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Originally Posted by tildeloltilde
She's on ESPN way too much for me. She just stated, "The Ivanovic Radwanska match will be interesting since they both have the same type of game."
I don't think I've ever heard a more incorrect statement...
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If you won EIGHTEEN slam singles titles, maybe, just maybe, from your persepctive, they DO have the same type of game.
It's going to come as a shock to a lot of people here, but Chris Evert knows WAY more about tennis than almost anyone on the this forum. He father was a coach, she grew up in the game, and she was one of the foremost practitioners of it.
If she says they have the same type of game, and you DON'T see that, the objective response is that YOU need to look harder. Unless you're Margaret Court, Steffi Graf, Billie Jean King, Martina Navratilova or Serena, there is NO doubt Chris Evert opinion is more educated than yours. NO doubt.
You don't have to like her, but if you don;t see what she sees, chances are you're the one that's blind, not her.
NOTE: BJK and Arthur Ashe were my tennis heroes. I
hated when Evert supplanted BJK. But Chris Evert had more influence on the on-court-game of women's tennis than any other player in history. She MADE women's tennis a baseline game. (Not a virtue, but a reality.) She's an Authority. Haters gonna hate, but they gotta know that's all they got.