Djokovic and Nadal: Threats of Boycotting Madrid Are Childish and Self-Indulgent

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Published: May 12, 2012

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Imagine a Pete Sampras at the height of his powers threatening to boycott a hard court because he felt its surface conditions were totally different than what he had expected—or felt entitled to.  Picture in this scenario, not the Pistol we know, but a Petulant Pete who found the court’s surface too grainy and too slow. 

So gritty and grippy in fact that to play on it would require an athleticism he didn’t quite have.  To play on it then would be to risk bodily harm. 

Petulant Pete then loses to a No. 8 who had no business upsetting the delicate balances of Pete’s universe.  This Pete-universe also belongs in the slippery second layer of our imagining; a place where things run predictably smoothly in all things that affect Pete.

Things such as court conditions, outcomes of matches and favorable no-calls on time violations.

The last part is hard to depict, but imagine a really crazy scenario where someone bounces a ball fifty or more times or someone else practices a cool, new pidgin sign language with their player’s box and calls it “not cheating”. 

This is Petulant Pete’s wonderful universe or self-verse where the sun forever revolves around the ego. 

Now going further along into this weird parallel universe, we see a Pete whose No. 1 (or temporary No. 2) ranking and weight of opinion alone should entitle him to do anything he pleases or demand accommodation if anything displeases.  The not-so-subtle threats from the displeased, and on their heels, frightened apologies from tournament organizers are but the daily ho-hum in this world which revolves around Petulant Pete. 

Furthermore, do keep in mind, ye Earthlings, if demands are not met, Petulant Pete might not be there next year.  Oh yes.  And rest assured, that will put a dent in your day.  And your television rati...
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