Too Nice?

Is it possble to have too much of a good thing?

Well according to blogger Patricia Davis it is. When watching the recent game between Lindsay Davenport and Ana Ivanovic on television Davis observed that there was something tangible lacking in the Serbs game. It is what seperates the good players from the genuingly great champions: steel.

Ivanovic's game is notable for its style and elegence, however there remains a suspision that she is mentally weak. She is in effect too nice.

In her blog Patricia Davis draws a rather obvious parralel between Ivanovic and Maria Sharapova:

"To borrow from movie heroines, I think Ana is too much into being a Mary Pickford, America’s Sweetheart. I for one would rather see her morph into an Anton Chigurrh type, the blood-curdling hit man Javier Bardem played in No Country For Old Men."

To all tennis followers it is blindindly obvious that Ivanovic possesses the skill to become a grand-slam champion, but her own mentallity may prevent her from fulfilling the potential.

It's time for the lamb to become the wolf.

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