Serena Williams - best woman ever in an individual sport?

Ion Tiriac - "It isn't a good look for our sport when the women's No.1 is nearly 40 and 90 kilograms".

lancecheated wrote:

Armstronglivs wrote:

Ped's. That's how you do it at 38.

Did you vote for Trump by any chance?

Not American. Or you a moran by any chance?

In 2005 in tennis no player utterly dominated the sport as we see today. Agassi, nearing retirement, had 6 slams, Federer was then on 7, Hewitt 2, Roddick 1, Ferrero 1 and Gaudio 1. Up till then, that was fairly typical of the sport. Sampras's record in 2002 of 14 slams was more than double that of his closest contemporary, Agassi. Top players were typically pretty much finished by age 30-32.

Today we see that 3 male players in their mid to late 30's - Federer is 38 - and one woman player, also 38, have amassed almost 80 slams between them. 80! Bulgarian weightlifting has nothing on tennis, and indeed the current No.1. woman wouldn't look out of place on their team. (Neither would Nadal.)

Armstronglivs wrote:

Not American. Or you a moran by any chance?

You'd no doubt vote for Trump if you were!

Other than Americans and Naomi Osaka,. women's tennis is totally dominated by Eastern Europeans now. Margaret Court didn't have to compete against Eastern European) except perhaps Navratilova when their careers overlapped briefly).

Without reading the thread, I’ll theow out the following;

Ummmm ever heard of Babe Didrikson?

So it’s pigeon holes of Osaka, Americans, and East Europeans? Where does the current number one fit?

Wejo/Rojo please subcategorize this as a tennis thread .

Quite obvious a lot of men here like to dress up in women’s clothing .

yourjealousyishowing wrote:

Armstronglivs wrote:

Not American. Or you a moran by any chance?

You'd no doubt vote for Trump if you were!

I'll take that as a "yes" to my question.

tycobb wrote:

She turns 38 this month and just destroyed the 18th ranked player in 45 minutes.

What women have been more dominant?

She's dominant because the standard of competition in women's tennis is absolutely awful.

Steffi Graff had the likes of Monica Seles, Navaratilova, Chris Evert, Venus Williams, Martina Hingis, Gabriela Sabatini and had a winning record against all of them.

The only 'rivalry' Serena Williams has is with Maria Sharapova, a person she hasn't lost to for 14 years.

Other than Serena, I doubt if any of the top 10 players today would get into the top 10 of 2005 or 1995.

Coevett wrote:

tycobb wrote:

She turns 38 this month and just destroyed the 18th ranked player in 45 minutes.

What women have been more dominant?

She's dominant because the standard of competition in women's tennis is absolutely awful.

Steffi Graff had the likes of Monica Seles, Navaratilova, Chris Evert, Venus Williams, Martina Hingis, Gabriela Sabatini and had a winning record against all of them.

The only 'rivalry' Serena Williams has is with Maria Sharapova, a person she hasn't lost to for 14 years.

Other than Serena, I doubt if any of the top 10 players today would get into the top 10 of 2005 or 1995.

+1

Coevett wrote:

tycobb wrote:

She turns 38 this month and just destroyed the 18th ranked player in 45 minutes.

What women have been more dominant?

She's dominant because the standard of competition in women's tennis is absolutely awful.

Steffi Graff had the likes of Monica Seles, Navaratilova, Chris Evert, Venus Williams, Martina Hingis, Gabriela Sabatini and had a winning record against all of them.

The only 'rivalry' Serena Williams has is with Maria Sharapova, a person she hasn't lost to for 14 years.

Other than Serena, I doubt if any of the top 10 players today would get into the top 10 of 2005 or 1995.

Shocked to discover Coevett feels this way! Tell me isn't so!

Serena is certainly not even the best female tennis player. Not sure this is a woman anyways. If yes, I do believe she is the best fat black woman with 3D shoulders to play tennis.

Dumazzeseverywhere wrote:

Serena is certainly not even the best female tennis player. Not sure this is a woman anyways. If yes, I do believe she is the best fat black woman with 3D shoulders to play tennis.

Coevett?

Oh, come on. You can’t fault Maggie for the era that she played in. She was born when she was born. And she did in fact have to play vs many quality players. Also had to deal with more burdensome travel and training.

Court was also a mother. In fact has 4 times as many kids as SW, and started having them earlier in her career.

Court also played well more doubles and mixed doubles matches.

Court also played right handed, even though she was a natural left handed. She was throwing the competition a bone.

Let's go Serena!

coach wrote:

Let's go Serena!

I wonder if she will smash her racquet, call the umpire a "liar" and a "thief", or threaten to "ram the ball down the f*cking throat" of a lines-person.

coach wrote:

Let's go Serena!

She went, all right. I’m not a fan.

So it looks like CAN > USA in women tennis.

Like in the women 1500m, mile and 5000m