Originally posted by Fingon:<br /><strong>Big Lindsay, I believe you haven't seem Justine, she doesn't have a big swing.
And she hits the slice as much or more than the topspin, she wins many points with it.
Saying that she got to the finals of Wimbledon because there are not more serve and volleyers does not make sense, if that the case, there are not serve and volleyers in Linz, so, I mentioned Wimbledon to demonstrate that she can play in a fast surface against today's player. If you use the argument of the lack of serve and volleyers then, your argument that Linz is fast is not valid. Why would it apply to Wimbledon and not to here? my point is, can she play and win on a fast surface? the answer is obviously yes.
Also, Justine can hit winner out of nowhere, much more than Jelena, I have seen both players and yes, Jelena can hit winners occassionally without setup, but off the backhand, Justine hits a lot of winner with the first shot.</strong><hr></blockquote>
You can believe that I have not seen Justine play before, but do not bet your house on it old friend (LOL). We simply disagree on everything here, I still say Justine has a big wind up, and that she usually hits out on the backhand, as opposed to slicing it.
Justine hit more slice backhands against Lindsay because she had to, less time to hit the big back swing. As for Henin reaching the Wimbledon final, what I mean't was since the serve and volleyer is virtually extinct, Wimbledon is played mostly from the baseline in the womens matches, if Justine played Wimbledon when players like Navratilova, Novotna, Shriver, Mandlikova and Sukova were at thier peaks ... Henin would not be in the final.
Look at the people Henin beat to win the Heineken Trophy, Dechy, Bovina, Tulyaganova and Clijsters, I bet you could have counted the number of passing shots Justine had to hit on one hand. Anyways, I hope you see my point Fingon, you don't have to agree ... just see it. <img src="smile.gif" border="0">