Only saw the 3rd set but Jacob Fearnley has a great mentality and continues to impress me with a strong forehand and a decent consistent serve. At 23 years old and coming out of the competitive American college system in Texas he can go much higher than 77 which is his highest ranking so far.
Draper is a leftie who is right handed. It would be interesting if he had a coach who have him change hands depending on which side of the court the ball goes.
Might be a game changer and undefendable.
If only he wasn't pretty damn good already!
Same with Nadal re playing left handed but being right handed otherwise. Although I recall reading it was a conscious decision (by his uncle?) to get him to play left handed. I read the other day Jack Draper picked up a tennis racquet with his left hand from the beginning
Dennis Compton was a right handed batsman who bowled left arm wrist spinners. Just saying.
Draper is a leftie who is right handed. It would be interesting if he had a coach who have him change hands depending on which side of the court the ball goes.
Might be a game changer and undefendable.
If only he wasn't pretty damn good already!
Same with Nadal re playing left handed but being right handed otherwise. Although I recall reading it was a conscious decision (by his uncle?) to get him to play left handed. I read the other day Jack Draper picked up a tennis racquet with his left hand from the beginning
Dennis Compton was a right handed batsman who bowled left arm wrist spinners. Just saying.
a lot of cricketers bowl and bat with different hands - Ben Stokes for one, but not sure of he is 'traditionally right or left handed for writing etc. I'll leave it to the cricket experts on here to explain why it is not unusual and often to do with what the top and bottom hands do when batting.
There's a Sri Lankan who can even bowl both right-arm off-spin and left-arm orthodox spin.
Can happen in golf too - Brian Close, took up golf as a right hander. As he batted left handed he reckoned this way his golfing would not hinder his cricket.
After Close retired from cricket he also played golf left handed. He maintained separate handicaps as a right hander and a left hander.
Raducanu v Navarro later today, maybe around 5-6pm start (second on court with the first match due at 4pm).
Fearnley v Zverev and Draper v Mensik on Saturday.
BBC Sports has the schedule showing the Emmas as estimated start 16.30 - obviously it is only an estimate but worth checking a bit earlier than 5 nearer the time.
Unfortunately I won't be able to watch it as will be travelling to Oxford to watch Sue, Matt and Phil - not allowed to call it 'Question of Sport'
Raducanu v Navarro later today, maybe around 5-6pm start (second on court with the first match due at 4pm).
Fearnley v Zverev and Draper v Mensik on Saturday.
BBC Sports has the schedule showing the Emmas as estimated start 16.30 - obviously it is only an estimate but worth checking a bit earlier than 5 nearer the time.
Unfortunately I won't be able to watch it as will be travelling to Oxford to watch Sue, Matt and Phil - not allowed to call it 'Question of Sport'
Got my time conversions messed up, yes it’ll be a 4 to 5pm start, not 5 to 6pm.
Draper is a leftie who is right handed. It would be interesting if he had a coach who have him change hands depending on which side of the court the ball goes.
Might be a game changer and undefendable.
If only he wasn't pretty damn good already!
Same with Nadal re playing left handed but being right handed otherwise. Although I recall reading it was a conscious decision (by his uncle?) to get him to play left handed. I read the other day Jack Draper picked up a tennis racquet with his left hand from the beginning
Dennis Compton was a right handed batsman who bowled left arm wrist spinners. Just saying.
a lot of cricketers bowl and bat with different hands - Ben Stokes for one, but not sure of he is 'traditionally right or left handed for writing etc. I'll leave it to the cricket experts on here to explain why it is not unusual and often to do with what the top and bottom hands do when batting.
There's a Sri Lankan who can even bowl both right-arm off-spin and left-arm orthodox spin.
Can happen in golf too - Brian Close, took up golf as a right hander. As he batted left handed he reckoned this way his golfing would not hinder his cricket.
After Close retired from cricket he also played golf left handed. He maintained separate handicaps as a right hander and a left hander.
