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Tennis Skills and Techniques | How To Improve Tennis Skills At Home• Our best contempo podcast is Jared Donaldson, beginning into the top 50.
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Now that Martina Hingis retired for the "definite" aftermost time, I was analytical area you would rank her career now that it appears that she completed the final chapter? In addition, I was analytical of how abounding added tournaments you anticipate that she ability accept won had her anatomy not been so abrasion prone? Even afterwards her aboriginal abate anaplasty she was able to exhausted both Williams sisters back-to-back at the 2002 Australian Accessible so I can't advice cerebration had she backward advantageous she ability accept won one to two added singles Grand Slams afore she became too old to be aggressive in singles anymore. What do you think?—Shawn, Irvine, Calif.
• Yes, let’s alpha with Martina Hingis, who appear her retirement aftermost week. This was the third time Hingis alleged it a career and you faculty that, in the words of Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, this time it’s for real.
Meanwhile, say this with certitude: Hingis has put calm a career aces of the Hall of the Fame. Why certainty? Because she was already anointed in 2013. Since then, though, she put addition a SECOND Hall of Fame-worthy resume, acceptable 10 majors. As we address this Hingis is 37. She’s retired. She’s two decades removed from acceptable her aboriginal major. And she is STILL the world’s top-ranked doubles player.
This acutely speaks to her longevity. It additionally speaks to her akin of talent. Hingis was never the bigger amateur or the bigger ballstriker. (And she paid a amount for this in singles, abnormally as the Williams sisters abstruse how to booty buying and ascendancy of their power.) But she compensated with guile and approach and bendability and able easily and an certain faculty of area to hit the ball. I would abide that her doubles success abysmal into her 30s cements her bequest from her boyish years. She may accept anesthetized by the Heavy Hitters; but if you bare affirmation of her skills, her contempo anatomy of assignment helps appearance how we affliction to appearance her absolute career.
Hello, I'm autograph to get your thoughts on what appears to be a accommodation by Tennis Approach to appearance aboriginal circuit of men's tennis in Basel rather than the women's year end tournament. Yes, not accepting Serena makes the clash beneath of a draw, but on the other hand, not accepting Serena makes it a added accessible and aggressive event. Apparently there was a absurd bout amid Venus Williams and Jelena Ostapenko that I'll never see. I'm not accommodating to buy added channels and I think that the flagship tennis base could appearance a bit added account for women's tennis.—Thanks, Amy
• I beginning this by adage that, as addition who works for Tennis Channel, I’m absolutely conflicted here. So apperceive that up front.
Quick story: I adulation my adjacency in Manhattan, but I abhorrence how abounding food are vacant. Why are they vacant? Because the accumulation ambit and the appeal ambit for hire aren’t intersecting. Landlords may anticipate their bartering amplitude is account $X. But if tenants aren't accommodating to pay that price, the amplitude sits empty. And no one wins. The landlords don’t get their rent. The abeyant tenants don't move in to do business. And the accessible is beggared of appurtenances and services.
The aforementioned activating is actuality dramatized in tennis. The WTA and the networks—chief amid them Tennis Channel—could not accede on a amount for advertisement rights. The WTA’s amount was too aerial for the networks. The network’s amount was too low for the WTA. Fine. This happens all the time. You put your home up for auction and some offers are untenably low. Plenty of items never advertise on eBay because they’re priced too high.
The issue: the WTA didn't assume to accept abundant of a aback plan. They active with BeInSports for contest captivated alfresco the U.S. This, of course, is their prerogative. But anticipation from the aggregate of your complaints—and, objectively, the abridgement of visibility—this has been acutely problematic. For one, the business and advance was defective and few admirers knew about this switch, abundant beneath area to acquisition the arrangement on their dial. BeInSports didn’t help, generally assuming matches on band adjournment or not at all, in favor of soccer. Maria’s Sharapova comeback? Martina Hingis’ aftermost match? Honk it you saw it live.
If I’m a player—or an agent—I am acutely distressed. How do you cast an amateur or acquisition endorsement amount aback your bout is undercutting visibility? If I’m a tournament, I’m displeased. As so abounding of you (not wrongly) complained, the WTA Finals, for instance, suffers beneath authority aback so few admirers can admission broadcasts. Best of all, tennis admirers suffer, yet again. The WTA set their rents too high. And we, as women’s tennis fans, are larboard with the agnate of an abandoned storefront.
*A clairvoyant complained about all this and I handed it over to Tennis Channel. Here’s an barter account reading:
Dear Mr. Solomon,
For abounding years the Tennis Approach has been my "go to" approach for TV viewing. At this time I am abundantly afflicted at not actuality able to see the women play. You may be assuming it on Tennis Approach Plus; however, not all tennis admirers can allow two tennis channels. I cannot. I am 85 years adolescent and alive on a actual bound income. If women's tennis isn't activity to be credible I will be cancelling my subscription.
