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Does Ryan Harrison want trash talking in tennis?

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Ryan Harrison made an interesting tweet last week…

“Would you be for or against tennis having open trash talk the way the NBA and so many other sports do it?”

Most tennis fans would agree, tennis is too nicey nice right now. The Federer-Nadal-Djokovic era has been a decade of grace, class, manners, elegance, respect and beautiful, clean tennis.

While it has been a great run for tennis, one has to wonder, what the impact would be on the ATP Tour if a handful of edgy, controversial and trash talkers suddenly emerged and became factors?

Drama and controversy in pro tennis has become an extreme rarity in recent years. You know the old saying, Controversy sells.

The popularity of tennis could explode if some talented trash talkers were to emerge and become successful ATP stars.

I don’t know about you but I like that Ryan Harrison is getting the ball rolling on injecting trash talking into tennis.

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8 comments

  • dan markowitz · May 13, 2015 at 2:20 pm

    Well, he’d really get the ball rolling if he trash talked like Mardy Fish in their match at Indy Wells. Or maybe Harry did trash talk Fish and that’s why we don’t see anymore of Mardy. He went back to golfing where players wear tweed and never trash talk each other.

  • Andrew Patron · May 13, 2015 at 5:15 pm

    These days, the trash talking role has fallen to the fathers. With the fathers of Bernard Tomic, Camila Giorgi, Jelena Dokic, Mary Pierce, Bartoli, Caprioti… Though the last few may have been trash talking their own kids…

  • Scoop Malinowski · May 13, 2015 at 7:54 pm

    Also you forgot to mention Mirka Andrew ) remember she called Stan a crybaby at London WTF. I’ve heard Brooke Shields was a trash talker especially against Becker 🙂

  • Scoop Malinowski · May 13, 2015 at 7:55 pm

    I saw that match Dan on TV and didn’t see neither trash talk to the other, both played a very nice respectful match, nice handshake at end. But you were there live, maybe you saw it differently. What happened?

  • Dan Markowitz · May 14, 2015 at 9:00 am

    No, nothing happened at Fish-Harry match. They seem to respect each other. But I’m saying, if Harry trash talked Fish, he might’ve made the match sizzle a bit.

    How about when Fish played Spadea in Delray that year, and I had written on Tennis-Prose.com about how Spadea was going to take down Fish, and when Mardy won a tight tough first set, he turned to me in the media section and roared. That was trash talking of a kind.

    How about this Jovanovski? This is the first time I’ve really seen her on tv, but she’s a beauty, long and willowy. Her game is another amalgam of so many of today’s women’s game, big basher from the baseline with big shrieks when she hits the ball, but she’s another beauty.

    The idea, and it was once very prominent, that pretty girls wouldn’t play pro tennis because the work you have to put in to be a pro would exclude pretty girls who wouldn’t want to work so hard, has been smashed. When you look at Sharapova, Bouchard, Wozniaki, Ivanovic and now Jovnovski, you’ve got some very pretty girls at the top.

  • Scoop Malinowski · May 14, 2015 at 9:14 am

    Certain players would never trash talk each other, there are a lot of friendships. But also there are divisions and certain players who don’t like each other. And trash talk situations could arise. Berd – Almagro for example. I wonder if that Aussie – Argentina divide still exists. Bojana is one of the beauties of the WTA, we have a reader who is one of her biggest fans, I believe it is Bryan. But there hasn’t been much to say about her lately. I saw her train in Key Biscayne on the off site P courts, stretching and doing drills, she’s definitely top ten in the appeal departments.

  • Bryan · May 17, 2015 at 10:16 pm

    NO to open trash talk. I’ve played a lot of pickup basketball and tennis at public courts. Basketball came from the streets, tennis from the country clubs. In streetball I talk as much trash as anyone but never in tennis. It’s just a different cultural background that would seem absurd if this started in tennis.

  • Bryan · May 17, 2015 at 10:19 pm

    “How about this Jovanovski? This is the first time I’ve really seen her on tv, but she’s a beauty, long and willowy. Her game is another amalgam of so many of today’s women’s game, big basher from the baseline with big shrieks when she hits the ball, but she’s another beauty.”

    Dan, Bojana is my girl. Been a big fan of hers for years. I like her aggression and of course her looks so she’ll always be a personal favorite.

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