The Tennis Star Who Faked His Entire "Career"
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Darko Grncarov had it all. Fame. Wealth. Insane Tennis Talent. Unbelievably, Darko was even on the cusp of an extraordinary professional tennis comeback after suffering a stroke induced coma. He had loyal fans, media outlets, and famous celebrities cheering his every move.
Behind the spectacle however, the stories, the diehard Darko fans, everything… was nothing. None of it was true, and in the today’s day and age where anyone can seemingly reinvent themselves overnight, a kid named Darko Grncarov managed to convince the world he was tennis’ next superstar… with nothing but a laptop.
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Due to much of the original press and public information on Darko having since been deleted, redacted, and privated, a considerable amount of this story’s journalism came from Ben Rothenberg’s original article. Check it out: slate.com/culture/2018/02/how...
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@@CULTTENNIS Roger Federer is third best of his era.
Darko Grncarov has never lost a match at any of the major tournaments. A true legend of the game.
Darko Grncarov has never lost a boxing match to Muhammad Ali. Fact
This remembers me a series of ads for Brazilian National rugby team (a game nobody here cares about) and a tennis brand, that had slogans like: "In 2009 Brazil lost to Chile by 70 to 3, in 2010 lost by 31 to 8, yeah Brazil humiliated Chile with a performance 79% better", "Brazil never lost to the super champions France and New Zealand in a South American tournament", "Brazilian rugby astonishes the world, in 2009 Brazil lost to Uruguay in 2010 Brazil 0, Uruguay 26. by 3 to 71, if the tendency persists in 2011 the result will be Brazil 17, Uruguay -19". And so on and so forth. They were so bad that they had to reinvent the ads.
Darko is UNDEFEATED against the big 3.
What an anticlimactic ending. The way more fun ending would've been if a tournament gave him a Wild Card due to his fame and he actually played and got exposed that way. Instead it's just a Rothenberg article.
rottenburg ruins it as usual
He may be a master liar but he's not that dumb 😂
Should’ve fakes his death or something. Build it up talking about concerns with his play and then have a family member state his death
Yes. The ending could have been "better" 😂
Ngl. That does sound far better.
LMAO this dude is a straight up genius and this just goes to show how gulible most people are
"genius"? You really have no idea what that word means.
@@kshillingford4921 i mean, he fooled pretty much the entire tennis community and got sponsors out of it 🤷🏿♂️
Pineapple liberals are
@@kshillingford4921 Not Genius. One of the greatest Con-Men ever existed.
@@nishanthvemula3852 you'd have to be a genius to be one of the greatest con-men to ever exist though lol
Another awesome video mate :) Would love to see Darko vs Tomic for ultimate 🐐 status haha
Hey cam
And the winner gets to face against Donald Young
Darko v. Tomic would require a CULT TENNIS takeover on TENNIS TALK for a day!
Wow I can’t believe he fooled adidas, can’t believe they wouldn’t look a little more into it
Makes you really think about how far you can go just by lying.
Darko is the true GOAT novak and rafa can only dream of getting on his level
Frrrr
Idk man it’s either him or Donald Young they gotta face each other
@@wdsa7129 Don't forget Artem Bahmet
@@wdsa7129 I laughed so hard when he memed donald young in his "battle of the surfaces" video xD
Incredibly based
He just said exactly what the elites wanted to hear, and they promoted him and gave him money.
Well played Darko. He understood perfectly how the world works, and tricked us all.
I am not sure if he received any money.
this!
Damn Im from Macedonia and this is the first time I hear about this guy and I know all of the guys in our country
lmao
north macedonia*
@@panagiotisanastasakis7908 The youth doesn't give a fuck, both macedonians and greeks. We're both poor as fuck dude...
Грција е наша МАКЕДОНСКА *grabs popcorn
@Panagiotis Anastasakis No one's ever gonna call it North Macedonia. We've known it as Macedonia all our lives, that's what it is.
Macedonian here and we celebrate our sport successes very passionately. I've never heard of this person until I saw this video.
Another banger video! How can someone do all that just for clout? That's nuts to have swindled big companies like that. Just goes to Fake it till you make it, then get caught and lose it all. fools.
Keep up the great work on these videos Cult Tennis! Good stuff!
More to come!!
Content is always fire. Thank you so much for having literal fantastic audio.
Come back soon!
