“Serve-and-volley tennis is not something that’s easy to do as you get older,” Sampras said. “It’s actually much more difficult. To play that explosive tennis is tough on the body … Even when I played on the real tour, it’s a tough way to play tennis.”
https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/sports/tn-dpt-0710-spsampras-20110709-story.html
PeteWasLucky <waleed.khedr@gmail.com> writes:> “Serve-and-volley tennis is not something that’s easy to do as you get> older,” Sampras said. “It’s actually much more difficult. To play that> explosive tennis is tough on the body … Even whenI played on the real> tour, it’s a tough way to play tennis.”>> https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/sports/tn-dpt-0710-spsampras-20110709-story.html*Everything* becomes more difficult as you get older. Note hedidn't compare it to hanging back.
*skriptis <skriptis@post.t-com.hr> writes:>>> But he says "much more difficult". Not just more difficult?He says serve and volley is much more difficult as you age. Thestatement doesn't compare it to any other style of play.
But he says "much more difficult". Not just more difficult?
PeteWasLucky <waleed.khedr@gmail.com> writes:> “Serve-and-volley tennis is not something that’s easy to do as you get> older,” Sampras said. “It’s actually much more difficult. To play that> explosive tennis is tough on the body … Even when I played onthe real> tour, it’s a tough way to play tennis.”>> https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/sports/tn-dpt-0710-spsampras-20110709-story.html*Everything* becomes more difficult as you get older. Note hedidn't compare it to hanging back.
Note hedidn't compare it to hanging back.You need help understanding this:"Even when I played on the real tour, it’s a tough way to play tennis."
jdeluise <jdeluise@gmail.com> Wrote in message:r> *skriptis <skriptis@post.t-com.hr> writes:>>> But he says "much more difficult". Not just more difficult?He says serve and volley is much more difficult as you age. Thestatement doesn't compare it toany other style of play."Much more difficult as you age" implies comparisons with other styles and you can sense he means it's more difficult in relation to those styles, in relative sense.Otherwise it would have been simply "more difficult as you age".
You need help understanding this:
"Even when I played on the real tour, it’s a tough way to play
tennis."
PeteWasLucky <waleed.khedr@gmail.com> writes:>> You need help understanding this:>> "Even when I played on the real tour, it’s a tough way to play> tennis."I'm not arguing that it's not tough. But he didn't say what you claim(that it's harder on thebody to play S/V). We also don't know thecontext of the statement because the article doesn't provide it.As per usual, you ditched the thread where this was being discussedafter I brought up at least three technical reasons why S/V could beconsidered
PeteWasLucky <waleed.khedr@gmail.com> Wrote in message:
Note hedidn't compare it to hanging back.You need help understanding this:"Even when I played on the real tour, it’s a tough way to play tennis."
Yes, it's not the style for old legs or those who feel old.
Sampras was "praised" for retooling his game in latter part of his career as a way to extend it, but realistically he stopped winning outside of Wimbledon.
He never won in HC slams post AO 1997 and he was cca 26.5 at the time.
He still won 4 Wim titles in next years so we can't say it was a failure, but it's not overwhelming success either.
It seems to me that he finally realised what to do in his last slam, in 2002 we he was hitting big from the baseline and then he won HC slam after more than 5 years.
On 9/21/2023 12:52 PM, *skriptis wrote:> PeteWasLucky <waleed.khedr@gmail.com> Wrote in message:>> Note hedidn't compare it to hanging back.You need help understanding this:"Even when I played on the real tour, it’s a tough way to play tennis."> > >Yes, it's not the style for old legs or those who feel old.> > Sampras was "praised" for retooling his game in latter part of his career as a way to extend it, but realistically he stopped winning outside of Wimbledon.> > He never won in HC slams post AO
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