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by ankit0411 » Sun Sep 09, 2012 1:06 am
According to some sports historians, professional tennis players develop unique playing styles that result from a combination of the peculiarities of each player's physical attributes and the influence of coaches during their early adaptation to the game. But when the increase in strength and endurance of modem players is discounted, it becomes readily apparent that the playing styles of the current crop of professional tennis players are no different from the styles of players from previous generations. Clearly, there is a universally efficient tennis style to which all professional tennis players conform.

The argument above is most weakened by which of the following statements?
(A) The differences in physical attributes among tennis players are even more pronounced than the sports historians believe.
(B) Few current professional tennis players are familiar with the professional tennis players of fifty years ago.
(C) The increased strength of current tennis players contributes more to the development of individual playing styles than does increased endurance.
(D) All of the early coaches of today's professional tennis players were professional tennis players themselves earlier in their lives.
(E) Weight training and greater attention to diet are the primary factors in the increased strength and stamina of the current generation of professional tennis players.

OA after some discussion . Please discuss each answer choice.
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by natali » Sun Sep 09, 2012 8:06 am
ankit0411 wrote:According to some sports historians, professional tennis players develop unique playing styles that result from a combination of the peculiarities of each player's physical attributes and the influence of coaches during their early adaptation to the game. But when the increase in strength and endurance of modem players is discounted, it becomes readily apparent that the playing styles of the current crop of professional tennis players are no different from the styles of players from previous generations. Clearly, there is a universally efficient tennis style to which all professional tennis players conform.

The argument above is most weakened by which of the following statements?
(A) The differences in physical attributes among tennis players are even more pronounced than the sports historians believe.
(B) Few current professional tennis players are familiar with the professional tennis players of fifty years ago.
(C) The increased strength of current tennis players contributes more to the development of individual playing styles than does increased endurance.
(D) All of the early coaches of today's professional tennis players were professional tennis players themselves earlier in their lives.
(E) Weight training and greater attention to diet are the primary factors in the increased strength and stamina of the current generation of professional tennis players.

OA after some discussion . Please discuss each answer choice.
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by GMATGuruNY » Mon Sep 10, 2012 5:48 am
ankit0411 wrote:According to some sports historians, professional tennis players develop unique playing styles that result from a combination of the peculiarities of each player's physical attributes and the influence of coaches during their early adaptation to the game. But when the increase in strength and endurance of modem players is discounted, it becomes readily apparent that the playing styles of the current crop of professional tennis players are no different from the styles of players from previous generations. Clearly, there is a universally efficient tennis style to which all professional tennis players conform.

The argument above is most weakened by which of the following statements?
(A) The differences in physical attributes among tennis players are even more pronounced than the sports historians believe.
(B) Few current professional tennis players are familiar with the professional tennis players of fifty years ago.
(C) The increased strength of current tennis players contributes more to the development of individual playing styles than does increased endurance.
(D) All of the early coaches of today's professional tennis players were professional tennis players themselves earlier in their lives.
(E) Weight training and greater attention to diet are the primary factors in the increased strength and stamina of the current generation of professional tennis players.

OA after some discussion . Please discuss each answer choice.
Premise: The playing styles of the current crop of professional tennis players are no different from the styles of players from previous generations.
Conclusion: There is a universally efficient tennis style to which all professional tennis players conform.

To weaken the conclusion, the correct answer must offer an ALTERNATE LINK between the playing styles of previous generations and those of the current generation.

Answer choice D: All of the early coaches of today's professional tennis players were professional tennis players themselves earlier in their lives.
This answer choice offers an ALTERNATE LINK between the past and the present -- THE COACHES -- implying the following sequence of events:
The coaches themselves were players earlier in their lives.
When they became coaches, the coaches taught their playing styles to the current crop of players.
The result: No change in playing styles -- NOT because there is a universally efficient tennis style to which all professional tennis players conform, but because the playing styles of previous generations have been PASSED ON by former players (the COACHES).