Dude I'm from Macedonia (North, you peski greeks. Calm down, nobody cares) and i play tennis, I'm not into the world of tennis, i don't even follow the big names nor watch it on tv or whatever. I love the sport for what it is. But i hang with people who follow tennis religiosity, no one have ever mentioned this dude. This is marvelous story and it shows how powerful the internet is if you know what you're doing ... Great story, well told. You got yourself a new subscriber.
I never knew about this. Great video!
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Brilliant. He exposed social media for what it is.
God damn you never disappoint cult tennis! I had no idea about this WILD story!
Thanks for watching :)
Currently watching stef vs rba then yt notified me about this newly uploaded vid of cult tennis. Thanks for this!
I always get excited when I see that you uploaded a new video!
Always a great day when cult tennis posts
1 minute in and it's already looking like a banger. People who fake their backgrounds suck.
This video was Great!!! Your style of videos are perfect, keep up the great work
Thank you!
0:04 Correction: Jeremy Lin was never an all-star, although he sure played at that level for a few games. What could’ve been…Linsanity made New York believe again
Did non of y’all see Darko matched against Nadal where he won 6-4 6(7)-6(5) 6-2?
Your videos are always high quality. Keep ‘em coming!
Fantastic video as always. You really deserve more subs!
Darko’s story reminds me of that one lady Tia Norfleet that bamboozled everyone into thinking she was a legitimate NASCAR driver and I think CNN interviewed her without doing a shred of due diligence on her and checking her out. That’s what lead her to her downfall was going on CNN. Sadly, she’s still online running with the lie.
Been waiting for some time for your new video!!!
Another superb video, bravo.
Another great video. Cheers.
You always make interesting videos!
Haven’t even watched the vid but I already know this will be a banger 🔥
Lol Darko just took advantage of our plagued virtual signalling society and I applaud him for it... Absolutely hilarious. Not much different from what Jessie Smollett tried to pull off.
Very well done and great content as always
Nahhh this dude really finnessed the entire tennis world 💀
One thing is for a newspaper to want to run with a story another thing is to fool players and racquet companies. It takes one second of watching him to know it’s a hoax.
I love how "Kallang, Singapore" is listed as though it's a city within a country... Kallang is just a neighbourhood in our tiny city state haha
Awesome video! I will also consider subscribing to Nebula solely because of the second channel, you are the only tennis channel I watch and like.
When you watch Catch Me If You Can and think...f**k it
The algorithm brought me here. I'm not into Tennis, nor sports in general, but this is a very fascinating video!
Congrats on the nebula stuff!
It is a good day when CULT TENNIS posts
Great video!
Imagine pulling this off in any field. Possibilities are endless
I love your channel and is also incredible that My country El Salvador appear :)
The sad thing is, you know people who called him out early would be met with a dozen variations of "You really think someone would lie about this??" in replies.
Man these scams are not only in sports, but also in other fields as well. This scam reminds me of another scam which was pulled of due to lack of investigation by media before reporting
Amazing video! Please do one on David nalbandian!!!
The internet doesn't lie.. ( but I guess in this case it does)... lol
I would have figured this guy out right away I always look up someone's record when they tell me they've done this and that.... I've had so many people tell me stories about oh I used to be ranked top 500 in the world... come on.. I played every week for 10 years... I would have seen you... I then sayto them, "okay when did you change your name??"
😊🤣😂😅
Also if this Darko character really wanted to fool people he could have had somebody that nobody knows play matches for him and win matches for him under his name!
Lol
🤣🤣
ITF results don't lie 😂
@@CULTTENNIS you should hear the stories people have told me about what they were ranked....
I would say.. "when did you change your name??" 😅
Every time you upload it makes me so happy.
Yeah!
Wow, the social media's power!!
I dont think he kept his twitter private. He actually privated it for like a month after the story came out and then continued right after as if nothing happened. Obviously just tweeting out generic stuff about the Williams sisters as always. Now I even see his twitter handle is completely gone.
Awesome video
When you're showing the various Instagram posts, it's quite clear from reading some of the comments that he's got bot accounts replying to and liking his stuff, all driving engagement and increasing "legitimacy". It's an incredibly common tactic used among those trying to fake fame until they become famous for real.
I just started tennis and I only watch this channel
Glad you found the channel!
