College Tennis: Female Style
It may be a bit odd to start off a tennis blog with collegiate tennis – women’s collegiate tennis at that! I’m sure many expected me to start my soon-to-be extremely awesome tennis blog with something important. But what is important? Another spiel about how awesome Roger Federer is? About how many weeks he has been dominating the number one position? Or maybe yet another post about Maria Sharpova’s on-court wardrobe? They will be covered, believe me. But not right now.
Right now, I want to talk about women’s collegiate tennis. I was at a match the other day at Washington State University and was a bit surprised that I was one of a handful of spectators. Perhaps I shouldn’t have been surprised – no, I probably shouldn’t have been. But I was. At the very least, where were all the young gents to take note of the short-skirted ladies? (Extremely sexist, I know…but – I’m a woman so I can say that…right?)
It was a decent match in the No. 1 bracket. I take that back, it was a horrible match-up, a complete blow-out. But the hitting was good, the shot making was good. She found the corners, the hit it low and hard. It was quite beautiful for a young college lady. She wouldn’t last long against Justine Henin but neither did the Williams sisters.
