07-10-2022, 03:31 AM
Effort doesn’t top talent no matter how much we’d like to see fairytale endings. Many of us might like to fantasise about being a popstar while we sing in the shower but the only way most of us would make money out of singing is if those who are forced to listen to it pay us to stop singing.
The funny thing is that we’ve already seen an example of a player who dominated female tennis through sheer hard work, but rather than seeing this as a heartwarming story of the universe being just for a change it was seen as a perversion of the sport. Caroline Wozniacki held the World No. 1 ranking for 71 weeks and was a decent player. But she was a defensive grinder who owed her stay at the top to her fitness and the WTA’s decision to incentivise players through the ranking system to enter as many tournaments as possible. While other players like Serena dominated the Slams, Wozniacki filled her boots with lesser titles. It wasn’t until 2018 that Wozniacki finally won her maiden and only Slam, the Aussie Open. There was much whinging during her reign as the World No. 1 that players who focussed on peak competition at the Slams weren’t recognised in the rankings when they were clearly the best players in the world.
The funny thing is that we’ve already seen an example of a player who dominated female tennis through sheer hard work, but rather than seeing this as a heartwarming story of the universe being just for a change it was seen as a perversion of the sport. Caroline Wozniacki held the World No. 1 ranking for 71 weeks and was a decent player. But she was a defensive grinder who owed her stay at the top to her fitness and the WTA’s decision to incentivise players through the ranking system to enter as many tournaments as possible. While other players like Serena dominated the Slams, Wozniacki filled her boots with lesser titles. It wasn’t until 2018 that Wozniacki finally won her maiden and only Slam, the Aussie Open. There was much whinging during her reign as the World No. 1 that players who focussed on peak competition at the Slams weren’t recognised in the rankings when they were clearly the best players in the world.