Sanchez Habsudova French Open 1996

QF Aranxta Sanchez vs. Karina Habsudova

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Sports

Tags:

• Tennis
• Grand
• Slam
• French
• Open
• Roland
• Garros
• Sanchez
• Habsudova

[helkel11]

you can hear the boo-ing at the end. ASV was just moonballing the whole time. a legit tactic, but the world no 2 should have more in their arsenal.

[garsdumoulin]

I remember this game like it was yesterday! Habsudova had an amazing tennis... she was so smart! Too bad she couldnt handle sanchez vicario's high balls on this match.

[icetorm229]

Arantxa was such a boring pusher

[grafgirl27]

@celtavigo77 Yes she resorted to the only tactic she could use to possibly throw Habsudova off in the nick of time. It was a last resort tactic and you know what it worked. You cant fault her for that, you can fault Habsudova for falling apart because of that, a sign of a very weak mental game which is probably why we never heard much of her again. I agree it is foolish to think Sanchez was just a moonballer. Anyway Sanchez was the #4 seed here so technically she wasnt World #2 at the time.

[celtavigo77]

ASV reach every grand slam final at least twice, if not more!! I dont think she did that by just moonballing her way there... She used a tactic here which she knew she could hurt Habsudova (not like nowadays when the girls just simply try and hit harder and hope for the best!)

[colm160875]

if you watch the thing properly, you will see that yes she moon balled beacause she knew karina hated playing high balls. Then ASV moved in to end the point. a win is a win

[sharliex]

and she had more than the high balls.....you dont get to two wimbledon finals only by rising the balls.....