Tennis Styles

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Tennis Styles

by Haaress » Fri Apr 30, 2010 5:10 pm
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.

This question being a Weaken type , could you please start by stating which of the statements is a Conclusion and which ones are premises. Is it correct that in this type of questions, we hold the evidence as true and only undermine the conclusion.and the stimulus is taken as the truth.
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by beat_gmat_09 » Fri Apr 30, 2010 7:44 pm
Haaress 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.

This question being a Weaken type , could you please start by stating which of the statements is a Conclusion and which ones are premises. Is it correct that in this type of questions, we hold the evidence as true and only undermine the conclusion.and the stimulus is taken as the truth.
Premise 1 -
Professional tennis players + uniq style results from combination of peculiarties of physical attr + influence of coaches

Premise 2 -
increase in strength and endurance is discounted, styles of current play are same to styles of players from prev generations.

Conclusion -

Universally efficient tennis style to which all professional tennis players conform.

According to premise 2 we dont have to consider the strength and endurance hence rule out A,C and E.
I am a bit skeptial about B but i think that the argument does not wants us to focus on familiarity with the tennis players of fifty
years ago.

D is correct because this explains why the tennis styles of current gene are same as tennis styles of older gene because
they (older tennis professionals) are the coaches of current professionals.

Please post the OA.

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by paddle_sweep » Fri Apr 30, 2010 10:30 pm
IMO it's C. It's a weakening qn. Pls post the OA.

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by beat_gmat_09 » Sat May 01, 2010 6:52 am
OA ?

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by SmarpanGamt » Sat May 01, 2010 10:39 am
beat_gmat_09 wrote:
Haaress 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.

This question being a Weaken type , could you please start by stating which of the statements is a Conclusion and which ones are premises. Is it correct that in this type of questions, we hold the evidence as true and only undermine the conclusion.and the stimulus is taken as the truth.
Premise 1 -
Professional tennis players + uniq style results from combination of peculiarties of physical attr + influence of coaches

Premise 2 -
increase in strength and endurance is discounted, styles of current play are same to styles of players from prev generations.

Conclusion -

Universally efficient tennis style to which all professional tennis players conform.

According to premise 2 we dont have to consider the strength and endurance hence rule out A,C and E.
I am a bit skeptial about B but i think that the argument does not wants us to focus on familiarity with the tennis players of fifty
years ago.

D is correct because this explains why the tennis styles of current gene are same as tennis styles of older gene because
they (older tennis professionals) are the coaches of current professionals.

Please post the OA.


IMO D , B is shell game states about 50 years professional tennies players whom are out of scope