I see it over and over on these pages, "If you ban poly from professional tennis, then all that will be left are servebots".
There are more successful players with huge serves and not much else now than in any other era of tennis. Karlovic is the obvious example and his career began after the introduction of the strings that have removed virtually all variety from tennis.
Sampras, Becker, Edberg were not servebots. They were all court players who had exceptional serves. As "bad" as all the people who were still in school during the 90s think they were, a guy named Agassi won Wimbledon in the 90s, without poly strings. Neither Sampras nor Becker ever made a French Open final. Edberg did once and lost to Chang. Yes, Chang. Is that servebot domination?
It's a bit rough to call Goran nothing but a servebot when he had an infinitely better net game than the current Wimbledon champion. For that matter, even Sam Groth (who was no Pat Cash) had a better net game than Djokovic, but Grothy never made it past the third round. Sam should not be in the hunt on the red dirt, but never past the third round on grass? Is that right?
I contend that poly strings make it impossible for the greatest all court players to be successful playing that style of game, but really not much else.
Disclosure: I play with poly crosses and love them, because they make groundstrokes easier.
There are more successful players with huge serves and not much else now than in any other era of tennis. Karlovic is the obvious example and his career began after the introduction of the strings that have removed virtually all variety from tennis.
Sampras, Becker, Edberg were not servebots. They were all court players who had exceptional serves. As "bad" as all the people who were still in school during the 90s think they were, a guy named Agassi won Wimbledon in the 90s, without poly strings. Neither Sampras nor Becker ever made a French Open final. Edberg did once and lost to Chang. Yes, Chang. Is that servebot domination?
It's a bit rough to call Goran nothing but a servebot when he had an infinitely better net game than the current Wimbledon champion. For that matter, even Sam Groth (who was no Pat Cash) had a better net game than Djokovic, but Grothy never made it past the third round. Sam should not be in the hunt on the red dirt, but never past the third round on grass? Is that right?
I contend that poly strings make it impossible for the greatest all court players to be successful playing that style of game, but really not much else.
Disclosure: I play with poly crosses and love them, because they make groundstrokes easier.
