The top 100 women players now come from 33 countries





Depth means more talent, more players who can knock the bejesus out of a ball. But there’s a difference between more good tennis players and more great ones. Stacey Allaster, chairwoman and chief executive of the Women’s Tennis Association, says that there are more great ones. One morning, she delivered the tour’s basic message. “Our underlying mission and values remain as strong as they were in 1973,” she said,Shop popular brands and stores to find handkerchief on sale , all in one place.The DSQUARED2 SHOESused for making these outfits is the perfect one, which is used for satisfying all of the fashion enthusiasts. “plus we have greater responsibility now in going to places like China and the Middle East, showing the world that women are strong and deserve to be treated equally.” Feminist missionary work aside, tour executives see global outreach as critical to the bottom line, especially as fewer top players are from the United States, traditionally the sport’s biggest market.

The top 100 women players now come from 33 countries, most of the best from Eastern Europe — countries like Russia,produced a high quality Recycle Bag set which including one backpack and one tote bag Serbia, Poland and the Czech Republic, nations hungry to nurture the sport. America’s problem, if there is one, may be a lack of urgency and the fierce competition from other sports. At Wimbledon, I found Nick Bollettieri, whose Florida academy has churned out droves of tour players over the years. He was watching an academy product, Michelle Larcher de Brito, a gifted Portuguese player with an ear-shattering grunt, giving Serena Williams a brief scare on Center Court, walloping backhands to the corners before Williams aced her way out of trouble.

“You hear all sorts of theories — it’s probably just a passing phase,” Bollettieri shrugged about the American situation, then finally decided for the theory that “the best American girls are not going into tennis.”

One positive result has been that tennis has developed a larger, increasingly global audience. Western media outlets took notice when Andy Murray reached the semifinals at Wimbledon and 10 million Britons tuned in on television. But when one of China’s top female players, Zheng Jie, played at Wimbledon last year, as Allaster pointed out to me, 100 million Chinese watched on CCTV.

Par juicycouturewatches le vendredi 01 juillet 2011

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