Posted by Kerbicz on 26/9/2007, 0:14:35, in reply to "My thoughts for next season" But, revenons à nos moutons... You compared Anna Chakvetadze's performance to that of Martina Hingis. There's also another current player, younger and less known than Anna, that is being compared to Martina. It's Agnieszka Radwañska of Poland, 18 (seemigly the first genuine tennis talent in my country since 1930's). She lacks power & endurance (a drawback that can be worked off in the future, I hope), so she relies on cleverness and a variety of counter-punches rather than killer strikes of her own. She made a remarkable progress in the previous season: while ranked 309th at the moment of her WTA debut on May 1 - at the season's ending, six months later, she was already 57th. This year's progress wasn't equally impressive, yet she managed to enter the top 30 and record two spectacular wins: over Maria Sharapova in the US Open and over Martina Hingis earlier in Miami. I'm not a tennis prophet like you, Paul
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Justine Hénin, Jelena Jankoviæ, Ana Ivanoviæ, Nicole Vaidi¹ová, Ágnes Szávay, Alizé Cornet, Lucie ©afaøová ..... 
. English-speaking people have never been keen to respect diacritics in foreign names, clearly because they don't know them (the diacritics) from their own writing. English remains probably the only living western language that relies entirely on the genuine (postclassic) 26-character Latin alphabet, without any accents, umlauts, cedillas and so on. (I disregard the handful of peculiarities like naïve, fiancée etc - they actually are not English words but kind of French fossils, aren't they?) How did it happen, I wonder?, so I don't know whether Agnieszka will ever reach the Top Ten or a Grand Slam's final game, but I will surely keep my fingers crossed for her.
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