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Non vaccination costs tennis star $4.4 million!
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<blockquote data-quote="Zeno Marx" data-source="post: 569334" data-attributes="member: 1211"><p>Anyone who doubts mental strength being the fulcrum in sports need only watch women's tennis. Osaka's mental fragility, but outside of that having as much power as many of the men. Or the countless women who can crush their opponent for a set and 5 games, until they had to serve for the match, completely blunder their service game, fall apart, and then end up losing the match in the third set. Some don't like to watch weakness, though. Heck, most do not. I happen to prefer watching weakness play out. Who is going to overcome, or merely stay focused, and prevail? I can't believe I'm drawing a blank right now as to give examples, but one of the big reasons there hasn't been a stand-out women's player since Serena is because so many of the potential greats fall apart as they're closing their matches. There's been so many who were thought to be the next big thing, only to have that particular weakness exposed. On the funny side of that, it drives the older players, like Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert absolutely bonkers to watch the women unable to close a match. People with nerves of steel and the resolve of machines, cringing at the very thing that many people cite as being "typical weak women." When Martina Navratilova is analyzing a match and this happens, you can practically feel her shifting in her seat in the booth, the whole time biting her tongue from lambasting them. She's not very good at hiding her displeasure.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zeno Marx, post: 569334, member: 1211"] Anyone who doubts mental strength being the fulcrum in sports need only watch women's tennis. Osaka's mental fragility, but outside of that having as much power as many of the men. Or the countless women who can crush their opponent for a set and 5 games, until they had to serve for the match, completely blunder their service game, fall apart, and then end up losing the match in the third set. Some don't like to watch weakness, though. Heck, most do not. I happen to prefer watching weakness play out. Who is going to overcome, or merely stay focused, and prevail? I can't believe I'm drawing a blank right now as to give examples, but one of the big reasons there hasn't been a stand-out women's player since Serena is because so many of the potential greats fall apart as they're closing their matches. There's been so many who were thought to be the next big thing, only to have that particular weakness exposed. On the funny side of that, it drives the older players, like Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert absolutely bonkers to watch the women unable to close a match. People with nerves of steel and the resolve of machines, cringing at the very thing that many people cite as being "typical weak women." When Martina Navratilova is analyzing a match and this happens, you can practically feel her shifting in her seat in the booth, the whole time biting her tongue from lambasting them. She's not very good at hiding her displeasure. [/QUOTE]
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