I don't know that I agree with you about her game not being the kind of game that gets a lot of wins. Right now tennis is a power game and a player with her game can drive a power player nuts. I see it a lot in baseball- guys who just murder high speed pitches tie themselves in knots when a pitcher throws off speed or knuckleballs. I think a junkball player can win a lot matches if she (or he) has better weapons than Tan possesses. I'd like to see someone try, I'm sick of the power game.
never heard it called that before, but it's perfect, and describes my game exactly -junkball. i figgered out quick, especially in high school, that spinning balls mess people up. seriously, at that level, it can make an opponent throw their racket. i spin/spun everything, and would practice that almost exclusively. id regularly spend an hour or two just messing with the ball, slicing, dicing, chopping, and hacking it, and really worked on the spinning serve. it's great and pretty easy on the system since you don't have to spend hours in a match always trying to hit it harder. on the udder hand, and when getting a ball closer to the net that i could get an overhead whack at, i almost always wound up, and rocket fired it directly at the feet of the opponent. sometimes my aim was a bit off, and it headed a bit higher. either way, it usually worked.
come to think of it, i saw a lot of dropped/thrown rackets back then. the soft spinner just barely over made more than a few bumble and stumble into the net.
pretty funny for high school daze. as a mostly righthander, every so often id hit the left handed spinner, especially at crunch time.
unfair. sweet.
as a pitcher, greg maddux is an alltime favorite. the things that he could do with a ball, and seemingly in slow motion, were epic.