The reason that a lot of the very best batsmen batted left handed and bowled/threw right handed (Lara, Gower, Cook, Ganguly, Smith, Langer, Stokes, Hayden, Warner etc) and vice versa (Clarke and Finch) is because that is the way they were taught - batting always used to be perceived as needing to be top hand dominant in order to stop the bottom hand forcing the issue and to have more control over the shot. Tendulkar who batted and bowled right handed but, off the field, did everything, such as writing, with his left hand. There are instances of some that bowl and throw (Williamson) with different arms and some that have the ability to bowl with both arms such as Kamindu Mendis. With the advent of T20 cricket top hand dominance certainly isn't considered so much a necessity over here but one imagines that in the likes of India this still is very much the case in some instances as technique and timing is very much considered the underpin of batting with attacking shots layered on top of that.
There are a couple of other complications with cricket and that is whether you are right or left eye dominant. As a right handed batter, if you are right eye dominant then that eye isn't going to be in line with the ball which is why you do see players with a somewhat unusual and strained looking head position when facing the ball. Equally, some are right handed but left footed which, in the case of wicket keepers, can be a benefit when taking balls down the legside (standing up or back) because the left foot will be the one they spring off.
My son had never played golf before he had a lesson when he was 11 to see if he liked it. The very next cricket session the coach asked me "what's happened to his back lift"? I explained about the golf lesson and he, too, suggested that he played left handed. That was too much for my son to cope with given he was also playing tennis "right handed" at the time too (at the same centre as Emma Radacanu) and he never hit a golf ball in anger again until some 20 months ago at the age of 20 as a result. Playing right handed and at every opportunity too!
The left handed batter and tennis player do have one thing in common and that is that there are far less of them. Which does give them a bit of an advantage over their opponents in the sense that their opponents don't get to face so many of them. Whereas there are even less left handed golfers one suspects because it is a hell of a lot harder to source clubs. Left handed cricket bats and tennis rackets, on the other hand, are ten to a penny!
Draper is a leftie who is right handed. It would be interesting if he had a coach who have him change hands depending on which side of the court the ball goes.
Might be a game changer and undefendable.
If only he wasn't pretty damn good already!
Same with Nadal re playing left handed but being right handed otherwise. Although I recall reading it was a conscious decision (by his uncle?) to get him to play left handed. I read the other day Jack Draper picked up a tennis racquet with his left hand from the beginning
Dennis Compton was a right handed batsman who bowled left arm wrist spinners. Just saying.
Draper is a leftie who is right handed. It would be interesting if he had a coach who have him change hands depending on which side of the court the ball goes.
Might be a game changer and undefendable.
If only he wasn't pretty damn good already!
Same with Nadal re playing left handed but being right handed otherwise. Although I recall reading it was a conscious decision (by his uncle?) to get him to play left handed. I read the other day Jack Draper picked up a tennis racquet with his left hand from the beginning
Dennis Compton was a right handed batsman who bowled left arm wrist spinners. Just saying.
a lot of cricketers bowl and bat with different hands - Ben Stokes for one, but not sure of he is 'traditionally right or left handed for writing etc. I'll leave it to the cricket experts on here to explain why it is not unusual and often to do with what the top and bottom hands do when batting.
There's a Sri Lankan who can even bowl both right-arm off-spin and left-arm orthodox spin.
Can happen in golf too - Brian Close, took up golf as a right hander. As he batted left handed he reckoned this way his golfing would not hinder his cricket.
After Close retired from cricket he also played golf left handed. He maintained separate handicaps as a right hander and a left hander.
The reason that a lot of the very best batsmen batted left handed and bowled/threw right handed (Lara, Gower, Cook, Ganguly, Smith, Langer, Stokes, Hayden, Warner etc) and vice versa (Clarke and Finch) is because that is the way they were taught - batting always used to be perceived as needing to be top hand dominant in order to stop the bottom hand forcing the issue and to have more control over the shot. Tendulkar who batted and bowled right handed but, off the field, did everything, such as writing, with his left hand. There are instances of some that bowl and throw (Williamson) with different arms and some that have the ability to bowl with both arms such as Kamindu Mendis. With the advent of T20 cricket top hand dominance certainly isn't considered so much a necessity over here but one imagines that in the likes of India this still is very much the case in some instances as technique and timing is very much considered the underpin of batting with attacking shots layered on top of that.
There are a couple of other complications with cricket and that is whether you are right or left eye dominant. As a right handed batter, if you are right eye dominant then that eye isn't going to be in line with the ball which is why you do see players with a somewhat unusual and strained looking head position when facing the ball. Equally, some are right handed but left footed which, in the case of wicket keepers, can be a benefit when taking balls down the legside (standing up or back) because the left foot will be the one they spring off.
