{"id":802,"date":"2008-02-27T18:01:50","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T02:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/?p=802"},"modified":"2008-02-27T18:01:50","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T02:01:50","slug":"a-tennis-career-in-six-words-or-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/a-tennis-career-in-six-words-or-less\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tennis Career in Six Words or Less"},"content":{"rendered":"

How would you describe Maria Sharapova\u2019s tennis career, or anyone else\u2019s for that matter, in six words or less?<\/b><\/p>\n

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Just before that Ray Davies piece in The New Yorker<\/a>, there\u2019s a story about a new book called Not Quite What I Was Planning<\/a>, a book of six word autobiographies. Not Quite What I Was Planning, get it? It\u2019s a six word autobiography.<\/p>\n

If I were to write my own six word autobiography it might look like this: \u201cHonest, I\u2019ll eventually get it right.\u201d What about tennis professionals? What would theirs look like? Instead of exactly six words, we\u2019ll allow six words or less.<\/p>\n

Maria Sharapova<\/b> is finally developing a net game or, maybe it\u2019s safer to say, her allergy to the net has improved much as I can now drink milk without, well, you don\u2019t want to know. Still, her game is power so I nominate the following for her career autobiography: \u201cIf I could hit it harder\u2026\u201d The obvious unsaid ending is \u201cI would\u201d but we\u2019re only allowed six words.<\/p>\n

Roger Federer<\/b>\u2019s might be \u201cFly like a butterfly sting like a bee\u201d which is more than six words and is completely stolen from Muhammad Ali<\/b>, so how about this: \u201cMost dominant except for Tiger.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pete Sampras<\/b>, poor guy, he gets so much grief for his charisma shortcomings so we could go with this: \u201cEverything was boring but my game,\u201d but I prefer, \u201cWill throw up for a win.\u201d<\/p>\n

Martina Hingis<\/b> has now retired to her horses and her boyfriends, but when she was playing, there was no smarter player out there and that little grin of hers let you know that she knew it. Therefore I give you: \u201cThe cerebral assassin strikes again.\u201d<\/p>\n

In this month\u2019s issue of Tennis View, a new lifestyle magazine by Teresa Thompson, Teresa asks James Blake<\/b> to complete the following sentence: \u201cI wish journalists would stop asking me\u2026\u201d I\u2019ll let you guess his answer but I will offer you this as his six word tennis autobiography: \u201cStop asking me about my goals.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Daniela Hantuchova<\/b> turns her back to her opponent at the beginning of each point to psyche herself up, I always assume she\u2019s singing the refrain from the Pointer Sisters song, Yes We Can Can<\/a>. I imagine her singing, repeatedly: \u201cYes I can can, can can.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many six word autobiographies could describe Ana Kournikova<\/b> and most of them would focus on her many assets, but here is one that highlights her assets without directly mentioning them: \u201cWho needs titles to be famous?\u201d<\/p>\n

Lastly let\u2019s tackle one of the best ever, Chris Evert<\/b>. She was a conservative little miss in her earlier years. That changed over time as only it could if you were thrown into a locker room with rabble rousers Martina Navratilova<\/b> and Billie Jean King<\/b>, but one thing that never changed was her dominant will. I offer this with all due reverence: \u201cLess than perfect, don\u2019t be ridiculous!\u201d<\/p>\n

As you can see, this kind of thing is not exactly my forte so help me out here in two ways:<\/p>\n

1. Give us your autobiography in six words or less.
\n2. Give us an autobiography in six words or less for your favorite and least favorite player.<\/p>\n

Best set of autobiographies gets a copy of the book, Not Quite What I Was Planning<\/i>. For real.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How would you describe Maria Sharapova\u2019s tennis career, or anyone else\u2019s for that matter, in six words or less? Just before that Ray Davies piece in The New Yorker, there\u2019s a story about a new book called Not Quite What I Was Planning, a book of six word autobiographies. Not Quite What I Was Planning, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,116,118,119,76,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daniela-hantuchove","category-maria-sharapova","category-martina-hingis","category-martina-navratilova","category-pete-sampras","category-roger-federer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}