Arantxa so often underperformed at the year end tournament. Getting to the final here was her best result. She reached the semi finals at her first attempt in 1989, but apart from that her record there was littered with disappointing results, including a first round loss to Halard in Arantxa's best year, 1994, 1995 to Zvereva, 1998 to Spirlea, 1999 to Schett and 2000 to Clijsters.
She didn't underperform really. Carpet was her worst surface, including grass. Mostly since she lacked the power, carpet favors power mostly. And she lacked the power of Graf, Seles, Pierce, Navratilova, Davenport, or even Novotna, Sabatini (when she hit out), Capriati or Huber. The most important aspect of carpet tennis is power, hence Sanchez could not do that well often on it.
Is it me or am I the only one who gets wild when Steffi hits a topspin backhand winner? 😁
me too!
Arantxa so often underperformed at the year end tournament. Getting to the final here was her best result. She reached the semi finals at her first attempt in 1989, but apart from that her record there was littered with disappointing results, including a first round loss to Halard in Arantxa's best year, 1994, 1995 to Zvereva, 1998 to Spirlea, 1999 to Schett and 2000 to Clijsters.
She didn't underperform really. Carpet was her worst surface, including grass. Mostly since she lacked the power, carpet favors power mostly. And she lacked the power of Graf, Seles, Pierce, Navratilova, Davenport, or even Novotna, Sabatini (when she hit out), Capriati or Huber. The most important aspect of carpet tennis is power, hence Sanchez could not do that well often on it.
Aranxta had no business getting to all those finals....this should have been Graf vs Seles