What's up with the "tennis isn't a real sport" meme, Sup Forums?

What's up with the "tennis isn't a real sport" meme, Sup Forums?
It's just plain retarded.

>individual
>no physical contact
>you don't even touch the ball with your hands/feet

It's a sport but a sport for faggots

Not only it is a sport it's easily one of the most physically demanding

Don't listen to Sup Forums, they're wrong about everything

>one of the most physically demanding
LOL

Athletes in the Olympics played everydays and twice a day

In real sprots like football or rugby that'd be impossible

Retarded, as I wrote.

this white guy is right. is chess an sport?

In tennis that's impossible too unless you're in your absolute prime

Performance drops like crazy in the semis

And only best of three are ever played without days of rest, five setters would be killing athletes

Rafa "JUST" Nadal did it in the last Olympics and he's past his prime

So did del Potro and he just came from an injury (being #141 of the world)

Rafa did what? He won in 2008 and that was his peak year

Fed came second in 2014 and that was precisely because he was tired as fuck by the final, he lost due to exhaustion

Rafa played more minutes than anyone else, he won the gold in doubles and ended 4th in solo

because he takes forever to play, that's his own problem

6-2 6-1, 90 minutes? that's his own issue.

I think he was the only one playing literally all matches, in the Olympics if you end 4th you play as many matches as if you win it

He did it both in doubles and singles, some days playing multiple times

Greatest sport imo

team competitions are sports
individual ones are games

Says who?

Americans aren't good at it = it's not a sport

everyone

Is doubles a sport?

You should've said something like non-contact ones are games, step up

At the moment sure but in the history of tennis Americans are far and away the most dominate

But Americans are good are tennis, they're not the only ones who affirm this bullshit.

It seems so.

It is but it's just a bit dull mate

And I say this even as the greatest is an Englishman