That's a silly thing to write. "Guys, he knows he's playing poorly, you don't have to tell him". Well, we don't have to tell Felix when he's playing well, either. People talk about a sport, and no one is celebrating Denis being bad at it - that's not the intent behind discussions about what's gone wrong with his progression as a tennis player or what the weaknesses are in his game, any more than talking about a different player's strengths are just fawning.
Tennis discourse kind of sucks sometimes, for a variety of reasons.
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