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The average height in tennis, just like in modern society, is getting higher and higher.
Now we see players over 1.90 meters tall who were once just serverbot prototypes, knowing how to handle themselves very well in the game from the baseline thanks to a mix of mobility, speed and coordination of the highest level, to which they obviously necessarily combine an ability to generate power and see angles in the service superior to that of the "able-bodied".
Average height is increasingly higher so much so that some commentators have gone as far as to say that the best tennis talents potential sports such as volleyball and especially basketball are stolen from modern tennis.
I mean a boy 2 meters tall and above for a whole series of reasons is more attracted to basketball rather than tennis.
On the other hand, however, there is the fact that we are coming off an epic characterized by 3 players who dominated the circuit for twenty years, and whose height did not exceed 1.88 meters, in general the height of the big three ranged from 1.85 meters (Nadal) to 1.88 meters (Djokovic).
And in the meantime, a generational phenomenon has exploded like Alcaraz whose height does not reach 1.85 meters.
So the question is renewed.
Now we see players over 1.90 meters tall who were once just serverbot prototypes, knowing how to handle themselves very well in the game from the baseline thanks to a mix of mobility, speed and coordination of the highest level, to which they obviously necessarily combine an ability to generate power and see angles in the service superior to that of the "able-bodied".
Average height is increasingly higher so much so that some commentators have gone as far as to say that the best tennis talents potential sports such as volleyball and especially basketball are stolen from modern tennis.
I mean a boy 2 meters tall and above for a whole series of reasons is more attracted to basketball rather than tennis.
On the other hand, however, there is the fact that we are coming off an epic characterized by 3 players who dominated the circuit for twenty years, and whose height did not exceed 1.88 meters, in general the height of the big three ranged from 1.85 meters (Nadal) to 1.88 meters (Djokovic).
And in the meantime, a generational phenomenon has exploded like Alcaraz whose height does not reach 1.85 meters.
So the question is renewed.