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2008-03-22 02:35:00
All of you who are following women’s tennis closely have probably reacted at how low the level of the tennis has been recently. I have watched a lot of the matches in Indian Wells and earlier during the season and I am shocked at the low level of the tennis the top stars in the game are producing at the moment. Sure, the depth of women’s tennis has undergone a radical improvement since the 90’s and even more since the 80’s.
A player ranked 100 in the world today can actually win more than one game against a top 15 player. Justine Henin was superb in her dominance of the game last year, but did anyone really challenge her with a high level of tennis? In some tournaments, yes. But there was also the feeling that Henin could be playing at a rather low level but still come out as the winner at the end of the week. The Williams sisters have continued to have their tennis as a half time job the past few years, and it is extremely apparent that they are rather chasing the money than the titles. Just look at Venus schedule the past few weeks, playing Doha – Memphis – Bangalore in three consecutive weeks. Anyone with any sense of planning and determination to do well, instead of picking up big appearance fees, wouldn’t engage on that trip of insanity.
Another one of the Challengers behind Henin, Jelena Jankovic, is another case of questionable planning. She is constantly having injuries, but just continues to play week after week. At the start of this season, she was injured at the Hopman Cup and had to pull out of the singles matches in two consecutive ties. Despite this, she still showed up at the Medibank International two days later and played the tournament injured – the week before Australian Open! I don’t know who to blame, but Jelena’s manager and agent definitely need to take care of their player in a better way.
The last time the level was as low as now was probably in 2004, the year when anyone could win a Grand Slam tournament with the Williams sisters on their usual vacation at the same time as Justine Henin and Kim Clijsters missed most of the season with injuries. Anastasia Myskina, who didn’t know what topspin was and probably still doesn’t, won at Roland Garros. 17-year old Maria Sharapova won Wimbledon with a game that showed a lot of promise but lacked many ingredients. Svetlana Kuznetsova completed the Russian hat-trick by winning the US Open.
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