RustyCage wrote:
People have unrealistically high expectations of her, mainly based on a good patch she had where we went deep into a few tournaments and won the US Open. People then thought she’d be doing that week in week out. She’s a 20-30 ranked player based on her performances. Making the second week of a tournament is a good result for her. She struggles with the mental side of the game, that’s well documented, but that’s not what stopping her from being a top 10 player.
Was a different scenario with Hewitt, he would dominate the world over, then do very little in his home event. His mental toughness couldn’t be questioned, it’s more our playing surface isn’t his strong point. The more gritty, graft out a result surfaces of Wimbledon and the US Open were more his forte
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At the end of the day Stosur was a doubles player who tried her hand at singles and ended up doing some great things. En Route to the French Open final she beat 3 top 10 players and then a year later had the tournament of her life and beat the best womens player of all time in the US Open final. Knocked of Serena comfortably as well, Serenas power game suited her playing style imo. Stosur always let herself down with her high un forced error count, that was one of her biggest problem imo
I still think Hewitt should have own more grand slams than he did. Had the perfect timing of being at his best while Sampras and Agassi were winding down and just before Federer started taking the piss. Had it not been for Federer he may have won more Grand Slams, Fed did past him good and proper most of the time they played from 03-07. He did make the Aus Open but ran into a red hot Safin. Boy did Hewitt win some battles on the way to that final.