There are many questions that journalists ask the exhausted, sweaty and impatient tennis player: whether he is the winner or the loser, these questions should be better selected, changed in topic and mood or eliminated altogether. It is known that journalists have a limited time to write down what they will ask the player at this special moment and occasion, but more appropriate questions should actually be asked.
Journalists should not ask players these questions during press conferences: 1.) Don’t talk about a certain set or breaking point. Players are not tape recorders who have every point they made during the game burned into their minds.
Journalists should stop quoting different sets like “in the 2nd set you had 3 break points…” These are overly technical questions about what they did right or wrong and can be boring for the journalists. players when they don’t remember the point. or points in question.
Why do you think players say “repeat that again”? Too technical…keep it simple and too boring too. 2.) Stop asking a player if they were the crowd’s favorite when it was obvious whether or not they were. A player knows if he was the crowd’s favorite and that has nothing to do with whether a player is from that part of town.
Never ask a player if they were the favorite player. It’s rude and embarrassing. This puts the player in a bad position if the crowd doesn’t like him and wants him to lose. 3.) Do not mention to a player that he is not playing well on a certain surface of the court.
If a player lost at a hard court tournament, it would be silly to say that maybe it’s not their favorite surface. This might be their favorite, but not their day to win due to chronic injury, a very tough opponent, or strategies they just couldn’t execute properly.