"As Bollettieri, who has masterminded the careers of plenty of hard-hitters, including Monica Seles and Mary Pierce, eloquently put it: “She beats the f****** crap out of the ball.” But it wasn’t the sheer force of her ground strokes — the same strokes that rocked Serena Williams, the Mike Tyson of women’s tennis, back on her heels on Saturday — that already set Masha apart from the other child wonders clawing their way towards wealth and fame at Bollettieri’s academy. It was that she had a tennis brain."
A tennis brain........ says it all.
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I just came back from lunch with a buddy I used to play doubles with.
He was a professional baseball player with the Angles organization who became a Chiropractor after he served his country in the military. He had some thoughts that I had to agree with.
He said that Sharpova for the most part does everything right, meaning she has real strokes that are hit the right way in addition to her physical ability.
She will probably be around and not rip apart as the Williams sisters have because her technique is good.
We both love the Williams sisters by the way, but we both watched them from the time they were 7 and both were expecting all these injuries and inabilities to stay on tour regularly early on.