Do you know what’s even better than watching a regular match? Checking out Incredibly awkward sports photos and memes! It’s as much fun as the sports themselves, and players and fans have contributed to many of these hilarious photos.

While sportspeople cannot prevent many of these accidents and bloopers, some are just oversights and could have been avoided. In this gallery of epic sports pictures, you’ll find not just awkward moments in different sports but also the length sports fans will go to show their love and support for their beloved team.

Tennis Man

While looking at this photo, we don’t want to believe that this tennis player is actually trying to catch the ball with his mouth. Though it’s easier just to take this photo at face value, it’s undoubtedly one of those shots captured at just the right time.

Even if we’re sure the player is not about to swallow the ball, what happened in the next second is probably not so good; seeing the speed at which the ball is coming towards him, unless that too, is also a trick of the camera.