Although he retired several years ago from tennis, Marcelo Rios He continues in the foreground of news sites telling anecdotes or memories of his time in this sport that saw him, at the best moment of his career, as number one in the ATP ranking.
In the last hours, in an interview with “ESPN”, the Chilean Marcelo Rios He revealed what things he did not like about this sport and pointed against the federation: “Unfortunately, tennis has always been a lot of restrictions. You say a scribble and a fine, you throw the racket and a fine”.
Along the same lines, the former player born in Santiago de Chile compared tennis to another sport: “If you see ice hockey, which I really like to go see, they stick to combos, it’s a show, a spectacle, you’re going to see it, you have a beer, you pass it the crack. Wimbledon, dressed in white, they look like any wea, you can’t tell a doodle. In my time, you said anything and it was a fine, money. Tennis is like going to see cricket.”
In addition, Marcelo Rios He was clear about what he thinks of this discipline that had him at the top for a few months: “I have never found tennis entertaining, it was my job, I had to do it, but it was not entertaining. It wasn’t like going to sit down to watch a game and say ‘someone is playing today and how entertaining’”.
Rivers and their likes
On the other hand, Marcelo Rios He confessed which tennis players he liked: “Moreover, all the Djokovic and Nadal finals, moreover, I don’t find Djokovic an entertaining guy on the court either. I liked seeing McEnroe, he left things behind. Haas too, guys who were different.”
Finally, the former tennis player gave his opinion on some aspects of this sport: “But that did not go well with tennis, that is, the guy who scribbled was frowned upon, the guy who whoreed or the one who threw the racket was frowned upon. I don’t know why it got worse and worse, then you had to dress in white, at press conferences you couldn’t speak ill of anyone”.
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