Posts tagged: Mauresmo

David Ferrer’s journey on the professional tour

If you have followed David Ferrer’s journey on the professional tour in the last one and half decades, you can’t help, but, to think that it could and should have been a more illustrious career than it has turned out to be so far.

Of course, Ferrer is unlucky to be playing in the era of some of the legends of the game.

Also, he is not the tallest guy around in the circuit. He is decently tall yes, but, a couple of more inches would not have done him any harm at all.

Ideally, you want yourself to be somewhere around 6 feet if you have to play lawn tennis. All the top quality players in the world today are there and thereabouts.

Height plays a key role in tennis. It helps you so much in terms of your serve and that’s why, it has often been seen that the tall players have that added advantage which makes them flourish especially on quick surfaces.

Ferrer does not have that luxury, but, still, the kind of skills he has, one would have expected him to have at least one Grand Slam to his name by now. Read more »

Amelie Mauresmo

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Amelie Mauresmo enjoying Murray challenge – Wimbledon 2014

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Tennis Video Lesson 13: Amelie Mauresmo Jumping Topspin forehand.

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L’oeil d’Emilie en Australie – Amélie Mauresmo

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Smash Court Tennis 2- Serena WIlliams vs Amelie Mauresmo

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