Helping to choose the right sport The results of the survey are based on the statistics of thousands of elite athletes. Among a list of 42 criteria to be examined were: limb length, ability to use oxygen, flexibility and genetic factors. The in-depth program is used to calculate which sports kids are best suited to. It told ACT Brumbies and Australia flanker George Smith to try his hand at rugby union and Brett Lee to give cricket a whirl. But, like all things mechanical, the magic computer has dealt its fair share of no-balls. Take world number one tennis star Lleyton Hewitt for example. It appears he has been wasting his time jet-setting around the tennis circuit all these years. With a match-up just shy of 100%, Hewitt could have been giving Tim Montgomery a run for his money as a champion sprinter instead. Conversely, his suitability to tennis rating is a feeble 2.9%. ******** Amazingly, none of the athletes studied were best suited to tennis. Even Henman only recorded his own game as his second best sport - after volleyball. Other interesting parallels see Andre Agassi as the perfect footballer [soccer player] and Greg Rusedski as a world class rower. Women's star Amanda Coetzer goes down as a potential body building legend. With Bells Beach within serving distance from Melbourne Park, it also declares Sebastien Grosjean as a natural surfer. His rating was 98% - even higher than three-time professional world surfing champion Tom Curren. And Martina Hingis could possibly have made a splash in another sport - she has a 98% rating as an Olympic swimmer. It also seems bizarre that Elena Baltacha looked so lost in her first-round defeat at the Australian Open. The British number one has the perfect physique for orienteering. So why do the likes of Hewitt and Coetzer have such high ratings as sprinters and body builders - and yet such poor ratings when it comes to tennis? "If you are not the normal height and weight of a tennis player, you need to have the physical capacity to make up for it," added Flanagan. "What Hewitt lacks in height and weight, he makes up for in speed. "But he is not a natural tennis player like Henman." Surely the world rankings can't be wrong? ******** Suitability to tennis: Top 5 men Tim Henman: 95.8% Pete Sampras: 94.1% Michael Chang: 81% Marcelo Rios: 86.8% Andy Roddick: 77.6% Suitability to tennis: Top 5 women Jennifer Capriati: 95.9% Martina Hingis: 94.6% Chanda Rubin: 81.3% Justine Henin-Hardenne: 73% Elena Baltacha: 72% What sport should they be playing? Tim Henman: Volleyball Lleyton Hewitt: Sprinting Andre Agassi: Football [soccer] Pete Sampras: Australian Rules football Greg Rusedski: Rowing Serena Williams: Netball Venus Williams: Lacrosse Anna Kournikova: Badminton Elena Baltacha: Orienteering --

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