Lots of different things hold players back from winning GS titles.
For Venus Williams, its her 2nd serve. And her sister.
For Lindsay Davenport, it's lack of foot speed.
For Amelie Mauresmo, it's been health. (She just has to have 24 injury free months in row.)
Chanda Rubin and Anastasia Myskina, just don't generate big enough pace, easily enough. If you HAVE to throw your whole body into a shock to get big pace, it's hard to win seven GS matches in a row.
Having said all that, I think there are quite a few players who are being held back by their lack of tennis knowledge. They just don't know what shot to hit when to create an opportunity for a winner.
The top two candidates for this category have to be Kim Clijsters and Jennifer Capriati. The charge, whie having some validity, is not altogether fair. K and J both make relatively few attempts at winners, or shots close to the line, when facing elite opposition. At that level, it isn't easy to set up a point if you don't take risks. Even the slow players are too fast, and control the racket too well. But if you have the will to retrieve and take your winners as the Gods will, most players will either make an error eventually, or give you something to erase.
I've only seen Zvonareva once, so it's unfair to judge. Same with Petrova, but what I have seen seems to favor power over strategy. But it was only a couple games, so who's to say?
Certainly Hantuchova has forgotten whatever she knew about setting up points. She's another Dokic now. Well, that's not fair. It's more like, Dani and Jelena's games are identical-twin manic-depressive daughters of different mothers. Dani's game is the manic twin, which tells you how out-of-sorts Jelena's game is.
Alexandra Stevenson well, first we need to teach her that there's more to aiming than looking in that direction. But yes, eventually, a graduate level strategy-and-tactics-curriculum, and the South Beach Diet, could work wonders here.
You get the idea.
For Venus Williams, its her 2nd serve. And her sister.
For Lindsay Davenport, it's lack of foot speed.
For Amelie Mauresmo, it's been health. (She just has to have 24 injury free months in row.)
Chanda Rubin and Anastasia Myskina, just don't generate big enough pace, easily enough. If you HAVE to throw your whole body into a shock to get big pace, it's hard to win seven GS matches in a row.
Having said all that, I think there are quite a few players who are being held back by their lack of tennis knowledge. They just don't know what shot to hit when to create an opportunity for a winner.
The top two candidates for this category have to be Kim Clijsters and Jennifer Capriati. The charge, whie having some validity, is not altogether fair. K and J both make relatively few attempts at winners, or shots close to the line, when facing elite opposition. At that level, it isn't easy to set up a point if you don't take risks. Even the slow players are too fast, and control the racket too well. But if you have the will to retrieve and take your winners as the Gods will, most players will either make an error eventually, or give you something to erase.
I've only seen Zvonareva once, so it's unfair to judge. Same with Petrova, but what I have seen seems to favor power over strategy. But it was only a couple games, so who's to say?
Certainly Hantuchova has forgotten whatever she knew about setting up points. She's another Dokic now. Well, that's not fair. It's more like, Dani and Jelena's games are identical-twin manic-depressive daughters of different mothers. Dani's game is the manic twin, which tells you how out-of-sorts Jelena's game is.
Alexandra Stevenson well, first we need to teach her that there's more to aiming than looking in that direction. But yes, eventually, a graduate level strategy-and-tactics-curriculum, and the South Beach Diet, could work wonders here.
You get the idea.
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