The correct answer is D.
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by ankit0411 » Mon Sep 10, 2012 7:13 am
GMATGuruNY wrote:
ankit0411 wrote:According to some sports historians, professional tennis players develop unique playing styles that result from a combination of the peculiarities of each player's physical attributes and the influence of coaches during their early adaptation to the game. But when the increase in strength and endurance of modem players is discounted, it becomes readily apparent that the playing styles of the current crop of professional tennis players are no different from the styles of players from previous generations. Clearly, there is a universally efficient tennis style to which all professional tennis players conform.

The argument above is most weakened by which of the following statements?
(A) The differences in physical attributes among tennis players are even more pronounced than the sports historians believe.
(B) Few current professional tennis players are familiar with the professional tennis players of fifty years ago.
(C) The increased strength of current tennis players contributes more to the development of individual playing styles than does increased endurance.
(D) All of the early coaches of today's professional tennis players were professional tennis players themselves earlier in their lives.
(E) Weight training and greater attention to diet are the primary factors in the increased strength and stamina of the current generation of professional tennis players.

OA after some discussion . Please discuss each answer choice.
Premise: The playing styles of the current crop of professional tennis players are no different from the styles of players from previous generations.
Conclusion: There is a universally efficient tennis style to which all professional tennis players conform.

To weaken the conclusion, the correct answer must offer an ALTERNATE LINK between the playing styles of previous generations and those of the current generation.

Answer choice D: All of the early coaches of today's professional tennis players were professional tennis players themselves earlier in their lives.
This answer choice offers an ALTERNATE LINK between the past and the present -- THE COACHES -- implying the following sequence of events:
The coaches themselves were players earlier in their lives.
When they became coaches, the coaches taught their playing styles to the current crop of players.
The result: No change in playing styles -- NOT because there is a universally efficient tennis style to which all professional tennis players conform, but because the playing styles of previous generations have been PASSED ON by former players (the COACHES).

The correct answer is D.
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by Ganesh hatwar » Tue Sep 11, 2012 8:29 pm
GMATGuruNY wrote:
ankit0411 wrote:According to some sports historians, professional tennis players develop unique playing styles that result from a combination of the peculiarities of each player's physical attributes and the influence of coaches during their early adaptation to the game. But when the increase in strength and endurance of modem players is discounted, it becomes readily apparent that the playing styles of the current crop of professional tennis players are no different from the styles of players from previous generations. Clearly, there is a universally efficient tennis style to which all professional tennis players conform.

The argument above is most weakened by which of the following statements?
(A) The differences in physical attributes among tennis players are even more pronounced than the sports historians believe.
(B) Few current professional tennis players are familiar with the professional tennis players of fifty years ago.
(C) The increased strength of current tennis players contributes more to the development of individual playing styles than does increased endurance.
(D) All of the early coaches of today's professional tennis players were professional tennis players themselves earlier in their lives.
(E) Weight training and greater attention to diet are the primary factors in the increased strength and stamina of the current generation of professional tennis players.

OA after some discussion . Please discuss each answer choice.
Premise: The playing styles of the current crop of professional tennis players are no different from the styles of players from previous generations.
Conclusion: There is a universally efficient tennis style to which all professional tennis players conform.

To weaken the conclusion, the correct answer must offer an ALTERNATE LINK between the playing styles of previous generations and those of the current generation.

Answer choice D: All of the early coaches of today's professional tennis players were professional tennis players themselves earlier in their lives.
This answer choice offers an ALTERNATE LINK between the past and the present -- THE COACHES -- implying the following sequence of events:
The coaches themselves were players earlier in their lives.
When they became coaches, the coaches taught their playing styles to the current crop of players.
The result: No change in playing styles -- NOT because there is a universally efficient tennis style to which all professional tennis players conform, but because the playing styles of previous generations have been PASSED ON by former players (the COACHES).

The correct answer is D.

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If questions asks most weakened den should the answer choice by which gives alternative link

I thought even A weakens

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