My son had never played golf before he had a lesson when he was 11 to see if he liked it. The very next cricket session the coach asked me "what's happened to his back lift"? I explained about the golf lesson and he, too, suggested that he played left handed. That was too much for my son to cope with given he was also playing tennis "right handed" at the time too (at the same centre as Emma Radacanu) and he never hit a golf ball in anger again until some 20 months ago at the age of 20 as a result. Playing right handed and at every opportunity too!
The left handed batter and tennis player do have one thing in common and that is that there are far less of them. Which does give them a bit of an advantage over their opponents in the sense that their opponents don't get to face so many of them. Whereas there are even less left handed golfers one suspects because it is a hell of a lot harder to source clubs. Left handed cricket bats and tennis rackets, on the other hand, are ten to a penny!
I was thinking of you, when I said I'd leave it to a cricket expert to explain in more details
I have read how playing golf can help with cricket batting. It seems England may have taken that belief a little too far - and spend too much time playing golf and not enough in the nets!
Draper is a leftie who is right handed. It would be interesting if he had a coach who have him change hands depending on which side of the court the ball goes.
Might be a game changer and undefendable.
If only he wasn't pretty damn good already!
Same with Nadal re playing left handed but being right handed otherwise. Although I recall reading it was a conscious decision (by his uncle?) to get him to play left handed. I read the other day Jack Draper picked up a tennis racquet with his left hand from the beginning
Dennis Compton was a right handed batsman who bowled left arm wrist spinners. Just saying.
Chris Old another left/right combination.
Yes, it is not that unusual and includes Graham Dilley
Draper is a leftie who is right handed. It would be interesting if he had a coach who have him change hands depending on which side of the court the ball goes.
Might be a game changer and undefendable.
If only he wasn't pretty damn good already!
Same with Nadal re playing left handed but being right handed otherwise. Although I recall reading it was a conscious decision (by his uncle?) to get him to play left handed. I read the other day Jack Draper picked up a tennis racquet with his left hand from the beginning
Dennis Compton was a right handed batsman who bowled left arm wrist spinners. Just saying.
a lot of cricketers bowl and bat with different hands - Ben Stokes for one, but not sure of he is 'traditionally right or left handed for writing etc. I'll leave it to the cricket experts on here to explain why it is not unusual and often to do with what the top and bottom hands do when batting.
There's a Sri Lankan who can even bowl both right-arm off-spin and left-arm orthodox spin.
Can happen in golf too - Brian Close, took up golf as a right hander. As he batted left handed he reckoned this way his golfing would not hinder his cricket.
After Close retired from cricket he also played golf left handed. He maintained separate handicaps as a right hander and a left hander.
The reason that a lot of the very best batsmen batted left handed and bowled/threw right handed (Lara, Gower, Cook, Ganguly, Smith, Langer, Stokes, Hayden, Warner etc) and vice versa (Clarke and Finch) is because that is the way they were taught - batting always used to be perceived as needing to be top hand dominant in order to stop the bottom hand forcing the issue and to have more control over the shot. Tendulkar who batted and bowled right handed but, off the field, did everything, such as writing, with his left hand. There are instances of some that bowl and throw (Williamson) with different arms and some that have the ability to bowl with both arms such as Kamindu Mendis. With the advent of T20 cricket top hand dominance certainly isn't considered so much a necessity over here but one imagines that in the likes of India this still is very much the case in some instances as technique and timing is very much considered the underpin of batting with attacking shots layered on top of that.
There are a couple of other complications with cricket and that is whether you are right or left eye dominant. As a right handed batter, if you are right eye dominant then that eye isn't going to be in line with the ball which is why you do see players with a somewhat unusual and strained looking head position when facing the ball. Equally, some are right handed but left footed which, in the case of wicket keepers, can be a benefit when taking balls down the legside (standing up or back) because the left foot will be the one they spring off.
My son had never played golf before he had a lesson when he was 11 to see if he liked it. The very next cricket session the coach asked me "what's happened to his back lift"? I explained about the golf lesson and he, too, suggested that he played left handed. That was too much for my son to cope with given he was also playing tennis "right handed" at the time too (at the same centre as Emma Radacanu) and he never hit a golf ball in anger again until some 20 months ago at the age of 20 as a result. Playing right handed and at every opportunity too!
