Thursday, August 30, 2007

Service coach needed--badly

Watching Martina Hingis serve is making me cringe. The rest of her game is as sharp as ever, but even if her back and hip do completely heal (which is questionable at this point), that second serve is going to get eaten by any number of players. The odd thing is that I have seen Hingis serve really well since she came back onto the tour. She will serve very well for a few games, then go back to executing mediocre first serves and poor second serves. Her coach says that in practice she serves really well. So she has the ability to deliver serves that are good enough to win matches, but she does not deliver them consistently. If this is a head problem, I hope she gets someone to help her. And if it is just a service problem, surely there is a specialist who can help her.

Note to Jelena Jankovic: Though you are not in need of this specialist as much as Hingis is, it wouldn't hurt you to sign up, too.

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