Re: Curious Notes on the WTA Year-End #1



pedrodias@xxxxxxxx wrote:

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> I could like balance - if it meant great players standing toe-to-toe
> and duking it out to a season-ending wire.
>
> I could live with a Tour in transition, where the fairly good trade
> wins and we wait to see who comes out on top, or whether greatness
> emerges from the pack.
>
> This Parade of the Damaged, the Near-Dead and the Quasi-Retired the WTA
> has turned into... This I find singularly charmless.

That about sums up my feelings. Balance as a result of
different players winning by bringing different things to
the court is one thing. Balance as a result of everyone
playing the same way and collapsing at about the same
frequency isn't worth the bother.

--
The fundamental division of powers in the Constitution of the
United States is between voters on the one hand and property
owners on the other. -- Arthur Twining Hadley, 1908
(Quoted in Alpheus Thomas Mason, _The Supreme Court_)
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