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Originally Posted by Buff
Nadal makes a lot of money, right?
Then why can't he buy a properly fitted pair of underwear so we don't have to see him adjust his rear and crotch before every serve?!?
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he has OCD, there's never been anything wrong with his shorts. there's videos of him playing in juniors and there were absolutely no rituals, it literally took him like 2 seconds to serve once he stepped up to the line. since then he's gradually added more steps to his routine, the butt pick being the most famous of course
currently, the serve ritual (starting at the baseline) is:
1. ball bounce with butt pick
2. tug left sleeve
3. tug right sleeve
4. touch nose
5. push hair behind left ear
6. touch nose
7. push hair behind right ear
8. bounce ball 4-7 times
9. serve
with all of that he normally gets a time violation warning every 1 or 2 matches, but amazingly he gets it all done faster than a couple years ago when there was no enforcement of the time rule.
if he's still playing 5 years from now it'll be pretty awesome watching him try to fit a 20 step routine into the time limits.