Sandy Farquharson explains why underdogs in tennis have a real edge: when you have nothing to lose and the crowd behind you, the pressure flips to the favorite. Wildcards beating top-ranked opponents isn't luck, it's psychology.
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Yeah, and sometimes when you go in, we talked about the start about being an underdog and you've got nothing to lose. I think sometimes that can be such an advantage to have nothing to lose. You've got the home crowd behind you. Those are some of the conditions that you can see some, some big upsets. And yeah, it is going to be tough matches, but I think for all of them, what an experience. I think that's, that's the biggest thing from this is that, you know, potentially they could be drawing some of the best players in the world and to to get on the same court as them and to have nothing to lose. Let's see what happens.
Yeah, they'd never get that opportunity, right? What an opportunity for them to go on and to play these players like on the Grandstand Court and they'll no doubt be put on a central or on a stadium court.
And those pairs in Maine will feel the pressure. There's always pressure. I think that when you don't know the pairs that you're playing and you're playing a wildcard pair, you should be winning that. There's that idea in your mind like, I should be beating this pair. And when you have that, there's a bit of pressure. Let's see, let's see what happens.