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I saw this article commenting how SABR (Sneak Attack By Roger) is a dirty move:
http://espn.go.com/tennis/usopen15/...nis-said-roger-federer-justifies-sneak-attack
The first thing I thought of when I read this was how in the national finals how the random nobodies were calling Sanada a dirty player for not playing Tezuka straight up against Tezuka Phantom even though he had a move that can trivially neutralize it which obviously bothered Sanada. At that time, I thought it was just standard POT stuff and Sanada was just dumb for letting himself getting bothered over some stupid insults. However, seeing that Roger Federer gets called out for a dirty player, this insult thing must be some common tactic in tennis to try to play mind games with your opponent, so I was wrong for faulting Sanada for falling for it! That is, if people in real life hoped it'd work on Roger Federer then who am I to say that this tactic couldn't work on Sanada, who despite his superhuman powers still is presumably not as mentally tough as Roger Federer?
http://espn.go.com/tennis/usopen15/...nis-said-roger-federer-justifies-sneak-attack
The first thing I thought of when I read this was how in the national finals how the random nobodies were calling Sanada a dirty player for not playing Tezuka straight up against Tezuka Phantom even though he had a move that can trivially neutralize it which obviously bothered Sanada. At that time, I thought it was just standard POT stuff and Sanada was just dumb for letting himself getting bothered over some stupid insults. However, seeing that Roger Federer gets called out for a dirty player, this insult thing must be some common tactic in tennis to try to play mind games with your opponent, so I was wrong for faulting Sanada for falling for it! That is, if people in real life hoped it'd work on Roger Federer then who am I to say that this tactic couldn't work on Sanada, who despite his superhuman powers still is presumably not as mentally tough as Roger Federer?
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