The left handed batter and tennis player do have one thing in common and that is that there are far less of them. Which does give them a bit of an advantage over their opponents in the sense that their opponents don't get to face so many of them. Whereas there are even less left handed golfers one suspects because it is a hell of a lot harder to source clubs. Left handed cricket bats and tennis rackets, on the other hand, are ten to a penny!
I was thinking of you, when I said I'd leave it to a cricket expert to explain in more details
I have read how playing golf can help with cricket batting. It seems England may have taken that belief a little too far - and spend too much time playing golf and not enough in the nets!
Golf in between games, football on the morning of games
Fabulous win for Raducanu- great recovery after poor second set.
I think, once she knew that the set was running away from her, she decided to conserve something for that final one. The treatment for her blisters probably helped too. Excellent win and hope she builds on that.
I recorded the 3rd set tie break and just watched it at HT of the football. Emma is a great competitor and beating a top 10 player will give her so much confidence.
I taped the 3rd set tie break and just watched it at HT the football. Emma is a great competitor and beating a top 10 player will give her so much confidence.
Mark Petchey is coaching Radacanu for this tournament and was talking to her during the time between the second and third sets during the period that she was receiving treatment for sore feet. He worked with her prior to her US Open win.
Am so pleased for her. Was watching the score online at the start of Sue, Matt and Phil at Oxford and thought I bet Sue checks the score during half time/the interval. I thought taking her to a tie break in the first set was good - me of little faith!
I taped the 3rd set tie break and just watched it at HT the football. Emma is a great competitor and beating a top 10 player will give her so much confidence.
The only Male player I can thing of that won a Slam early at 17 in the French (89) and never won another one was Michael Chang. TBF to him he did reach the slam finals '96' in Melbourne - Losing to boom boom Boris and also New York where Pistol Pete beat him. Chang wrote a book 'Holding serve' which was always his main issue with the power hitters and servers like Becker and Sampras.
When Chang won the Slam in France, Tiananmen square was happening and how he kept his focus was hard to imagine for the New Jersey born with the Chinese heritage.
If Emma Raducanu can emulate Chang she will have had a brilliant career and even if she never gets to another slam final she is a success.
Fabulous win for Raducanu- great recovery after poor second set.
I think, once she knew that the set was running away from her, she decided to conserve something for that final one. The treatment for her blisters probably helped too. Excellent win and hope she builds on that.
Were those real blisters or the equivalent of a goalkeeper going down for an injury to allow the manager an extra team talk?
Fabulous win for Raducanu- great recovery after poor second set.
I think, once she knew that the set was running away from her, she decided to conserve something for that final one. The treatment for her blisters probably helped too. Excellent win and hope she builds on that.
Were those real blisters or the equivalent of a goalkeeper going down for an injury to allow the manager an extra team talk?
They were described as "spots" by the commentators. The fact is that Radacanu totally gave up on the second set once she saw it getting away from her and/or was feeling her feet - she just wasn't chasing balls that weren't easily accessible. Commentators thought that the heat might be a contributing factor and the fact that, unlike her opponent, she wasn't used to. The break was a good ten minutes and it gave her a chance to re-assess and for Petchey to speak to her.
Navarro carried on, as she had done in the match, trying to keep the ball in play in order to wear Radacanu because that is what had worked previously but that allowed Radacanu to become the aggressor. Navarro's serve hadn't been great in the match anyway but, all of a sudden Navarro had no answer to the replies coming from Radacanu. Whether those four consecutives win games were "shit or bust" moments for Radacanu I don't know but she certainly played a different game at that point, albeit that she did miss two or three easy volleys to win vital points - those ones where a player has too much time to play it and isn't replying on instinct. A bit like an open goal that a 30 goal a season might miss.
If there is one aspect of Radacanu's game that she might improve it is her body language when things aren't going so well. Batters in age group cricket are encouraged not to show their disappointment when they've played a bad shot because that only gives encouragement to the bowler. If we watch someone like Steve Smith, he will say "great ball" when beaten but the inference in doing that is "that was a great ball but even your best one couldn't get me out". In the first set there was plenty of fist pumping when things were going Radacanu's way but when they weren't in that second set, she did look visibly defeated. That might have been as a result of her sore feet but the affect is still the same. Tennis is a game of very small margins at times and the last thing you want to do is to give your opponent encouragement. The very top players simply feed off that. I'm not suggesting that Radacanu can be as ice cool and Bjorg or Federer were (who were both serial racket throwers as teenagers but came to realise that doing that was counter-productive) or take it out on the officials as a McEnroe did but finding a way to channel that disappointment will, undoubtedly, stand Radacanu in good stead.
