• taiyang@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      Didn’t realize don’t know was an answer. I feel like that’s a solid answer if you figure there’s a chance of an error or something. I wouldn’t put it since I don’t play, though.

    • ryedaft@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      17·
      3 months ago

      2% insincere/ random/ did not understand the question/ thought the question was actually asking the opposite… that’s pretty low. Usually hard to get that under 6-7%.

    • Skua@kbin.earth
      10·
      2 months ago

      That’s probably the best bet for us regular folk, but the problem is that she probably knows that she really doesn’t need to go anywhere near as hard as she could to get every serve past us

    • Flamangoman@leminal.space
      131·
      2 months ago

      Buddy, you think 23-time grand slam winner Serena Williams isn’t going to dust your ass at wii tennis too? 😤

  • Bonifratz@lemm.ee
    38·
    3 months ago

    I mean I guess there’s a non-negligible chance of her hitting a double fault…

    • AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 months ago

      So she tries to T them up on the first serve and it goes long. The second serve will surely be a dink over the net because the opponent is nothing for her to fear so they rush the net , return the serve and in an instant their asshole is the size of a tennis ball

      I guess there is a better than 0 chance but I wouldn’t bet against her

    • Habahnow@sh.itjust.works
      51·
      2 months ago

      Yeah that’s what I’m thinking. I can also get a point off of djocovic, just give me a lot of chances. If we’re talking about a point in one game, nah to either. A point in a 3 set match? I think so.

  • lengau@midwest.social
    162·
    2 months ago

    The minimum number of points to win a 3-set tennis match is 48, winning 6-0, 6-0. If my only goal is to win a single point, I would give myself decent odds at distracting any given pro tennis player enough for them to lose one point. Across the two sets I might even be able to get two points if I’m really lucky.

    However, I don’t plan on breaking my arm by trying to return any of their shots, so even in the (still probably majority) case where I don’t even win one point, at least my embarrassment will be short and controlled.

    • FelixCress@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 months ago

      If my only goal is to win a single point, I would give myself decent odds at distracting any given pro tennis player

      Taking your underwear off may work.

    • thebestaquaman@lemmy.world
      7·
      2 months ago

      I kind of feel like people are neglecting some of this here. Like, yes, any pro tennis player would absolutely crush me. I would never get close to taking a game. However, even pro players lose points because they make mistakes. I don’t need to claim that I’m any match for a pro in order to claim that there’s a non-zero chance that they could blunder a single point.

      Saying that it’s absolutely absurd that I could take a single point against someone like Serena is essentially saying that it’s absurd to suggest that there’s a decent chance Serena could make a mistake once in 48 points.

      I honestly don’t know how good those odds would be, but it doesn’t seem crazy to me to suggest it could happen in around 1/10 matches.

    • 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de
      5·
      2 months ago

      Fingers crossed they double fault at least once in their 24 service points, although I imagine they wouldn’t even use second serve power against some bozo

  • Lucky_777@lemmy.world
    322·
    3 months ago

    Man, unless you’re on the pro tour, you’re getting handled easily. Tennis is about angle knowledge and of course you have to be in top condition.

    Serena wipes the floor with the avg man and college level tennis players of all genders.

  • rickdg@lemmy.world
    9·
    3 months ago

    Men who don’t even play tennis fantasising about some monster power serve. That would get chopped off instantly.

  • dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net
    18·
    2 months ago

    Every time I see this I think, if I was asked my response would be “has she just had a limb amputated? If so, probably still no but maybe.”

  • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works
    75·
    3 months ago

    One in eight men who responded to the survey. Come on now probably only one in eight men even play tennis. More men play basketball for fucks sake

    • Skua@kbin.earth
      8·
      3 months ago

      Probably not a tonne of people responding to a British polling agency’s survey play basketball, but otherwise yeah. If we go by viewrship figures for the men’s final at Wimbledon, a little over an eighth of the country watches a game of tennis once a year

        • Skua@kbin.earth
          2·
          2 months ago

          Apparently our national men’s team is ranked 48th, in between fellow basketball titans Senegal and Sweden

          I guess we don’t really have a British equivalent that is a household name recognisable to non-fans in the way the Williams sisters are. We’ve got a few men who fit the bill, but that obviously doesn’t work for the question. If you need to name a woman that everyone immediately knows is really god damn good at tennis, one of the Williamses is probably gonna be the go-to regardless of where you ask