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**jessyhalm** · 07-24-2010, 06:22 PM

Very nice seeing Jidkova's name in the qualy draw. But you gotta wonder (and I don't say this to slight her, because I like her) where does the drive come from at this stage of your career?

She's 33 and hasn't made it to a main level WTA match all year (she has not won a WTA level main draw match since the old Quebec City event back in the fall of 2007). She mixes ITF events with attempts to qualify into a number of tour events each year.

Stanford qualies is the 14th event she has entered this season. Her record for the year is 7-13. Yet she finds the motivation to pick up and move on to the next city week after week, while not even (seemingly) making enough money for airfare to the next tournament.

It's probably the same thing that keeps Jill Craybas coming back year after year after year after century....without doing that much of significance in the tennis world......except coming back year after year after year after ....century!

That year that she did really well at Wimbledon....she was interviewed by the sports desk covering the event and the only thing she had say really...(beaming all the while) is that she loves tennis

How's that for motivation?

07-24-2010, 06:22 PM	#12
jessyhalm Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 499 Senior Member	Very nice seeing Jidkova's name in the qualy draw. But you gotta wonder (and I don't say this to slight her, because I like her) where does the drive come from at this stage of your career? She's 33 and hasn't made it to a main level WTA match all year (she has not won a WTA level main draw match since the old Quebec City event back in the fall of 2007). She mixes ITF events with attempts to qualify into a number of tour events each year. Stanford qualies is the 14th event she has entered this season. Her record for the year is 7-13. Yet she finds the motivation to pick up and move on to the next city week after week, while not even (seemingly) making enough money for airfare to the next tournament. It's probably the same thing that keeps Jill Craybas coming back year after year after year after century....without doing that much of significance in the tennis world......except coming back year after year after year after ....century! That year that she did really well at Wimbledon....she was interviewed by the sports desk covering the event and the only thing she had say really...(beaming all the while) is that she loves tennis How's that for motivation?
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