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Originally Posted by killer_carlson
Genie has one of the best returns in women's tennis. It's awesome and her power is fine. That part of her game is legitimately world elite.
her serve is not where it needs to be for her to win a major. Her second serve was exposed this week. She'll be able to generate break opportunities against her opponent, but will be facing break points on her own serve all day long until she gets this cleaned up.
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But it's not world elite. The narrative she's a great returner is really not grounded in reality, she didn't finish in the top 10 of a single returning stat last year. Can she become elite? Yes, but she is not that right now. Halep for instance is clearly better in terms of returning skill, so is Sharapova, so is Radwanska.
And it's not even her second serve...her first serve is becoming incredibly problematic. She's averaged under 100MPH first serve in Australia. That simply is not going to cut it when the top women are hitting 110MPH consistently (and Serena routinely over 115MPH). Her first serve needs as much work as the second serve.
Genie still has great potential but a lot of work to do to become a true top 5 player. She is only 9-17 against top 10 players. That has to get better or she'll top out pretty much exactly where she is right now.
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Originally Posted by nemanja2306
I see Raonic's upside like Berdych. A consistent top ten player who can threaten the elite guys, win a few masters, and with inevitable retirement/decline of the big three, perhaps a major or two. But never considered an elite player in the way Federer, Nole and Nadal are elite.
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Nothing to bash. This is a pretty accurate summation of Milos right now.