Roland Garros - Power Alone Is Not Enough On Clay - Says Schiavone Reuters

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PARIS Fri Jun 3, 2011 9:10am EDT

PARIS (Reuters) - While the ladies adventure has grown an increasing number of power-based within latest years, simply bludgeoning the particular golf ball across websites are not adequate to acquire the French Open, champ Francesca Schiavone stated about Friday.

Venus and also Serena Williams, as well as Maria Sharapova are usually just some in the players who've taken power-hitting to a brand-new level over the beyond few years however their minimal good results about clay proves that gamers cannot easily depend about flexing their muscle tissues in order to win the Suzanne Lenglen Cup.

The trio have claimed twenty three majors somewhere between these folks considering that 1999 nevertheless only one of these Serena's achievements from Roland Garros in 2002 includes happen to be accomplished to the red stuff.

Italian sixth seed Schiavone, who'll handle Chinese sixth seed Li Na within Saturday's final, is over a 13-0 skills at Roland Garros in addition to credited the girl achievements to somewhat of a mixture off her sliced backhand plus re-writing forehand, coupled with your girlfriend power to help quickly switch tactics.

"You have to be good physically, mentally, have fine tactics. You are unable to perform simply power, since you constantly must maintain and also counterattack," Schiavone shared with a news conference.

"So once you have fun with a position on clay, it is possible to defend, next attack, and then check out the internet after which you can need to preserve again.

"You must utilize this," the girl added, going to her head. "For positive on clay in conversation with utilize simply just the particular power."

The 30-year-old Milanese is bidding to be the sixth woman to be able to preserve the girl bill from Roland Garros considering that rugby changed specialized inside 1968.

Margaret Smith Court, Chris Evert, Steffi Graf, Monica Seles as well as Justine Henin have realized the actual accomplishment already.

If Schiavone ties in which exclusive tavern about Saturday, your lady is looking towards uplifting many young Italians to choose in place that sport.

"Last season any time I received the French Open, the particular percentages of the persons which indication with your tennis club, the actual kids, have been much higher than before," the lady said.

"So that's good."

(Reporting by means of Julien Pretot; Editing by )