Taylor Townsend, Sloane Stephens, Donald Young, Gabrielle Andrews (potentially), Victoria Duval, Megan Moulton-Levy, as well as a few others that may have the potential but are yet to prove themselves in competition.
Um, slower than Nadal in tennis conditions, more injury prone (because of the extra height and weight), probably has lower fitness potential than a tennis player in terms of the sort of length and frequency tennis matches require (perhaps he could have tailored himself to tennis - but he's have to train differently and perhaps couldn't hack it.. .who knows).
I have watched him play. He could still completely suck at tennis movement. Basketball players guys do ****-all explosive lateral movement compared to tennis players. The vast majority of their distance is running 3/4 pace to the other end of the court. In tennis conditions - running side to side 10m back and forth over and over - Nadal, not to mention Federer, Djokovic etc would still be doing it at a canter while James had already thrown in the white flag. A guy his size has no chance at the sort of movement required to play tennis at the very top level when you also factor in the duration and frequency of matches. If he was lighter perhaps he'd be closer - but then he probably wouldn't be the basketball player he is either in that case.
Call me when a basketball player plays 90 entire matches a year - that go 1.5-4 times the length of a basketball match. Also - most of this distance, as I said above, is little more than jogging to the other end of the court. And most of them do it without much coordination or concentration required since they don't have the ball.
Tennis matches are played with more frequency than basketball when they're in tournament mode. At the majors it's every second day for two weeks - with no substitutes, days off, no sharing the workload with anyone else etc. At lower level tournaments they can play five matches in 7 days.
I have, you are wrong. He could be as coordinated at tennis as a 12 year old girl for all we know - in fact the anecdotal evidence backs me up. No-one who excelled at another sport ever showed up in tennis and was any good at all. You have nothing to go on other than he can catch/pass/shoot a basketball. That's about as relevant as saying a Dentist would make a good golfer because they're practised at fine hand movements and have steady hands.
Utterly, utterly irrelevant details with regards to the benching amount. Strength of that sort plays almost no part in serving technique or quality. In fact being that sort of strength would be more likely to inhibit a serve by way of lack of flexibility.
And this is the post where we found out that you're trolling. Good play, had me for a while but you went a little too far, too soon.
Pretty much. I still replied to his post anyway. It wasn't exactly hard to poke holes in most of the comments.
What about jockey or race car driver?
No they are obviously not, but if they were, I still wouldn't try to push them into a sport for the purposes of what will reap the largest possible financial gain.
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