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Not Guilty said:
You also have a lot more than 60 feet to react. You have a much bigger racket than a baseball bat and you don't have to worry about near the arsenal of different pitches in tennis.
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Without a doubt. But that isn't what he said. Personally I have no interest in watching or playing tennis. But I do know you at least have to be in shape to play it. When some of the best players in baseball are extremely overweight, it tells me something about the sport.
 
TheLongHaul said:
Without a doubt. But that isn't what he said. Personally I have no interest in watching or playing tennis. But I do know you at least have to be in shape to play it. When some of the best players in baseball are extremely overweight, it tells me something about the sport.
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Round ball and round bat is much more difficult to hit than round ball and flat racket. You have to be in better cardio shape in tennis but there is a broader skill set needed to excel in baseball.
 
JasonS said:
Round ball and round bat is much more difficult to hit than round ball and flat racket. You have to be in better cardio shape in tennis but there is a broader skill set needed to excel in baseball.
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such as??? Hand eye coordination may be the only one?
 
psax889906 said:
Hitting the 90MPH fastball isn't the difficult thing (relatively speaking)... it's hitting the sweeping slider or 75MPH Changeup that comes after it that's difficult and separates all of us from MLB players.

I enjoy both tennis and baseball. Though I can't get into tennis outside of the major tournaments.
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A lot of people have this feeling, and I get that. Majors are a lot better of course. Have you ever been to the tennis tournaments in Mason? I usually go a few times a year, however I don't know about this year. It was great when the men's and women's events were in different weeks, now it's the same week, so that sucks.
 
TheLivingLegend said:
such as??? Hand eye coordination may be the only one?
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You have to be able to read the ball coming off the bat. You have to be able to catch a ball coming at you a hell of a lot faster than a tennis serve especially if you play first or third base. You have to be able to throw a ball. You have to have short burst quickness.

The hardest thing to do in sports is to recognize a pitch, swing a round bat and hit a round ball. Sports Science has done studies on this. It's not even close.

You don't have to like the sport and quite frankly I could care less if you do but you can't take away from the skill set these athletes possess.
 
I love baseball and tennis, so let me just say one thing about the difficulty of hitting a round ball with a round bat and getting it to go where you want. That task is widely accepted as possibly the hardest in all of sports, and I don't disagree. That's why if someone could even do it half of the time, they'd be all-world.

The simple act of hitting a tennis ball is easier than this by itself, but imagine increasing the size of the strike zone by 1000x and increasing the pitch speed to about 130 mph (though the distance between players is 17' longer in tennis than in baseball), and it becomes pretty stunning that tennis players can return the ball into a much more precise area at a 90+% clip.

Baseball is to be respected, but so is tennis, even if it is a country club sport. At its highest level of play it's absolutely ridiculous.
 
Kingsley Court said:
A lot of people have this feeling, and I get that. Majors are a lot better of course. Have you ever been to the tennis tournaments in Mason? I usually go a few times a year, however I don't know about this year. It was great when the men's and women's events were in different weeks, now it's the same week, so that sucks.
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Yes I've been to Mason for the Men's tournament twice. Saw Rafa Nadal up close and personal on the warm up courts... he is ripped beyond belief.
 

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