TwistServe said:
Well we all know that girls player at slightly lower levels... like an NTRP 4.5 male should beat a NTRP 4.5 female pretty easily.. 6-2, 6-1ish.. and the NTRP 5.5 males should beat NTRP 5.5 females 6-1, 6-0.. anyway you ever got spanked by a girl in your same "level".. was she just too consistent and your power was neutralized?
I've played very few girls in singles.. played lots of them in mix doubles.. usually their serve sux, their groundstrokes are very consistent.. return of serve is pretty weak too.
Oh well. I'm a girl, but it's true that natural skeletal structure, muscles, and whatever are a huge advantage to men.
I'm a 4.5. My flat serve usually bounces just short of the back fence, and on good days will reach it around half the time. Just barely, though. I've got a kick serve that breaks to the right a little (not a full twist, though), and a good slice serve.
I've got good volleys and reflexes, and consistent drives on both wings for groundstrokes. I don't use heavy topspin.
I lose to men supposedly the same level at about 6-3, 6-4 most of the time. I have beaten men at the same level VERY rarely, just because they took too many risks.
I'd say if the girl doesn't have a weapon, but is consistent and plays as you described (that's...almost all girls, I concede) then the score would play out just as you said. Occasionally, when the girl's playing style just matches up, and she actually has a nice weapon, then the score would go up, and you'd get a win once in a long while.
By the way, I don't necessarily have problems with heavy topspin. I'm average height for a girl, at 5'6". But when you get the males who really just whack the hell out of the ball (always always not especially consistent) I often just can't hold out unless they're really adding on the errors.
At the lower NTRP levels, I was able to beat almost all males, simply because they couldn't keep it in play, period. I'm a 4.5 at the moment, and I can already say the difference in men is MUCH different. I have to play smart, and really focus on attacking weaknesses with different spins, whatever...often just to have a chance at a few games.
When playing against men, I usually lose when they're serving, simply because they can dictate the point from the start unless I get some kind of spectacular lucky return off.