Comments on: Aces and Faults: WTA Tour to Fine Players for Extra Medical Timeouts http://www.onthebaseline.com/2008/11/12/aces-and-faults-wta-tour-to-fine-players-for-extra-medical-timeouts/ Women's Professional Tennis News, Results, and Commentary Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:59:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: BB http://www.onthebaseline.com/2008/11/12/aces-and-faults-wta-tour-to-fine-players-for-extra-medical-timeouts/comment-page-1/#comment-32425 BB Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:19:09 +0000 http://www.onthebaseline.com/2008/11/12/aces-and-faults-wta-tour-to-fine-players-for-extra-medical-timeouts/#comment-32425 "The Sony Ericsson WTA Tour will begin charging players who exceed six or seven medical timeouts in the 2009 tennis season." WOW. Being punished when your body fails you too much, how nice. What's the idea here, to force players to stay healthier (good idea but no guaratees)? Play less aggressively to better avoid injuries (nice try)? Play through pain and risk serious injury (one way to "bump off" players I guess)? Or, it's just another sign of tough economic times, I suppose. Always about the money. “The Sony Ericsson WTA Tour will begin charging players who exceed six or seven medical timeouts in the 2009 tennis season.”

WOW. Being punished when your body fails you too much, how nice. What’s the idea here, to force players to stay healthier (good idea but no guaratees)? Play less aggressively to better avoid injuries (nice try)? Play through pain and risk serious injury (one way to “bump off” players I guess)? Or, it’s just another sign of tough economic times, I suppose. Always about the money.

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