Deuce wrote: ↑Sat Aug 07, 2021 5:45 am
I don't know how long you've been following tennis... but I've been following (and playing) it for about 40 years. In that time, I've seen a thing or two happen, and more than a few different situations and scenarios.
Let me guess, this is meant to imply that your opinion is "more valid" than mine?
Anyway, I've been watching and playing longer than 40 years. Do I win now?
Deuce wrote: ↑Sat Aug 07, 2021 5:45 am
Obviously everyone is free to hold an opinion (although, while you claim the same, you are, interestingly, telling me that my opinion is somehow not valid... hmmm...).
I, though, find it rather disrespectful to the player's own judgment when people call for him/her to retire because he/she is not playing as well as previously, or because of injury, etc.
Imagine thinking that if someone disagrees with you, that means they're saying your opinion is "invalid"! I said your opinion is WRONG. Don't play the victim. You're the one who said it is disrespectful for tennis fans to give their opinion on a topic that is on a lot of tennis fans' minds these days. And then act as if I'm starting a petition that we're going to mail to Roger to try to persuade him to retire or something, LoL. I assure you, he's not reading TAT2. Tennis commentators have been opining much more publicly about his retirement for years now, do you write in to complain often?
Again, such a weird thing to want to start an argument over, because YOU decided this is "intensely personal". They're extremely public figures. This is a very public decision about a very public career. Roger Federer would not feel the tiniest bit "disrespected" to learn that some 50-year-old Canadian thinks he should retire if he can't get fully healthy again.