
Ferrer = terrier
Can’t think of animals that have graceful movement like Fed. I’ve always think of him like a dancer in tennis court.
Murray = kuala bear
Djokovic = eagle
Federer = great white shark
Nadal = gorilla
Federer = Swan
Fish is a Fish LOL
Nadal = monkey
Courier = goat
Murray = rabbit
Federer = the galloping Stallion
Nadal = bootypicking jungleboy
Djoker = eagleeyed Serbian Hawk
Delpo = the Lion roars
Isner = the awkward girraffe
Monfils = the wild Monkey
Murray = the white rabbit
Noel – peac0ck
Federer – Cow
Nadal – buffalo
Soderling – langur
Murray – nothing in the animal kingdom compares but if forced I’d pick a shark or piranha
Federer= Lion
Del Potro= Liger
Nadal= Hyena(female Matriarch)
Verdasco= Vulture
Tsonga= Bear
Djokovic= Leopard
Murray= Chewpa Cabbra(i don’t know how to spell it)
Melzer= Wilder beast
Soderling= Crocodile
Serena W= Hippopotamus in the rainy season
Davydenko= baboon
Gilles Simon= Cheetah
Petrova- Cow
Gulbis= Sloth
Monfils= Black Mamba
Nalbandian= rhino
Hantuckova= Thompson gazelle
Federer is a unicorn. His tennis artistry is a myth itself.
Verdasco is an Iberian Lynx