Talk:Mark Philippoussis

This article must adhere to the biographies of living persons (BLP) policy, even if it is not a biography, because it contains material about living persons. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted, or if you have other concerns, please report the issue to this noticeboard.

If you are a subject of this article, or acting on behalf of one, and you need help, please see this help page.

This article is rated B-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Biography: Sports and Games

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
	Sports portal This article is supported by the sports and games work group (assessed as Mid-importance).

Tennis Mid‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Tennis, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of articles that relate to tennis on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.TennisWikipedia:WikiProject TennisTemplate:WikiProject Tennistennis articles

Mid

This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Tennis To-do:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Cleanup : Take an item off the Cleanup listing
Copyedit : Roger Federer, Leander Paes, Rafael Nadal, Justine Henin – to be used as examples for ideal page structures
Expand : Grab a Start article and expand it, or peruse the List of articles.
Photo : Add photos to Tennis or Tennis people articles
Stubs : Bring a Stub up to our standards.
Other : *Sign up as a member of the project.
Tag more articles with our standard project template.
Help with the creation of yearly main articles and drawsheets for every Open Era ATP and WTA tournament.

Australia: Sports Low‑importance

	Australia portal Mark Philippoussis is within the scope of WikiProject Australia, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Australia and Australia-related topics. If you would like to participate, visit the project page.AustraliaWikipedia:WikiProject AustraliaTemplate:WikiProject AustraliaAustralia articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by WikiProject Australian sports (assessed as Low-importance).
	Need help improving this article? Ask a Librarian^{What's this?} at the National Library of Australia.
	The Wikimedia Australia chapter can be contacted via email to helpwikimedia.org.au for non-editorial assistance.

Olympics

	Olympic Games portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Olympics, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Olympics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.OlympicsWikipedia:WikiProject OlympicsTemplate:WikiProject OlympicsOlympics articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.
	This article has been automatically rated by a bot or other tool because one or more other projects use this class. Please ensure the assessment is correct before removing the `\|auto=` parameter.

Age of Love

We should add something in terms of his personal life since he will be starring in NBC's new reality show, the age of love

Scud?

I was of the understanding that the nickname "The Scud" was made up to try to dissuade people from calling him "The Poo" due to Mark's objections to such a excremental nickname, yet this is not mentioned in the article.. Anonymous 21:32 AEDST

You sure, the Poo is only a recent nickname, popular around 2003. He's been known as the Scud all his career due to the sound it makes when he serves at 220-odd k/s an hour. Rogerthat 02:02, 14 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I can't find a reference, but he doesn't like the nick name "scud" either. It was a comparison to the Iraqi missiles used during the first gulf war and was a reference to the missiles' destructive although erratic nature. Mark's preferred nick name is "Flip". Codeviolation 18:30, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You're right, he doesn't particurlary like the nickname Scud and perfers his mates to call him "Flip". If my memory serves me correctly, the name Scud was coined by John Newcombe. This would also explain why he doesn't like it! Unfortunatley the nickname has stuck.

"fast women"

"...reported penchant for fast cars...and fast women"

Ok... that parallelism seems a bit forced. It gives me a different idea than what the author is possibly conveying. --Menchi 10:16, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Somebody took "fast" out. --Menchi 04:39, 4 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I've done this so many times already so I'm not going to do it to this article, but can someone please re-order the events in decending order? Thanks. dave 03:53, 4 Dec 2003 (UTC)

We need a standard infobox for tennis players

We need a standard infobox for tennis players. Height does not fit into the text. It needs an infobox. --Hemanshu 04:51, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Cleanup (tagged since January 2006)

I tagged this article for cleanup for two reasons:

A lot of it is unencyclopedic (e.g. "Philippoussis' style of play is to hit every shot hard, and this accomplished by his amazing natural ability. Many players hit serves hard, but only Mark Philippoussis can hit a groundstroke at the same speed.")
The statistics need formatting

Trevor Andersen 01:58, 4 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fastest Serve

Why is there no mention made in this article that (at least at some point in his career) Mark Philippoussis was notoriously known as having the fastest serve? (I've just added it after his personal best serve speed) 74.12.81.69 04:23, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Style

Was this written by someone that writes for True Hollywood Story? "The honeymoon period with the Australian public, however, did not last."? This style seems wholly inappropriate. FilmFemme 18:42, 17 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Seniors

Why isn't there anything about his seniors tour career where he lost to Mcenroe —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.121.102.73 (talk) 03:47, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Active?

Actually how is he active? His last tournament (according to the article) was in February 2010, almost two years ago. Though it can be possible this article has not been edited since that. Strangely there is a claim "This page was last modified on 12 January 2012 at 07:23.", surely that can mean anything. 82.141.93.98 (talk) 13:21, 20 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 3 external links on Mark Philippoussis. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 12:55, 3 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Nick’s rape charges

What is the consensus on adding a brief mention of former tennis coach Nick Philippoussis’ rape charges to the article? Nick is, of course, Mark’s father. Cheers. Rovingrobert (talk) 14:14, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]