Schiavone.. proud to be Italian

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rhz

Discussion Starter · Sep 2, 2003

Both her and Garbin often have Italian flag on their outfit on and off the court, the funny thing is that both of them have the same late grunt. Are there any other players that wears her country's flag on her on her matches??

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Zvonerevian

· #2 · Sep 2, 2003

Her Hingis-esque game is drool-worthy. And she is an absolute nightmare for the top players.

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Lindsayfan

· #3 · Sep 2, 2003

it isnt a shirt with italian flag!!it's the official jersey of italian football team!!

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Monsters

· #4 · Sep 2, 2003

Zvonerevian said:
Her Hingis-esque game is drool-worthy. And she is an absolute nightmare for the top players.

she makes far too many mistakes for a Hingis wannabe,
and she is not nearly fast enough,
maybe that one-handed BH generates spins/slices,
that doesnt qualify her as Hingis-esque, nope,
understand this is my idol you are talking about,
GO HINGIS

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Wojtek

· #5 · Sep 2, 2003

Monsters said:
she makes far too many mistakes for a Hingis wannabe,
and she is not nearly fast enough,
maybe that one-handed BH generates spins/slices,
that doesnt qualify her as Hingis-esque, nope,
understand this is my idol you are talking about,
GO HINGIS

She is very fast but her game is totally different than Hingis. She used a lot of top spins from both sides.

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Dava

· #6 · Sep 2, 2003

I think Fran looks like Zhanna Block.

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MartinaI

· #7 · Sep 2, 2003

Frannie's cool! Yes that is the official Italian warm-up football strip, and she does look like Zhanna doesn't she! I guess she is sponsored by Fila, I suppose they do the football stuff too cos they are Italian. Italian footballers, yum!!

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Fantastic

· #8 · Sep 2, 2003

I was going to say Zhanna Block too. If Zhanna Block and Sporty Spice had a lovechild, she would probably look like Francesca Schiavone.

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Joseosu19

· #9 · Sep 2, 2003

Francesca

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ys

· #10 · Sep 2, 2003

She has perhaps the coolest grunt.

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mexicotrip

· #11 · Sep 2, 2003

ys said:
She has perhaps the coolest grunt.

She does! I love her grunt.

Funny thing is she only grunts on larger courts (ala would grunt on Grandstand and not on court no.5)

She also grunts more on slower surfaces (ala Clay)

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Bероника

· #12 · Sep 2, 2003

Go Francesca!!!

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Joana

· #13 · Sep 2, 2003

Go Francesca the lioness!!! :hearts:

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spinner

· #14 · Sep 2, 2003

She was wearing a black shirt like that when i saw her at Eastbourne

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antonella

· #15 · Sep 2, 2003

Funny thing is she only grunts on larger courts

:lol:

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JR

· #16 · Sep 3, 2003

Whatever, Rita's the Italian who's :drool:

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fammmmedspin

· #17 · Sep 3, 2003

Was Martina faster than Francesca? Interestingly Francesca serves as slowly as Hingis lots of the time but if Hingis could have hit the 108 and 1 112mph serves Francesca has been banging in from her height of 5'6 Martina (who is taller) wouldn't have had so much trouble with the power players. Give Martina Francesca's serving speed and fighting spirit and give Francesca Martina's consistency and you would have two hell of a players.

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Monsters

· #18 · Sep 3, 2003

fammmmedspin said:
Was Martina faster than Francesca? Interestingly Francesca serves as slowly as Hingis lots of the time but if Hingis could have hit the 108 and 1 112mph serves Francesca has been banging in from her height of 5'6 Martina (who is taller) wouldn't have had so much trouble with the power players. Give Martina Francesca's serving speed and fighting spirit and give Francesca Martina's consistency and you would have two hell of a players.

er.....you do understand Martina was one of the
fastest play on court when she ruled over the world

Francesca is no Hingis, maybe she can slice/top spin the balls,
but that will only qualify her as Henin-Hardenne-esque,
not Hingis-esque, there are some shots Hingis has that
Francesca can only dream of having

LUV YA HINGIS :hearts:

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