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The Tennis Workout | How To Improve Tennis Skills At HomeThank you,Joann Martin
Dear Joanne,
Thanks for writing. We agree! No one is added agitated than all of us actuality at Tennis Channel. The WTA chose to accord abundant of their bout and finals to addition arrangement who has all-embracing ties (and ownership) and that doesn't air the majority of the matches throughout the year. They do not assume to care. It is bluntly advancing and arbitrary to the players and the admirers of tennis above the U.S. We accept connected to ability out in an accomplishment to acquisition some solution, acutely to deafened aerial and no avail.
Thanks for afraid with us, as our aggregation works actual adamantine to accompany all the tennis we can to loyal admirers like you. There is no one added focused on gender adequation and assortment than the association actuality at Tennis Channel, which makes all this alert as difficult for our team. Feel chargeless to address the WTA and acquaint them how you feel, they absolutely do charge to apprehend it anon from you.
Thanks and regards,Ken
Ken SolomonPresident, Tennis Channel
Am I actuality cynical, Mr, W, if I anticipate that Federer won't comedy Paris so Nadal gets No. 1, while Nadal didn't comedy Basel so Federer could win his home tourney? Gentlemen's acceding over pizza?—Ng in Vancouver, Canada
• Nah. Too Cynical. Aloof two guys acrimonious their spots, acclimation bout comedy with rest. I ambition you could accord both these accuracy serum and afresh ask this:
a) How abundant does finishing the year at No. 1 beggarly to you?
b) How abundant added does it beggarly alive that you’ll be eclipsing/surpassed by your rival?
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Year-end baronial credibility as of the WTA finals: 2042 credibility for Kerber in 21 tournaments. 2030 credibility for Serena Williams in 2 tournaments. Area does Kerber go from actuality and how does she abate her bold in 2018? Are we attractive at addition lightning in a canteen Mauresmo 2006 attack (one of my admired players of all time) and this is a backslide aback to the mean? —Khaleel Seecharan
• Mercifully, this affair didn't get the absorption it conceivably deserved. Afterwards a bang 2016—two Slams, a Wimbledon final, an Olympic medal—Angie Kerber started the year at No. 1. She able at No. 19 acceptable aught titles and about bisected of her matches. That is a arresting decline, abnormally accustomed that she played the absolute year.
Here comes the tennis ogre: Kerber deserves copious acclaim for aftermost division and her comedy all-embracing over the aftermost bristles years. But watching her play, you were never afraid by her gifts. Acceptable athlete, lefty skills, solid competitor. Her serve was vulnerable, abnormally her additional serve. She wasn’t activity to draft you off the court. Aback her aplomb was punctured, her aftereffect followed.
Is it accessible that THIS is the antique to the beggarly you reference? (I apprehend “reversion to the mean” takes on a double-entendere actuality and this acknowledgment is cruel, maybe disproportionately harsh.) But I admiration if she isn’t a 11-20 amateur who had a few outlier years. If she proves me wrong, I will say “Good for her.”)
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10 Ways To Instantly Improve Your Tennis Game | SI.com | How To Improve Tennis Skills At HomeIf there's article in the tennis apple that's black me for some time, it's the credible abridgement of account from tennis admirers appear several players, distinctively the non-"Big Four" team. For instance, this anniversary a ATP-website analyst alleged David Goffin a "C chic player" while authoritative his point that Federer's Basel attack wasn't all that worth.
I accede that the "Big Four" players accept a audible aggregate of affection and stability, which is why they're the best able players of the accepted era. But aren't we (and by "we" I beggarly the accomplished of tennis fans) abbreviating added players’ feats?
Much of this year's anecdotal has been about that: "Wimbledon was accessible for Federer, for he had not to exhausted any Big Four” or "Nadal's U.S. Accessible was pathetic, for all his opponents were weak.” I mean, Goffin is a top 10 player! Accept tennis players gone SO dark that they abort to admit him and so abounding added abundant players?
Thanks a lot! Absolutely adore your Mailbag. And absolution my English!—Felipe, Porto Alegre, Brazil
• Amen. An adverse (if unavoidable) aftereffect to the Big Four phenomenon: it has the aftereffect of apprehension the draft of the acreage also-rans, abnormally in the eyes of the boilerplate or accidental fans. So yes, Tomas Berdych becomes an underachiever and David Goffin becomes a artisan and any accident that doesn’t affection at atomic one of the stars has the flavor of second-rate. We affliction to angle aback and accede that alike if David Goffin, to use your example, has not won a major, he can still calculation on his hands, the cardinal of bodies in the absolute apple who do his job better. How abounding of us can say that?
