The 23-year-old Lorenzo Museti from Tuscany, Italy, lasted three and a half sets against Carlos Alkaraz in the French Open semi before pulling up the cramps.
About 120 out of 145 minutes they spent on the court, Museti gave the champion for their money. Perhaps the Italian will lose the Italian; He did not beat the Spaniard in any of the last five meetings. However, it was not just another semi -final loss in the annual Grand Slam tournament. For many, it was personally.
Museti, who ranks first, is the best player alone in the world. The leader of the dying breed of men and women who have been postponed aside the sports science-refueling is considered to be too weak, with the evolution of carbon fibers, nylon strings and vibrating lovers who provide great power and control-but they still press it.
Grigar Dimitrov and Stefanas Tystypas in the Top 30, which have a one-handed back. But only eight people in the top -100 work with the most elegant stroke in tennis. The women’s tour is not in the top -70, and only three in the top -100.
These are impractical, romantic crazy ones, no matter how many coaches and experts tell them to switch. For them there is pride for playing a shot. The liquid arc, like a one-handed back, gets into the slice or goes back to the top to bloom the following, that’s the poetry in motion that the tennis can never be.
These are professional players who want to win, but this is a stroke that defines their love for the game – nod if you want Don Buj, Ken Rose, Lavel Rod, John Makenro, Martin Navuratilov, Stefan Edberg, Pitte Sampot, Justin Henin and Roger Federal.
Talking about the revolution
The problem with the uniform Bekhend, Navorava, is that in 2016 it practically requires brilliant. Nautilov, who won 18 titles of the great helmet, used a one-handed sourdough-not the most elegant stroke avatar, but an effective mixture of slices and top rotations, which created one of the most aggressive submission games and vali in history.
What Novutilov said nine years ago, is especially important, because she appeared to be the most important innovation in sports, because the Wild Fosbury flop in the Mexico Olympics changed his high jump forever.
Here’s the short content of what happened.
In 1954, Chris Evert, a great competitor of Navurava, was born into a tennis family in Fort -Lodard, Florida. Her father, Jimmy Evert, was a professional coach. Chris was five when she first came to the playground, and when Jimmy realized that he could not create sufficient force on the side, he urged her to try to use both hands – a temporary search for a young girl borrowed from Australians by Vivian McGrath and John Bromwich, who used it in the 1930s.
Chris found that the stroke worked great. The repetitive movement, using a stronger right hand to support, was similar to hitting the plantation on the other side. Well, if it is compromised on reach; She could compensate for this more fitness. And what if it didn’t look so great; It did the job.
When Evert started climbing the ranks-like 14-year-old guy who made the semi-finals of the older event, a 15-year-old guy who won the world # 1 Margaret Court, a 16-year-old girl who was invited to the US, and a 19-year-old champion with a double grand helmet began to take note Power.
During the next decade, while Evert and Navurav were closed in the battle for philosophy in women’s tennis, it helped a two -room case that Jimmy Conners burst on the male side like a stroke that was encouraged by the Mother Gloria Connor. And it helped Björn Borga, who appeared with a stranger with a double -sided hand, which had a tougher abandoned, inspired by the first days of the hockey player.
And so the revolution – though not beautiful – was broadcast.
Separating the shot
It took a couple of decades from the Everto-Conars era to change the balance.
Big champions such as Samparas and Federer from the masculine, and Count and Genin on the women’s side hid the fact that the changes were really on us until we woke up one morning in the modern world of sports technology. The world in which Musetti, Dimitrov and Titipas, with the zero titles of the great helmet, is the last samurai fighting for a stroke, threatening to get lost in time.
The blow, which, said Nautilov, now requires a brilliant game.
But this is the hope that everything is over; To make someone rise, not just to celebrate the shot, but also to defeat it. To what is a sport without brilliant trait?
