Seems like Marat is getting a little cranky in his old age.
No no no, put the microphone down!
After losing to the Berd today, Marat decided to lecture his fellow ATPers on the importance of manning up and just accepting that you're going to lose, already.
“Just come on; just grow up a little bit; 26 years old; just deal
with that,” he said. “If you’re losing, just be a man; be a man and
lose as a man. Don’t pretend that you are injured and then you start
running around and start to hit winners and then all of a sudden you
pull the hands up in the air after winning the match? So then of
course the guy will say: ‘No, I’ve been injured but then I felt a little bit
better’. Of course he will find 10,000 excuses. Still, it’s not enough.
You’re playing or you’re not playing. If you’re playing, so just shut…up
and play.”
Then again, Marat believing that if you're losing, you should just... lose explains so much about the last eight years of his career. Look, I love him as much as any straight girl, but IMO accusing your opponent of faking an injury is about the lowest of the low. Plus, if Marat can't deal with waiting through his opponent calling for a trainer, that's not really his opponent's fault. Stop making 10,000 excuses! Just accept responsibility for your own insanity, Marat.
And then there was this hilarious logic fail...
“In 2004 we had this discussion in Olympic Games with Roddick about
it and they were blaming me that I’m playing too much, and I was
saying that the season is too long. We should make it shorter. And the
guys, they jumped on me, like I was the one who was wrong. So look at
all of them—everybody is falling apart. Everybody is getting injured left
and right, and everybody is complaining the season is long. It takes six
years to realise that something is wrong? They just have to deal with that,
not when they are 21 and ambitious and want to make money. They have to
think a little bit with their brains and to make the career a little bit longer.”
I love the bitterness that because no one listened to him five years ago, now they all just have to suck it up and deal. Relax, Marat. You were right then, and the point is right now too. If the reason it fell through before was that no one else supported you, maybe some support for the point now wouldn't go awry, hmmm? Less bitter, more obnoxiously magnanimous. It's definitely the way to go.
In the end, Marat lost because he couldn't keep his forehand together, not because Tomas took a bazillion (or, from what I can tell from the limited amount of that match I've seen, two) medical timeouts. And I very rarely have any sympathy for the "refusing to shake your opponent's hand" stance. But Shanghai did give him a nice send-off, including an incredibly awesome Marat montage to "Wild Thing", though. LOLZ. And, of course, there was some hilarious signage:
Get in line, ladies.
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