I already knew who this was about. I followed this in real time. haha
wake up babe new cult tennis video just dropped
This is one of the most well-researched and entertaining tennis video I’ve watched
This is the only tennis video Ive ever watched
Well he became famous in some way in the end and honestly that's dope.
I'd pay to watch Serena v Darko.🤔
I can't believe I've never heard of this dude!
Jeremy lin was never an all-star in the NBA, only once in the CBA
This is one of the coolest videos I've seen, my respects to the guy for fooling almost everyone, I'm happy he got caught tho 😂
All i can say is that there is a surprising lack of due diligence at a lot of levels
i was waiting for you to cover this. crazy how easy it is to fool people with the internet
I'm curious how much money he got at the end of everything ? Cult Tennis says "he wasn't doing it for the money", implying he made 0. Someone got some info?
Im pretty sure it was recently found out that one of the top reporters in Germany was actually a fake persona. Crazy what people can pull off online
Never heard of this guy before this vid
The sign was there from the beginning in the tweets from 2017 he’s 20 but if only a year before he was 17 that doesn’t work
Dude out there provint that the "verified" on twitter don't mean shit lol
Was that guy you showed as the high level junior kokkinakis?
We live in a society where reallity does not matter anymore. -what counts is perception. You don't need things to happens, you just need to create the perception of that in people's mind. This is the result of living in a completely fake and futile society, where the image you project is what matters and if you create the perception that you are a tennis prodigy, people will believe and act accordingly without you having to show them your tennis skills a single time. If the internet and social media say he's a tennis prodigy, then he's a tennis prodigy even if he can't play tennis!
LOL
Sounds like any election: creating fake news, profiles on different platforms, followers, tweets, retweets, shares, etc!
The saddest thing to me is... if this guy built himself up like this and actually could play tennis? even if he was like, barely top 500 ranked,,, he'd be getting top 100 money and sponsorships cause of how well he played it. Honestly,,, like it's genius what he did but, it woulda been pretty wild if he actually was training to play and at least tried to improve and get wildcards etc. Instead he just wanted to troll people for some short lived fame.
People can be so easily deceived.
Liars and frauds are easily swindled and duped by other liars and frauds.
The tennis version of the Talented Mr Ripley lol
He pulled a Lorenzo Von Matterhorn
the carlos kaiser of tennis, what a legend
Never heard of him. The only Darko II know is Donnie Darko.
I know a man who has invented himself to be a former military medic. He's gone to small town newspapers with his story and since these guys don't check, his lies are published. He points to these articles and photos of him on tourist events as proof of his story. He has used these lies to get access to critical care patients, despite never flying the missions he claims. It's startling easy to set up a false identity.
Reminds me of that woman who pretended to be a 9/11 survivor or the one that pretended to be black and faked getting threats and harassment as a social activist. Also the cancelled Comedy Central show where a guy made up the company that sold pre sneezed tissues
I thought I’d the 9/11 story as well and she kept that up for 3 years, became the president of a survivor group and even gave a tour to the frikkin mayor of NY on live tv. It’s insane the lengths people will go!
The way you pronounced Troicki bruh
People get upset when u treat them the way they treat you and then they call u fraud and fake. It's all a character play . It's a well played out strategy.
Yep, the pen is mightier than the sword.
The Carlos Henrique Raposo of Tennis
Although I can't say with certainty it was the case in this particular instance, more often than not, these types of events are intelligence agency's thought experiments.
Ain’t gone lie to you chief, I am not ever going to touch nebula or this curious shit though I like your vids
I wonder what was even the objective of this... This amount of scamming isn't cheap to make
Huh what a weird story
Darko is HIM, the undefeated GOAT
the only thing worse than a sham artist is somone who fakes caring tomake money...wait... the irony isgoingto be lost on you all here.
wow
The man gaslit adidas into a brand deal, I think that's pretty goated
The media should feel ashamed, but they don't.
Epic troll. Go Darko!
Not so hard to fake a fake world anymore
I'd just like to let everyone know I'll be back in the NBA soon. LeBron keeps saying he can't get that last title til I'm back. I'm coming big fella! 😂
this just goes to show how stupid and toxic politics are and how stupid and ignorant most people are. These guy played the right kinds of people right into his hands.
I'm gonna recreate this for another sport.
Ur Channel reminds me of sb. I actually had 2 check & see who made this video. Goodshit
He really knew how to play Twitter.