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Europeans are a-lot more into Tennis. You won't have marque American stars but the talent will restock as you mentioned
What's going on with American tennis?
Nearly all the Top 40 players and beyond are now European.
The days of Sampras, Agassi, Roddick etc now seem a distant memory.
Don't worry we have not had a top class male player down here since Lleyton Hewitt as well.
Surface homogenization is to blame, the days of talent are gone...
I feel like the ATP will enter the same phase the WTA was in from 2009-2011, the days of Safina, Wozniacki, Jankovic, Ivanovic :lol:, and possible again this year..
What I find funny is that these youngsters like Divatrova, Nishikori struggle so much with stamina..obviously the slow courts have to play, but again, these guys are only playing 3-setters at the MAX...but before 2007 even the masters were 5 sets...don't know what to think there
The Americans are still in their downward spiral...the USTA really does nothing.
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The women's side looks more promising...Belinda Bencic, Simona Halep, hopefully Cepelova, Pironkova, Svitolina, Vekic look to be STRONG contenders for slams in the future..Azarenka, Radwanska will still be challenging, maybe Sharapova
The hyped Robson, Bouchard, Stephens won't be doing anything in the future, imo...maybe Bouchard since she actually has a brain glued on her shoulders
In many ways this has been one of the problems with the Women's game, often only 1 or 2 dominating everything at any given time.
But once we move away from the domination, more 1 and 2 slam wonders will appear again, and that is not such a bad thing.
I honestly don't think there should be a big 4...Murray is still a punching bag :lol: should be the big 3
I don't think having 1 or 2 slam wonders is a problem, as long as there aren't too many of them..
The late 90's and early 2000's of the WTA (even up to 2007 to a certain extent) were the GLORY DAYS of the WTA...Hingis, Venus, Davenport, Capriati, Henin, Clijsters, Mauresmo, Graf, Seles, Dementieva giving us classic matches and great slams..there really wasn't one person dominating (except during the Serena Slam)...it was all the top players giving each other a run for their money...at first it looked like Hingis would be dominating, but then Davenport and the Williams sisters step it up, Venus starts dominating, but then Capriati and the Belgians come in the picture as new contenders, then Serena starts truly dominating, but Venus and Capriati are still challenging her...with the veterans and the Russians challenging
Surface homogenization is to blame, the days of talent are gone...
I feel like the ATP will enter the same phase the WTA was in from 2009-2011, the days of Safina, Wozniacki, Jankovic, Ivanovic :lol:, and possible again this year..
What I find funny is that these youngsters like Divatrova, Nishikori struggle so much with stamina..obviously the slow courts have to play, but again, these guys are only playing 3-setters at the MAX...but before 2007 even the masters were 5 sets...don't know what to think there
The Americans are still in their downward spiral...the USTA really does nothing.
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The women's side looks more promising...Belinda Bencic, Simona Halep, hopefully Cepelova, Pironkova, Svitolina, Vekic look to be STRONG contenders for slams in the future..Azarenka, Radwanska will still be challenging, maybe Sharapova
The hyped Robson, Bouchard, Stephens won't be doing anything in the future, imo...maybe Bouchard since she actually has a brain glued on her shoulders
Mention anything about slowing down of surfaces or slower and larger tennis balls on the ATP site and they'll often delete the comment (but allow anyone to make unfounded doping claims against any player).
An interesting article recently:
I saw on another article the difference between Wimbledon 2003 (Federers 1st title) and Wimbledon 2008 (the epic contest he lost to Nadal), the difference was amazing - the ball bounced slower and higher, giving Nadal a much better chance than 5 years earlier (even if he wasn't on the tour in 2003).
Mention anything about slowing down of surfaces or slower and larger tennis balls on the ATP site and they'll often delete the comment (but allow anyone to make unfounded doping claims against any player).
An interesting article recently:
I saw on another article the difference between Wimbledon 2003 (Federers 1st title) and Wimbledon 2008 (the epic contest he lost to Nadal), the difference was amazing - the ball bounced slower and higher, giving Nadal a much better chance than 5 years earlier (even if he wasn't on the tour in 2003).
Uncle Mafiosi really has done well for Kneedull
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