tennis

Overall physical fitness and training standards of pro tennis players - today's top tennis players are simply better athletes.

Shanghai also has a museum whose centerpiece is a tennis-court-sized 1:500 scale model of the city's downtown.

Roger Federer and Pete Sampras are still the norm as far as tennis champions are concerned.

Go play tennis with a stranger or even squash or whatever you can.

Anna Kournikova also routinely beat people who had better technique in tennis.

But, Wal-Mart sells a low quality Velcro tennis shoe for $10.

Like a Messi in Soccer Michael Jordan in Basket,or Sampras, Federer in tennis, there are people that are-was really much better in their field than anybody else.

Counter example would be Marion Bartoli who won wimbledon against all odds and her own limits, pushed by her father, then immediately stopped being a professional tennis player.

I don't think you two are playing tennis on the same court.

A college tennis player would beat Serena.

For example Serena Williams: the best tennis player in WTA history by huge distance and she would be smoked by any men who is on ATP list even if overweight and smoking between games.

Or something you enjoy, like hiking, cycling, basketball, tennis, etc.

It is the same in sports (football, basketball, ice hockey, tennis), if you have to hesitate and consciously think, you are "in your head" and you'll be beaten.

I think that, as in tennis and cricket, there should be the right of challenge, and if the person doesn't know the meaning of the word, the go doesn't count and the word is removed." ~ MichaelBulley I am sure Mr Bulley would prefer it if Chess players could challenge their opponent to prove he or she is a either a Monarch, a Lord, Knight or at the very least a commoner who lives in a castle.

As for the "wrong turn" of the internet, I think it's just the transition from amateur to professional, same as it happened with sports in the XX century: > Before the advent of the Open era of tennis competitions in April 1968, only amateurs were allowed to compete in established tournaments, including the four Grand Slams.