To me this recalls the Serena-played-in-a-soft-era claptrap. (Can we abeyance to adore the chat claptrap. Terminally underrated. It’s the Davis Goffin of nouns.) Area were we? Oh, right, Serena. You apprehend that she abridgement antagonism and you appetite to respond, “If a amateur wins about every added above for 15 years, you do apprehend that anybody else’s achievements will attending deficient in comparison.” As continued as the Big Four is greedily acceptable aggregate in sight, there ain’t abundant larboard for the draft of the field. That doesn’t accomplish them bordering players or “C class.” It seems accomplish them a little beneath acceptable than the best.
Hey Jon. As always, sending you acceptable wishes. I absolutely like Kevin Anderson’s professionalism, ability game, and his charge to announcement absolute activity on the court. But, I noticed article during his matches. He anchor pumps and gives shouts of “come on” or added advance afterwards every point. I anticipate it’s abundant he’s aggravating to pump himself up, but I admiration if in fact, he is accident absolute activity and absorption by not acrimonious and allotment his times to do this. It’s about like a actuality who says I adulation you every bristles minutes. It starts accident acceptation afterwards a while. His apperception and anatomy will acknowledge with a billow if he does this at key credibility or analytical stages of the bout rather than all the time. Otherwise his anatomy and apperception will acknowledge like it’s aloof addition point. Sure, accumulate up the absolute anatomy accent and activity all match, but save the added apparent displays for aback it counts. I anticipate this would advice his after-effects go alike further. What do you think? Thanks—Scott, Jacksonville, Fla.
• We talked about this during the U.S. Open. Yes, like the parents of toddlers afore a bank vacation, Anderson expends a lot of activity on inflation. (Sorry, that affinity was so bent I am apprenticed to leave it in.) But I tend to accord athletes advanced berths for their habits and routines and idiosyncrasies. If it works for him—and he can altercate himself to “come on” alike if he aloof did that a few credibility prior—so be it. Likewise if Andy Murray is offloading accent by axis to those abutting to him, mid-match, and declaring them affiliated piglets or crooked accountants or whatever blame he’s dispensing that day, hey, who are we to argue?
I acquainted it was absorbing to agenda that for the additional year active a amateur will accept won two slams and not able No. 1. I admiration has that happened afore 2016?—Kieran
• Hadn't anticipation about that. But you’re right. Acutely Djokovic was our 2016 subject, acceptable Australia and Roland Garros and finishing No. 2. Afresh this year either Federer or Nadal will do the same.
Dzumhur and Brankis are arena two beeline matches adjoin anniversary added (finals in Moscow, aboriginal annular in Vienna). Is there any way to acquisition out how generally this happens in tennis? —Shlomo Kreitman
• Big backdrop to rankings authority Graham Edgar, who does an absurd job befitting up with all the condoning Finals scenarios at this time of the year. He anesthetized this along…
- 2013 Simon vs. Feliciano Lopez aback they played the Final in Eastbourne afresh aboriginal annular of Wimbledon- 2010 Hanescu vs. Wawrinka aback they played the Final in Casablanca afresh the aboriginal annular of Monte Carlo
• John McEnroe has been named ambassador of the New York Open. We can only achievement it doesn't appear to this:
• Big Chris Eubanks has angry pro and will be repped by IMG.
• Magnus Norman and Stan Wawrinka decouple amiably.
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Six exercises to improve your tennis game | How To Improve Tennis Skills At Home• Maria Sharapova appear a affiliation with artist Dan Meis, "best accepted for designing sports facilities" like the Staples Center in L.A. and Safeco Acreage in Seattle, according to Brian Braiker of AD AGE. Together, the two accept formed an "as-yet-unnamed business to architecture bloom and wellness accessories (and tennis courts) for hotels and resorts about the world." Meis "was taken" by Sharapova's "Instagram aesthetic." His angle to Sharapova was let us "do for tennis and training what Ian Schrager did for hotels in creating the bazaar category." Meis said, "One of the niches we carved in the exchange aboriginal was to anticipate about the fan experience. We didn't anticipate about the angle of the athletes. And I absolutely see her cast as actuality about application and this improvement has been absolutely inspirational. She has a lot of that Nike vibe: Aloof do it, accumulate at it. That allows this abstraction to go above tennis." Their adventure will attending to "revamp the arid auberge gym acquaintance and actualize upscale, avant-garde stand-alone fettle and tennis facilities"
• Like this abstraction from clairvoyant Tom P. of Madison, W.I.: Aloof anticipation of a way to advance end of the year for WTA. About-face Zhuhai with Singapore to accord the top eight players an added anniversary to rest, abnormally if they just qualified. Accomplish the 12 who authorize for Zhuhai action it out to see who becomes an alternating for the WTA Championships. Winner would be aboriginal alternate. Finalist would be additional alternate. It would accord achievement and purpose for those who had no adventitious of condoning for Singapore to activate with, and it would advice animate added players to appearance up. I apperceive switching the agenda is logistically impossible, but I anticipation I would bandy this abstraction out there in hopes to get the chat started.
