Re: Hingis to return to tour

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 22:58:57 GMT, "Vari L. Cinicke"
<cinicke@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Sakari Lund wrote:
>
>> On 29 Nov 2005 14:33:42 -0800, byrdsfan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>
>>
>>>She played very well in Team Tennis, really had no opposition on way to
>>>the title. THere were some tour players in there and that gave her
>>>confidence.
>>
>>
>> I still don't know anything about this Team Tennis despite reading
>> posts about it here for years. Can you give some names she beat there?
>> And is it "having fun kind of exhibition" or are they a little bit
>> serious there too?
>
>World Team Tennis - http://www.wtt.com/
>
>Hard to explain. It is a team/league tennis that has trying to
>popularize tennis. Lots of former pros are involved and the atmosphere
>is contagious and the players appear to be having a ball. The only
>exception is John McEnroe who takes every match far too seriously.
>
>It is certainly not as serious as the tour and the level of the players
>tends to vary a lot. The matches are not as long or as intense as tour
>matches. They also use no-ad scoring. Maybe even less intense than many
> exhibition matches.

That's pretty much as I have imagined. So Hingis winning matches there
tells us absolutely nothing about her chances on Tour. Although the
previous poster said she beat "some tour players", but I am starting
to think they were Chris Evert and Tracy Austin...
.

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