Tennis is the Least of Her Worries

One of the stories coming out of Wimbledon concerns an issue much bigger than the sport itself. Ninth seed Daniela Hantuchova has become a cause for concern, not for her play but for her extremely low weight. While obviously no one knows for sure, many have speculated that anorexia is to blame for her alarming thinness (scroll down a third of the page). For all the talk about how male athletes use their body structures to cheat the game (i.e. steroids in baseball), something as sad as Hantuchova's situation reminds us that athletes can also abuse their own bodies. Now I know that the issues causing eating disorders are far deeper than just an athlete with an obsessive training regimen. But hopefully other athletes, both male and female, can look at this and realize that altering your body's natural structure can be very dangerous.