Counting down the "top" five racquet smashes of 2020 ends up being an abbreviated research project, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Even so, whether angrily bashing their battle ax ahead of gathering emotions for the win or ahead of dropping a match, players had their reasons for acting out a bit.
The No. 5 entry doesn't involve destruction so much as handcraft. In a gravity-meets–motor skills display, Benoit Paire bounced his racquet once, twice ... four times ... in angry-but-dainty fashion, as if his tennis stick were a rider-less pogo stick.
The incident came on February 25 in the Dubai Tennis Championships, as shown by this lukewarm-, low-, and highlight reel: