1 in 8 men think they could score a point on Serena Williams in a tennis match

This isn't even 1/8 men.. this is 1/8 men surveyed. What's the population? Seems UK orientated.

Still likely 12% could probably get a single point in a match. Luck alone would state you'd probably get a point - she's not that great at moving around; only over-powering weaker women. She could over-power me I'm sure in tennis ball speed but who knows if I can't get lucky to place one she doesn't want to run for.

At a minimum there is 4 shots to a game, 6 games to a set and 2 min sets to a match. Don't think you can get lucky in 48 tries?

And this is beyond her double faulting because I'm sure she'd just aim to take something off and get it in for sure.

Just Another Hobby Jogger wrote:

MeHereYouWhere?! wrote:

Next survey should be:

Would you be able to hit a pitch from Jacob deGrom?

I'd bet 1 in 8 would say "yes" to that, too.

Morons.

A better question: can you hit a pitch by Cat Osterman?

1 out of 8 men would say "yes." And they might be able to make one contact with 20-30 swings.

How come MLB pitchers bat over .100 then? You assume that someone with no talent for hitting a baseball would strike out every single time. MLB pitchers’ natural hitting ability is probably no better than any other random man’s, because they are in the league for a reason that has no correlation with the ability to hit a baseball.

kartelite wrote:

How come MLB pitchers bat over .100 then? You assume that someone with no talent for hitting a baseball would strike out every single time. MLB pitchers’ natural hitting ability is probably no better than any other random man’s, because they are in the league for a reason that has no correlation with the ability to hit a baseball.

The natural hitting ability of MLB pitchers is way above an average guy playing in the weekend rec league.

DontFeedTheTroll wrote:

LiarLiar wrote:

The actual text of the question is as below

"Do you think if you were playing your very best tennis, you could win a point off Serena Williams?"A bunch of issues with that question, least of which is the word COULD. Not "would", but "could". 100% of people COULD win a point of Serena.

That's an unnecessarily pedantic reading of the question. I assume you also believe you could beat Eliud Kipchoge in a marathon? Or win Western States?

If your hypothetical involves everyone else dying, leaving you the winner by default, then I think we are stretching the definition of "could" to its breaking point.

No, I agree with LiarLiar's interpretation.

And did anybody actually look at that link? It doesn't even say that 1 in 8 men think they could win a point. It says 7% think they could, 81% think they couldn't, and 12% don't know. That doesn't exactly make it sound like men as a group are totally delusional. If you throw out the "don't knows", that's 1 in 14 men think they could score a point. I'm sure they're not off by that much.

Also, scoring a point off Williams and beating Kipchoge is a bad comparison. As many have commented, you only have to win a point, not a match. There is not really anything about a segment of a marathon that is analogous to a point in tennis. You can't get lucky and run a particular mile in 4:30, or whatever.

I think it's Dopey how confident people are that she would be able to win 48 straight points, and that it's crazy that 12% of the population thinks that they could stop this from happening

Any guy 15 to 40 who is in good shape and has some skill at tennis would have a pretty good chance of stopping her from getting 48 straight points.

I'm pretty average at tennis , at my best I served hard , and could slam like a MF, would definitely make her screw up a few return of serves , and even if she gave a weak shot here or there, something's coming back that nobody can deal with. Could shut me out on a game here or there maybe a good number of them , but I would average around point a game, maybe more.

I’m certain I can score a point off of SW.

I’m certain I couldn’t score a single point off of Chen Meng, the top ranked female table tennis player. And I am a much better table tennis player than tennis player

Serena wouldn’t break the top 300 male tennis players

Chen Meng would be inside the top 50

MidFootStriker wrote:

I think it's Dopey how confident people are that she would be able to win 48 straight points, and that it's crazy that 12% of the population thinks that they could stop this from happening

Any guy 15 to 40 who is in good shape and has some skill at tennis would have a pretty good chance of stopping her from getting 48 straight points.

The way to get a point would be to hit for the hills off every ball. The law of averages suggest one will eventually go in for a winner or force an error.

Many people watch greats play and they believe they can do well against them. Serena is incredible.