As I've said previously, for a Grand Slam winner, she hasn't had the sort of development pathway that many others have. That's not her fault in any shape or form. The talent is undoubtedly there and it isn't technical aspects that are holding her back. It is that experience of consistently playing long tournaments from a stamina perspective and in matches against the best in the world. When she won the US Open she played an incredible 10 matches to do so - but not one of those went beyond two sets. Since the US Open she has played 29 matches that have gone to three sets and won less than half of them whereas she has been successful in two thirds of her two set matches. It's a chicken and egg situation but the further she gets in tournaments and the more she plays, the better she will get. She's had a series of injuries that have constantly held back that development but, if she can stay injury free, find a coach such as Petchey (who she trusts and understands her but who, himself, has other commitments so is unlikely to be able to commit to her on a long term basis) then I'm sure she can go further.
Ultimately, what Radacanu wants to do is entirely in her hands. I'm not sure, though, that she's quite ready to retire and become a TV personality, commentator or concentrate on her business interests quite yet. She is set for life but show me a sports person that was happy that they retired too early and I'll show you a liar. Her elation at the end of the match was proof that she isn't quite ready yet to mothball her tennis rackets.
Getting blisters in the second set, and feeling the effects of the heat when it's not particularly hot by the standards tennis players are used to, does make you wonder about her fitness and conditioning. As you noted, her record in 3 set games isn't great.
She's been a full time pro now for 4 years, how long will it take to reach acceptable levels of fitness?
Getting blisters in the second set, and feeling the effects of the heat when it's not particularly hot by the standards tennis players are used to, does make you wonder about her fitness and conditioning. As you noted, her record in 3 set games isn't great.
She's been a full time pro now for 4 years, how long will it take to reach acceptable levels of fitness?
I think that's the lack of training at a top academy and the stop/start existence following the US Open as a result of her injuries. Radacanu hasn't played more than four matches at any tournament since as a result. It has been mentioned above that Raducanu isn't as "obsessed" with tennis as other players but if you want to get to the top then the game has to become a bit of an obsession. There's nothing wrong with not having that desire and playing for a good time rather than a long time but then you shouldn't be surprised if you aren't getting the results that you would otherwise like. By Radacanu's own admission she was somewhat undercooked prior to the US Open but it looks like she's trying to rectify that now.
Alcaraz dumped out early by Goffin last night. Perhaps unfortunately for the Brits, he’s in the other half of the draw so would’ve only been seen in a final anyway.
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At 23 years old and coming out of the competitive American college system in Texas he can go much higher than 77 which is his highest ranking so far.
There's a Sri Lankan who can even bowl both right-arm off-spin and left-arm orthodox spin.
Can happen in golf too - Brian Close, took up golf as a right hander. As he batted left handed he reckoned this way his golfing would not hinder his cricket.
After Close retired from cricket he also played golf left handed. He maintained separate handicaps as a right hander and a left hander.
Fearnley v Zverev and Draper v Mensik on Saturday.
Unfortunately I won't be able to watch it as will be travelling to Oxford to watch Sue, Matt and Phil - not allowed to call it 'Question of Sport'
The reason that a lot of the very best batsmen batted left handed and bowled/threw right handed (Lara, Gower, Cook, Ganguly, Smith, Langer, Stokes, Hayden, Warner etc) and vice versa (Clarke and Finch) is because that is the way they were taught - batting always used to be perceived as needing to be top hand dominant in order to stop the bottom hand forcing the issue and to have more control over the shot. Tendulkar who batted and bowled right handed but, off the field, did everything, such as writing, with his left hand. There are instances of some that bowl and throw (Williamson) with different arms and some that have the ability to bowl with both arms such as Kamindu Mendis. With the advent of T20 cricket top hand dominance certainly isn't considered so much a necessity over here but one imagines that in the likes of India this still is very much the case in some instances as technique and timing is very much considered the underpin of batting with attacking shots layered on top of that.
