Will players fully adapt to the physically demanding tennis climate?

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Supreme physical fitness has become the biggest component of a top pro's game. It is argued that this is because of the present necessity to adapt to the slower conditions brought upon, in part, by tennis technology. No longer is a player able to break through to the top of the game with subpar physicality, relying only on one's hands or feel for the game.

Do you think conditions will reach a point when a tennis player's physicality and reflexes catch up to the current slow, demanding tennis climate, given the climate stays the same, resulting in super-athletes that have adapted to the slow courts with strokes bigger than ever and reflexes quicker than ever? ...thus allowing an even more potent version of 90s power tennis to come about.
 
No:lol::lol:

Posters like you are what make this place a bad joke.....

The guy starts a good thought provoking thread and you come up with this...

Go and talk about hypothetical match ups and tiers and goats and peaks with the rest of the children.
 
Supreme physical fitness has become the biggest component of a top pro's game. It is argued that this is because of the present necessity to adapt to the slower conditions brought upon, in part, by tennis technology. No longer is a player able to break through to the top of the game with subpar physicality, relying only on one's hands or feel for the game.

Do you think conditions will reach a point when a tennis player's physicality and reflexes catch up to the current slow, demanding tennis climate, given the climate stays the same, resulting in super-athletes that have adapted to the slow courts with strokes bigger than ever and reflexes quicker than ever? ...thus allowing an even more potent version of 90s power tennis to come about.

Tennis players today are far superior athletes and more physical then even 10 yrs ago so yes....they will probably get even better
 
Tennis players today are far superior athletes and more physical then even 10 yrs ago so yes....they will probably get even better

Though the idea behind slower conditions is to raise the viewership of tennis and build long lasting brands for those players at the top of the game, if conditions persist, physical specimens may become less of a rarity and more of a prerequisite due to human adaptation, and tennis can begin to resemble the big hitting era of the 90s that tennis big wigs were trying to move away from.

it could be a good thing.
 
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