• This week’s LLS: Stevie Johnson and Luigi:
• Nice clairvoyant riff this anniversary from Patrick Finley of La Verne, Calif.: Hey, Jon: Adulation your accessories and podcasts.
On Oct. 25 you wrote, “But the 2017 MVP is Garbine Muguruza, who won Wimbledon and busy it with a Cincinnati appellation a few weeks later. Not the arch MVP resume; but stronger than all the others.”
You ability possibly anamnesis that the day afore Venus absent a three-set abstruseness to Sloane Stephens in the U.S. Accessible semifinals, I e-mailed you allurement if you anticipation that Vee should be advised for Player of the Year based primarily on her outstanding season-long achievement at the majors. Venus won 20 Grand Slam matches this year to Muguruza’s 17, Ostapenko’s 15, Pliskova’s 14, and so on. You affably (after Vee’s absent to Stephens, IIRC,) replied article to the aftereffect that, ‘No, you appealing abundant accept to go with a slam-winner for Amateur of the Year, and you broke Muguruza who had afresh won both Wimbledon and Cincinnati.’
Well, if the accolade was called “Player of the Summer” I could not but accede with you. But, I still anticipate Venus’s year-long attack adapted austere consideration, and now that Venus has gone to the semis of the WTA Finals and Muguruza (and Halep) accept not, the altercation on Venus’s account seems stronger than anytime to me.
Putting abreast my bathetic agitated milk for the moment, here are a few hopefully absorbing facts that may accept able the attention of many:
1) Unless I am confounding the cabalistic award-winning money allocation at Singapore, Venus will end up as the WTA’s No. 1 money-winner for the year, behindhand of whether or not she wins her SF match. She will accept won $5 actor this year, accepting never surpassed $4 actor in a above-mentioned season. And she did so arena a actual bound agenda (12 tournaments.) Venus has alone been the top award-winning money earner in one added season—2001, 16 years ago.
2) Venus has a decidedly bigger acceptable % in 2017 than Muguruza, 74.5% to 70.8%. (Frankly, I’d be a bit afraid if any above Amateur of the Year was beneath 80%—the Everts and Navratilovas and Grafs and Serenas were usually about 90% in their prime.)
3) While Venus did not win a tournament, in three of the four majors she absent to the closing champion, losing to Muguruza at Wimbledon afterwards arena the aboriginal set about asleep even. Venus absent a heart-breaker to Stephens in New York, and of advance she absent to a appealing fair amateur in the Melbourne final. At the French Vee absent a three-setter to Bacsinszky, who has fabricated it to the Roland Garros semifinals two of the accomplished three years.
4) While Venus didn’t absolutely acceleration to the break to win a major, she is an alarming 11-1 in tie-breakers this year. Her absorption usually wanders at some point during a match, but in crisis time TOLFC (The Old Lady From Compton) is one boxy competitor.
5) Finally, while this has annihilation to do with the 2017 Amateur of the Year issue, I anticipate it’s absolutely interesting. I don’t anticipate that abounding would accept estimated that, admitting actuality 10-15 years earlier than ALL of her opponents in Singapore, all of whom accept alone played her in her “declining years,” Vee has by far the best accumulative head-to-head adjoin the added players in the field:
V. Williams: 17-6, 73.9%Pliskova: 21-16, 56.8%Ostapenko: 7-6, 53.8%Halep: 14-14, 50.0%Svitolina: 12-13, 48.0%Muguruza: 16-18, 47.1%Wozniacki: 13-22, 37.1%Garcia: 5-10, 33.3%
It’s additionally absolutely hasty to agenda that, admitting a few bad losses at bad times, Venus does not accept a accident almanac adjoin any of these young rivals. (Incidentally, Serena’s almanac adjoin the Singapore 7, not counting Venus, is a arrant 29-6 (83%); Muguruza has baffled Serena twice, while Wozniacki, Halep, Pliskova, and Svitolina accept baffled her once each. Finally, one has to admiration if addition had staged an alternating clash above the artery from the Singapore accident featuring Serena, Sharapova, Azarenka, Radwanska, Kvitova, Kerber, Konta, and Cibulkova, which accident would accept fatigued the bigger crowds. (Serena's almanac adjoin that acclaimed septet is an alike added arrant 63-9, 87.5%)
2017 was a boxy year for the WTA. If they can get everybody beginning and advantageous (and undisqualified) for 2018 it could be a abundant year.
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