Nasty tennis game

India Matches. Football Matches. All Matches. South Africa need runs to win with 8 wickets remaining. Fantasy Tips. Story Progress Back to home. Yes, players get inside each other's heads and performance can be affected, but on this day, Feliciano Lopez and Juan Monaco really showed their emotion. Leander Paes, who has been involved in more than one spat, and his doubles partner, Mahesh Bhupathi, both of India pushed the Spanish-speaking pair a little too far.

Both sides appeared to make deliberate efforts to hit the ball directly at one of their opponents before more verbal back-and-forth led to a confrontation at the net.

In the end it worked, and the Indians won in straight sets, showing that tennis isn't always played on the court; sometimes the match can be in the head. Serena Williams has already appeared once on the list for a relatively easy-going outburst against the chair umpire at the U. Open, but this outburst was even more serious. Having been called for a foot fault in the U.

Open, Serena felt there was a chance that the line judge may have been wrong, so she politely asked if that was the case.

When I say politely, I mean Serena actually threatened to shove a tennis ball down her throat. With the match tied at one set each, Nicolas Almagro found himself needing to hold serve in order to defeat Mikhail Youzhny at the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami.

Having battled his way to a match-saving break point, Youzhny felt he was in a good position. A long and tense rally ensued, but it ended when Youzhny made an unforced error and left the ball in the net. Where most players can control themselves, those who feel the need to express their anger generally smash their racket on the floor, but not Youzhny. He took it out on his own head, and the racket won. With blood pouring from Youzhny's head, a medical timeout was called and the game was delayed at deuce and Almagro still needed to serve for the match.

Whether the delay affected Almagro, or if the several blows to the head simply motivated Youzhny, it was the Russian who came back and won the match, moving into the Round of World Team Tennis was a great idea, putting all the big personalities on court together. It showed that the tennis was entertaining, but also meant there was a good chance that personalities would clash. Leander Paes has history in tennis, especially in doubles.

He is regarded as a player who winds up his opponents very well, and back in July , it worked again—this time with Robert Kendrick and his entire team. It's likely there was a lot of verbal back and forth beforehand, but the first real sighting we get is when Paes smashes a volley into Kendrick's face. That move resulted in both team managers and John McEnroe on the same side of the court, ready to fight.

Kendrick responded differently, waiting to pounce. Later in the game, he smashed his serve way off target and straight at Paes, causing another managerial battle. Eventually, Kendrick's manager, Chuck Adams, was sent away from the match, but not before opposing manager Murphy Jensen and team member Olga Puchkova got involved.

Their biggest spat came not in a grand slam final, but a exhibition match in Chicago. While most expected a light-hearted but competitive match between the two Americans, it soon became clear that this was more than a friendly exhibition to both of them. A few back-and-forth moments resulted in this amazing scene where Connors crossed the net and confronted McEnroe face-to-face.

McEnroe seemed calm but pushed Connors away before the officials got involved. Lleyton Hewitt has already made it onto the honourable mention slide, and he is there purely on a lack of evidence or nastiness. This incident with Juan Ignacio Chela, however, just shows it wasn't a one-off.

Granted, on this occasion it was Chela who provided the nasty, but Hewitt played the instigator. The Australian has made a habit of loud and enthusiastic celebrations when winning points, and Chela seemed to be getting sick of it throughout this Australian Open clash. I never had a conversation with Steve Waugh back in the day. You just didn't," Vaughan said. Get into the scrap. Chirp, do whatever, just get into the scrap.

They all fall out. Who cares, but then come out and show a bit of spirit I actually want to see a bit of mongrel in the England side. Root 23 surpassed Alastair Cook 22 to become the England captain with most losses in Test cricket following their run loss in the Pink-ball Test at the Adelaide Oval. There is not a rash of alternatives, but the notion that there is no one to take over is the worst rationale for keeping the job.

The year-old also slammed head coach Chris Silverwood for taking "poor decisions", mainly in terms of the selection of the team for the two Tests. The third Test begins in Melbourne on December 26 and Atherton feels England need to address their batting woes.