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From: cccallan@ucdavis.UUCP (Allan McKillop)
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Subject: Re: What's happening with Bollettieri's tennis kids?
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Date: Sat, 5-Oct-85 19:58:41 EDT
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> > Horvath and Bonder are not with Bollettieri anymore.  I believe...
> I think  they parted after things began looking kinda sour.

no, i believe both left because they thought that "nick" was not
able to spend enough time on them personally, so they switched.

> 
> > I think what is more interesting in the men is the tendancy to not
> > have a well rounded game.  Arias and Krickstein both have/had great
> > forehands, but thier backhands that would have trouble cracking eggs.
> > Take away Korita's serve, and what do you have?  not much.
> 
> Yes, Aries and Krickstein stay quite a bit to the left (protecting
> backhands), but "trouble cracking eggs"? Arias almost throws
> his arm out of the socket when he hits backhand - very hard-hit shot!
> He does not slice it too often or too gracefully. Krickstein's
> two-hander is not bad at all - hard to read, good lob,...
> 

but if you look at arias' backhand, he uses only his arm.  no wonder
he is having physical problems.  ok, maybe "trouble cracking eggs"
was a poor choice of words, but the fact is that arias' backhand is
a liability.  did you see his match against thomas smid at the open?
his backhand was pitiful.  if he learned to hit more with his body
(ala eliot teltscher or ivan lendl who both hit the backhand harder
than alias without all that wasted movement), i think his game might
pick up tremendously.

> That's probably right, but note that these two and Horwath
> had grave injury problems. Conditioning may be a factor.

hmm....  horvath?  i don't recall any major physical difficulties
from her in a while.  when she first broke on to the scene, yes.
but that was because of a physical deformity (one leg was 1/4th
inch longer than the other, i believe).  i guess you might call
this "an injury problem", but that depends if you also call tracy
austin's back problems an injury.  they were both there before either
started playing tennis, but the amount of tennis they played emphasized
the problem.  as for arias and krickstein, i think it stems from playing
too much too soon.  they were both playing on the professional circuits
well before their body's were physically ready for the year-long grind.

> 
> Actually I suspect some psychological problems, but can't pinpoint
> any...
> 		Mike Cherepov

really?  i don't see anything radically different in the bollettieri kids
than the other professionals.  and aren't we forgetting carling bassett?
so far, she (1) plays well on more than just clay (beating mandlikova 2
times this year on hard courts) (2) has had no major physical problems
and (3) she seems reasonably (mentally) well adjusted.  is she the
exception or the rule?

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Allan McKillop
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