Estevão “Messinho” Willian U-17 World Cup debut.
Despite the loss, he was electric once he came on. Trying to be the protagonist, kept asking for the ball and skipping past players like nothing 💫
🔴🔵🔜
#U17WC#Messinho#FIFAU17WorldCup
One of the funniest conversations is talking to professional athletes about tennis. They all respect the hell out of it because they actually understand what elite athleticism looks like.
Then you talk to some guy who played high school sports and he thinks tennis is easy.
These are 6’4”, 6’6”+ freak athletes moving like gazelles for four to five hours, making decisions at hockey speed, with the hand-eye coordination of a baseball player, the reaction time of a fighter, and the endurance of a boxer mixed with an ultramarathoner.
And they have to do it while controlling a ball with inches of margin, point after point, completely alone.
There’s a reason elite athletes respect tennis.
Sorry, if you still can’t see it, you’re probably the dweeb who got picked last for dodgeball in middle school.
Nadal used to lock himself up and take additional training sessions if he lost 2 sets in the first round….Now RG finalist is celebrating with a beer after winning US open R1…
Tennis is cooked….