TENNIS in DEPTH.

Alisa Kleybanova of Russia, #39 in the world defeated #5 Ana Ivanovic 7-5, 6-7, 6-2 in a match riddled with errors by both players….total errors were just shy of a combined total of 100!

It was one of the worst displays of women’s tennis I have seen in years, and it was hard to believe that one of the players is in the top ten. It would seem to me that if you are a professional tennis player, and someone who has played for many years to reach the pinnacle of their chosen sport, that tossing the ball in the air for a service would be second nature, yet Ivanovic can only do this simple task about one in ten times. One part of her game which she does excell at is fist pumping, she pumps her fist continually, partly to keep her focus I’m sure, but it borders on bad sportsmanship when she pumps her fist after the opposing player double faults or makes a bad shot into the net not as a result of anything she can take credit for. Unless Ivanovic hires a new coach, a person who will give her career some direction, she will slide out of the top ten and into obscurity.

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