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I watched the Foxsports taped coverage of this match today and tried to figure out why I find Justine Henin to be such an exciting player.
There are a lot of reasons actually, but I decided one is because Justine looks so DIFFERENT when she plays. Her strokes are different, that shocking one-handed backhand, that arm swinging way up, her body is crouching low, curling tight and uncoiling like a whip, and I don't know what she is going to do next! it is SO much fun to witness!
The downside of this revelation was the realization that most of the top women players now play one game. Martina Hingis was different until she somehow lost her creativity and desire; Tauziat is different, but the networks don't show her too much because she is not pretty, I guess. Monica has those two hands on both sides and when she is on fire she still hits those breathtaking angles, but she doesn't consistently find her fire, and then she's like all the rest.
So we are left with a bunch of power-hitting baseliners slugging it out, running each other back and forth across the baseline, blah blah.
So I say ALLEZ JUSTINE!! Keep playing, keep fighting, keep winning, so that little girls might want to play like YOU someday, and entertain us couch potatoes for years to come!
(also posted at Tennis Week!)
There are a lot of reasons actually, but I decided one is because Justine looks so DIFFERENT when she plays. Her strokes are different, that shocking one-handed backhand, that arm swinging way up, her body is crouching low, curling tight and uncoiling like a whip, and I don't know what she is going to do next! it is SO much fun to witness!
The downside of this revelation was the realization that most of the top women players now play one game. Martina Hingis was different until she somehow lost her creativity and desire; Tauziat is different, but the networks don't show her too much because she is not pretty, I guess. Monica has those two hands on both sides and when she is on fire she still hits those breathtaking angles, but she doesn't consistently find her fire, and then she's like all the rest.
So we are left with a bunch of power-hitting baseliners slugging it out, running each other back and forth across the baseline, blah blah.
So I say ALLEZ JUSTINE!! Keep playing, keep fighting, keep winning, so that little girls might want to play like YOU someday, and entertain us couch potatoes for years to come!
(also posted at Tennis Week!)
