Top 10 Tennis Racquet Smashers

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1. Marcos Baghdatis
Down a break in the third set against Stan Wawrinka on Wednesday night, the frustrated Baggy slumped in his courtside chair and smashed four racquets in about 20 seconds, not even bothering to take the last two out their protective (sniff!) plastic.

2. Marat Safin
He was formerly famous for splintering his Head racquets - 48 smashed frames in 1999 the unofficial record. Marat estimated he'd sent over 1000 racquets to the big tennis court in the sky. But the charismatic Russian did it with class. 'Today I smash racquets, for tomorrow we die,' he mused.

3. Goran Ivanisevic
The endearingly loopy Croat made history as the only player to be defaulted from a tournament due to 'lack of equipment'. At the Samsung Open in Brighton, UK, in late 2000, Goran had binned all his racquets by the middle of the third set, and his opponent refused to lend him a stick. 'Mr Ivanisevic cannot continue because of lack of appropriate equipment,' announced the umpire.

4. John McEnroe
Against Swede Mikael Pernfors at Australian Open 1990, McEnroe hurled his racquet to the court, then argued he shouldn't have been penalised a point as the stick was cracked, not broken (he'd already received a warning for intimidating a linesperson) The referee and supervisor were called to the court, McEnroe failed to persuade them and then verbally abused the officials as they left the arena. Seconds later he was sensationally defaulted for the first time in his Grand Slam career.

5. Novak Djokovic
The dominant new No.1 lost it at his racquet at Wimbledon in a third-round dog-fight against Baghdatis. On the soft turf, three whacks were required for the break. Novak usually goes the double-whack, as demonstrated in the 2010 US Open final and several other tournament sites.

6. Andy Roddick
The skill with which the A-Rod busted his racquet en route to a loss against No.160 Flavio Cipolla at Madrid last May, and an earlier 2007 effort in Memphis show plenty of experience in the caper.

7. Fernando Gonzalez
The 2007 Australian Open finalist with the ballistic forehand destroyed racquets at Rome and Indian Wells in 2009. But when Gonzo trashed his equipment during a 2010 loss to Andy Roddick in Rod Laver Arena, a lucky fan scored a souvenir.

8. Vera Zvonareva
The Muscovite went into a famous meltdown during a 6-0 6-3 final loss to Sam Stosur at Charleston in 2010. Her racquet was hurled to the green clay and broken, then tossed and finally kicked under her courtside chair.

9. Roger Federer
As recently as 2009, a packed stadium in Miami went into shock when the Swiss maestro mangled his Wilson during a semifinal with Novak Djokovic. Federer lost 6-3 in the third. Whoever salvaged the racquet has a priceless treasure.

10. Mikhail Youzhny
At Miami in 2008, Youzhny was in a heated fight with Nicolas Almagro when he decided to give his racquet three whacks - against his head. Amazingly, his bonce came off worse; a trainer was required to stem a trickle of blood and apply bandages. The insanity may have knocked some sense into him; Youzhny won in a third-set tiebreak.

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[gherbi hicham]

I think Baghdatis was trying to break some kind of a record 

[MrRazorblade999]

3:16 Baghdatis smiling and thinking "what a racquet smasher amateur"

[Joe Mama]

I`m mad Marcos Baghdatis broke that many racquets.

[João LIns]

green stabilo on the safin one there. great fucking pen. just great.

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[Max Higa]

He broke something....

[stiverni]

Lol poor djoker couldn't break it.  (Yes, I know it was the grass)

[stiverni]

Wow Baghdatis is a little turd in this video

[XxLilBxX1]

Even if I had many racquets I would never smash any of them.

[RedneckGladiator]

#10 is a kind of berserker.

If my memory is correct

, he won after smashing his head that hard.

[Kristy Stephens]

so hottttttt