Pull her wide and the point is over

...I watched the match yesterday between Kim Clijsters and Maria Sharapova. Other than big-serving, this was the single strategy each woman deployed against the other. Pull her wide and the point was over. Wide to the forehand and then wide to the backhand. Over and over. Rinse and repeat. And it worked. First Maria did it to Kim with fantastic results. But all that running back-and-forth took a toll and she started fading. Then Clijsters took over. Pull Maria wide and the point was over. Maria started going for more frantic power. Pull her wide and the point was over. And then Kim won...

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