Re: Ricardo Piatti : Maria Sharapova Is Now Fully Healed & Ready To Attack 2020
hats off to the Monster if she can reconfigure her awkward technique at age 33 to make herself competetive again. Venus Williams has considerably improved her forehand technique in her late career. It's hard for me to imagine this really happening though. Her game is all about brute force.
hats off to the Monster if she can reconfigure her awkward technique at age 33 to make herself competetive again. Venus Williams has considerably improved her forehand technique in her late career. It's hard for me to imagine this really happening though. Her game is all about brute force.
She's 32. Quit trying to make her older so Serena seems relatively young. 32 is prime. See Djokovic (32) and Nadal (33). Kerber is turning 32 very soon as well. Age is not a limit anymore. Technology and modern fitness really do prolong a modern athlete's physical peak. As long as she's hitting hard and deep, she'll be able to dictate and send pushers running from sea to shining sea and not let players like Andreescu and Bencic play their game.
You know she won't stoop to those levels. She will be in Honolulu playing Kerber and Andreescu to start her season but first, Abu Dhabi to play Anisimova. That's the best prep she could have. 125K...lol. In case you missed it, she is done for 2019 and already onto 2020.
Re: Ricardo Piatti : Maria Sharapova Is Now Fully Healed & Ready To Attack 2020
The collaboration with Piatti is a joke. Piatti is only using Sharapova's name to promote his academy. Instead of training, she took off and went on a safari in Africa. He claims that he gave her some "homework" to do while she was surrounded by wild animals LOL
The collaboration with Piatti is a joke. Piatti is only using Sharapova's name to promote his academy. Instead of training, she took off and went on a safari in Africa. He claims that he gave her some "homework" to do while she was surrounded by wild animals LOL
At least Piatti actually works with his players and all the ATP players he coached had their career best seasons. Patrick Mouratoglou can only wish to be that good.
Sorry, I am a big fan of hers and would love this to be true but I just don't see it. Every year since her comeback we get the same story that she is healed and ready to make a big splash and we see some flashes but they never last and it just hasn't panned out. Her body started troubling her way back in 2015 when she missed the USO, and ever since then it has been difficult to stay on the court, even when taking the drug suspension into account. Unfortunately I believe she is done. The sooner she realizes this the better off she will be imo. At the moment she is just going to embarrass herself out there.
Her body troubled her since 2007. She's won three grand slams since then and Wimbledon and AO and FO finals. Serve has been hit and miss since 2007 too.
Embarrassing would be to cower in a corner and give up and let her haters win. Nope. Not gonna happen. Not now, not ever.
If anyone says "Sorry, I'm a big fan of hers"...that's a lie. Especially if they mention drugs. No real fan would ever even entertain the fake news "drug" suspension.
What's "fake" about her suspension? Did you miss the bit where she wasn't allowed to play tournament tennis for more than a year?
And I have news for you - Meldonium (or whatever other name it goes by) IS a drug. You can debate the circumstances of her suspension until the cows come home, but the simple truth is that she failed a "drug" test - she didn't fail a "herbal supplement" test, or a "vitamin" test or any other kind of test.
A point I made in one of her fan threads that I ended up in by accident was that true fans acknowledge ALL the qualities of the object of their affection - good or bad - and they don't make excuses for their bad behaviour, because they know that their idol is human, and can therefore make mistakes. Anyone who does otherwise is a sycophant, not a fan.
Sharapova was so certain that Meldonium was harmless and not worth worrying about that she delberately left it off her WTA drug use forms - even BEFORE it was banned! What staggered me even more in the report of the inquiry which led to her ban was that she also lied to her family (except her father) about taking it. What on earth was she worried about if it was (and presumably still is) so innocuous? The irony is that, if she HAD listed it as a regular part of her diet, and had let other members of her family or entourage know that she was taking it, she almost certainly would not have been banned - because enough people would have realised that Meldonium was now on the prohibited list, and they could have told her and started looking for an alternative.
We'll have to wait and see. The comeback has been dogged with injury and now she will have to play qualies/ITFs and get wild cards to get back into the top 100. Over half her points come from reaching last 16 AO last year so if she does not defend those, she will be out of the top 250 even more dependent on WCs.
That also means she'll only appear in the major events with both men and women draw together. Plus she can conveniently retire anytime she wants and Piatti will still be there for Sinner.:shrug: Even if she plays without her coach, one can be assured she'll retire halfway during the tournament after getting the appearance fee.:shrug:
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