There are a couple of other complications with cricket and that is whether you are right or left eye dominant. As a right handed batter, if you are right eye dominant then that eye isn't going to be in line with the ball which is why you do see players with a somewhat unusual and strained looking head position when facing the ball. Equally, some are right handed but left footed which, in the case of wicket keepers, can be a benefit when taking balls down the legside (standing up or back) because the left foot will be the one they spring off.
My son had never played golf before he had a lesson when he was 11 to see if he liked it. The very next cricket session the coach asked me "what's happened to his back lift"? I explained about the golf lesson and he, too, suggested that he played left handed. That was too much for my son to cope with given he was also playing tennis "right handed" at the time too (at the same centre as Emma Radacanu) and he never hit a golf ball in anger again until some 20 months ago at the age of 20 as a result. Playing right handed and at every opportunity too!
The left handed batter and tennis player do have one thing in common and that is that there are far less of them. Which does give them a bit of an advantage over their opponents in the sense that their opponents don't get to face so many of them. Whereas there are even less left handed golfers one suspects because it is a hell of a lot harder to source clubs. Left handed cricket bats and tennis rackets, on the other hand, are ten to a penny!
I have read how playing golf can help with cricket batting. It seems England may have taken that belief a little too far - and spend too much time playing golf and not enough in the nets!
I thought taking her to a tie break in the first set was good - me of little faith!
Yes, on my Betamax 🤫
Chang wrote a book 'Holding serve' which was always his main issue with the power hitters and servers like Becker and Sampras.
When Chang won the Slam in France, Tiananmen square was happening and how he kept his focus was hard to imagine for the New Jersey born with the Chinese heritage.
If Emma Raducanu can emulate Chang she will have had a brilliant career and even if she never gets to another slam final she is a success.
Navarro carried on, as she had done in the match, trying to keep the ball in play in order to wear Radacanu because that is what had worked previously but that allowed Radacanu to become the aggressor. Navarro's serve hadn't been great in the match anyway but, all of a sudden Navarro had no answer to the replies coming from Radacanu. Whether those four consecutives win games were "shit or bust" moments for Radacanu I don't know but she certainly played a different game at that point, albeit that she did miss two or three easy volleys to win vital points - those ones where a player has too much time to play it and isn't replying on instinct. A bit like an open goal that a 30 goal a season might miss.
If there is one aspect of Radacanu's game that she might improve it is her body language when things aren't going so well. Batters in age group cricket are encouraged not to show their disappointment when they've played a bad shot because that only gives encouragement to the bowler. If we watch someone like Steve Smith, he will say "great ball" when beaten but the inference in doing that is "that was a great ball but even your best one couldn't get me out". In the first set there was plenty of fist pumping when things were going Radacanu's way but when they weren't in that second set, she did look visibly defeated. That might have been as a result of her sore feet but the affect is still the same. Tennis is a game of very small margins at times and the last thing you want to do is to give your opponent encouragement. The very top players simply feed off that. I'm not suggesting that Radacanu can be as ice cool and Bjorg or Federer were (who were both serial racket throwers as teenagers but came to realise that doing that was counter-productive) or take it out on the officials as a McEnroe did but finding a way to channel that disappointment will, undoubtedly, stand Radacanu in good stead.
As I've said previously, for a Grand Slam winner, she hasn't had the sort of development pathway that many others have. That's not her fault in any shape or form. The talent is undoubtedly there and it isn't technical aspects that are holding her back. It is that experience of consistently playing long tournaments from a stamina perspective and in matches against the best in the world. When she won the US Open she played an incredible 10 matches to do so - but not one of those went beyond two sets. Since the US Open she has played 29 matches that have gone to three sets and won less than half of them whereas she has been successful in two thirds of her two set matches. It's a chicken and egg situation but the further she gets in tournaments and the more she plays, the better she will get. She's had a series of injuries that have constantly held back that development but, if she can stay injury free, find a coach such as Petchey (who she trusts and understands her but who, himself, has other commitments so is unlikely to be able to commit to her on a long term basis) then I'm sure she can go further.
Ultimately, what Radacanu wants to do is entirely in her hands. I'm not sure, though, that she's quite ready to retire and become a TV personality, commentator or concentrate on her business interests quite yet. She is set for life but show me a sports person that was happy that they retired too early and I'll show you a liar. Her elation at the end of the match was proof that she isn't quite ready yet to mothball her tennis rackets.
She's been a full time pro now for 4 years, how long will it take to reach acceptable levels of fitness?