Ha ha ha. Aggie? Aw.
I know what you mean about the visceral dislike of certain players. I don't know why but I can't hardly stand Madison Keys; something about her irks me.
it's just our own human frailty maybe. at least for me -- it's probably just me - and i have my own ''moods" towards players ...but heck - we can have our likes and dislikes - and being self-indulging --
and that just happens to be my set of indulgence not liking these two i named...
i mean -- i DIDN'T like HINGIS at all because of how presumptuous she was about having replaced MY steffi and talking smack abotu steffi in her absence or was struggling in her comeback from her knee that was almost career- ending -- and definitely probably career- shortening anywayWHEN Stefanie got sick and tired of all the 'slavery to training and it's not fun anymore" (as she said at that time)
BUT i was always in awe of HINGIS' talent -- and i am NOT with radwa's.
hingis had TONS - KABOODLES of attitude yes -- even very insulting to me steffi -- BUT hingis DID back it up with her performances and during a time when HER style -- extraordinary as HER TALENT was WAS not A VERY RARE thing at all...TOUCH was STILL very much as much as the order of the day as opposed to the more ''bang,bang style" from the baseline today - even from the weaker players -- so
HINGIS - in her TALENT did HAVE to shine among players who HAD plenty of variety -- not least steffi herself , or davenport, or novotna...etc..that are in very short quantity nowadays where RADWA'S sheer LACK OF POWER (WHICH hingis had MORE of, in reality) --
MAKES her artificially stand out like she's some kind of genius when in fact she is NOT --just a pusher who puts in the ''original style" of her UGLY looking squash shot -- and is a ''mystery" to most player sTODAY who simply are NOT familiar or trained in how to deal with ''no power" shots , no pace shots
that was SO much a PART of the variety that characterised the graf era IN WHICH HINGIS stepped in and proved HERSELF ALONG with a healthy measure of HER own power (except that serena and venus SIMPLY were far, far too much for her to handle inthe end and HAD their OWN bag of touch tennis) .
so -- i have this distaste for radwanska -- maybe because of this HYPE like she is some kind of ''revelation from heaven"
when in fact - it's really just because she knows how to play what amounts to a SMALL GAME -- that 90 percent can't figure out because it has DISAPPEARED from THEIR own arsenals!
an allegory would be :
"when you are singing against CHOIR that doesn't know how to sing soft notes -- then YOU look like a genius for having a SMALL VOICE".
BUT -- LOOKING like a genius and hyped as such -- does NOT make you ONE!
it only really means -- you have a SMALL voice among people who dont know how to practice singing softly ...that's all really.
then on TOP of that -- her attitude that i find cold and thinly veiled in its condescension at the shots her rivals make (especially when they WIN the point) - is like watching someone who thinks she is OWED that RUN to the finals in majors when all she is capable of against the REAL big time , big game players on a good day of focused tennis the way they SHOULD ...
is to get SQUASHED like a bug on court.
HINGIS had the attitude that went with her REAL high quality talent , hands and brain -- backed up by her five majors.
radwa has attitude that ISN'T backed up by that kind of achievement.
and i DON'T care what people say about how polite and soft-[spoken she is...to me -- she gives off that ''feel" that somehow she thinks she actually is BETTER than the ones that actually WIN THE BIG prizes and finals than she or OVER her.
and as far as i am concerned -- she is the queen of the small tournaments -- like SEOUL open...........so people need to stop HYPING her as if she is some kind of world beater.
