Hingis Things

I think she can make the semis of the Open, but then again I'm always in her corner.

Anyway, reading this interview after her first round win, today, two things crossed my mind (actually three):

1. She really does have a ton of perspective for someone who is 26, and she wasn't always known for that. It's good to see how much she's grown. I think the part where she says that, overall in her career, she doesn't really feel like there are many matches she'd go back and change (so she could have won more) because she recognizes that many things did go her way that could have easily not have, and that really things balanced out.

2. It's totally cute how she calls the Energizer bunny the "ongoing bunny." lol

3. I think we often forget, when different sports personalities are given different character types by sports media and fans -- that Hingis is more a thinker than an athlete, for example -- that ALL of these people (the supposed crybabies, the tacticians, the ones who are said to not train very hard and rely on natural ability), ALL of them are TOTAL JOCKS. I mean we can't even really conceive of what superior athletes they are. They are orders of magnitude more jockish and consumed by athletics than anyone we have ever met, and I think we totally forget that. I do NOT think of Hingis as more athletic than, like, the biggest football jock I've ever met, for example, but she totally is. They all are. It's kind of weird to think about. I know I'm throwing around the word "jock" a lot, but it's because I am just so stunned that it never really occurred to me that people like Hingis, even when they are thought of more as brains than bodies, are total athletic MACHINES lol.

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