ponchi101 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 25, 2023 10:08 pm
Why doesn't he talk to a PR person? Injured people don't beat other top players by the scores he has been beating them. Plus, I am sure that somebody in Madison Avenue has a metric of how people see him. And, fair or not, he has a public profile, some of which came from the years in which he retired with frequency from tournaments. So, lay low. Say nothing about the injury, play your matches. But it will never look good when somebody claims they are facing a disadvantage and then they plaster a fellow player |1,2 & 4.
And, a hamstring? He should not be able to run, at all.
I barely watched the match, but when I turned it on, there was a point that Rublev should've won, but Djokovic was running down every single ball that would've been winners against almost anyone else, outstretched damn near in a spread eagle split, low to the ground, and I was just like, Novak, really, a hamstring injury? You can't get into splits like that pop up, do it again, do it again, and then keep playing the rest of the match, walk normally, and be ready for the next match and still claim a damn hamstring injury.
I don't care even a little bit that he's going to win this tournament with little resistance in a few days. I doubt many tennis fans do either whether they like him or not, we're used to it, we know he's a great player and he's at his best in Australia. Nothing about this is surprising. I just see no reason whatsoever that he needs to act like he's injured AND keep talking about said injury with the press as if it is an active issue that is hampering him.
It has been absolutely shocking for years that he hasn't gotten a legitimate PR consultant to work on his public image. He wants to be so beloved, it is baffling that he hasn't enlisted outside expert help with it. He wouldn't be great, too much has happened that many can't forget, but he'd definitely improved his image with some fans by now. And we know he hasn't, because he just never gets it right and he would've had some hits alongside the misses if he had bothered to get that help.