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> : Legend of the US Open this match was. I watched it yesterday and was
floored
> : at how fast Monica was ! She is now a ghost of what she was. Geez. She
was
> : flying all over the court. And her power and accuracy was brutal. I truly
> : think if she was the player of 1991 now, Hingis would never win a set, and
Graf
> : would have stayed #2. Monica still could do it all, but she must get in
> : perfect shape and mentally decide to thrash all opponents all year long.
> : Jennifer is so sad to see her gone. She was so good, and the only one who
> : could get in Monica's head during a match. Oh well.
> I know, I watched that match when they showed it on TV at like 7am here in oz,
> and have been trying to find a copy of it ever since...Despite her horrendous
> hairstyle, Monica was incredible...She bashed everything to the lines and
could
> pick any shot up.
> I red a comment on that match in that book "Ladies Of the Court" which says
> that match was played by "axe ***ers", referring to the way they were
> hitting the ball. I believe the writer made a comment after Capriati had been
> asked would she have done anything differently to win the match, and she said
> "Yeah, I'd try to be more agressive..." -"How? Rip out the net post and brain
> Monica over the head with it?"
> Well I thought it was funny...amazing match...6-3 3-6 7-6 (7-3) as i recall?
It is a fantastic match to watch, but it's been greatly over-rated as far
as the quality of tennis that was played. These two players played, and
still play, very similarly, and have a knack to feed off each others'
strengths. If you take away the intensity with which each player played,
as well as the crowd involvement, which I thought was phenomenal BTW, you
have a rather boring, one-dimensional slugfest similar to what we tend to
see so much off nowadays.
Hingis is of a different mold. She is comfortable doing almost anything
on the court and can quickly make you do what you're not very comfortable
doing. And we have seen how easily she can dismantle one-dimensional
players...
John
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