Pretty butch... but the manliest female tennis player on the tour is the well-built but lantern-jawed Mary Pierce. Oy! She looks like Geddy Lee in a tennis skirt.
Good game, though.
Maria Sharpova is talented, attractive, and undoubtedly the phenom of the era, but she's till not the best all-around women's player. That'd be Linsay Davenport.
Not any more. Lindsay, over the past five years or so, has become quite the thinking player to go along with her height and shot making. But she was never too quick on the court. (By the way, you know her family has a great tradition playing badminton.)
But her back is beginning to be a problem more often than not. I've always liked her because she's a good girl too.
But, she's a little past her prime because of her health.
Sharapova is just getting smarter and better with each month that goes by. She can only get better in the future, and she wants to.
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Her game is built largely around her groundstrokes, which are considered to be among the most powerful and cleanly struck in the history of women's tennis. Lack of court speed is perhaps her greatest weakness, mainly because of her size. At slightly over 6 ft 2 in (1.89 m), she is the tallest woman ever to win a Grand Slam singles title. However, she has worked to overcome this by losing weight, overhauling her conditioning program, and becoming mentally stronger. She is an advocate for the mental game, as evidenced by her comments on the cover of "Smart Tennis: How to Play and Win the Mental Game."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsay_Davenport