Is Serena the Greatest?

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Quote: YORK -- By the time Serena Williams pulled into New York for the US Open, she'd been trying to move into a tie with Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert for the third-most Grand Slam singles titles in the Open era for a year.

But after falling out of the Australian Open, then the French Open, then Wimbledon shockingly early, Williams finally decided it was a self-paradox that was killing her: The same blast-furnace desire that had driven her to the brink of achieving more tennis immortality was now preventing her from taking this historic next step.

And so, long before her final Sunday against Caroline Wozniacki, Williams adjusted.

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Serena Williams, who admitted the pressure of Grand Slam No. 18 got to her, has tied two all-time greats in major titles.
While everyone else kept trying to put her career in context in anticipation of Sunday's win -- including Evert, who unhesitatingly calls Williams the best female tennis player ever, even if Steffi Graf (22) or Margaret Court (24) has more Slam titles -- Williams spent the weeks leading up to this US Open chopping down how much it meant to her to finally get Grand Slam No. 18.

In private moments, Williams said, she had the same talk over and over with herself the past eight weeks or so about the sweep of her career: "Serena, you've done everything you needed to do. Just have fun and enjoy yourself."

Fun she had Sunday afternoon after a straight-sets triumph over Wozniacki to match the legends. 

In her public utterances, her take was the same. A couple of days before Sunday's match with Wozniacki, Williams laughed and said, "It's almost a joke for me because I have done little to no winning in the majors [this year]. So I thought, take it as a joke: 'Oh, my God, I'm past the fourth round. Woo! ... I better play doubles just in case I don't make it past the second round. At least I have a backup plan.' And I think that definitely has been able to help me to relax as well.

"I tend

You go get that Title , babe  ::love::

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what ah sight eh.  hardly for sore eyes.  sorry for those with.... but I can see this easy!

martina was the best

there is a good argument for her...Martina Navratilova.  but she would not have been able to beat Serena....

also Martina Navratilova would not  have beaten players like  Sharapova, Clijsters,Wozniaki, Justine Hennen, who used to give Serena a world of trouble.  those girls wold have been much too big and powerful for that Martina

Navratilova would not have gotten to first base with Venus either.

size as well as skill and class would be too much for Navratilova.  it was way too much for Martina Hingis also, another short girl, who quit because she could not deal with the power of these modern generations of female tennis players. 

most of the current female tennis players are six footers or near six footers..powerful women with lots of skill too.  there is no way any of the older champions beating most of them.  the only comparable one was Pam Shriver who was a six footer herself but not all that great.  as I said..these girls are not only large and tall but they are very,very good players.

and Serena has beaten them all ever since the 1990's. that's the key.  she has beaten about 3 generations of women stars..all of them. none of the rest has done that.  that's the argument in her favour... plus the greatest serve ever seen in the women's game.

and yesterday Wozniacki broke that serve.  there are women around who have broken Serena's magnificent serve and defeated her.  you see.  but there is no way in hell Chris Evert.Martina Navratilova, Pam Shriver, Patty Austen and all the rest even getting close to Serena's serve.  they simply wont be able to handle it.  thats the difference between those players and that day... and this day here now.

its a new day, an advanced day.  the players are bigger, stronger, fitter, believe it or not faster, more skillful.

look at Venus, among the tallest of the lot.  she was like lightening in her prime, so fast she stunned people.  how can you be that big and so fast...like Usaine Bolt ::confused::  no one expected anything of the sort but there it is right in front of our eyes..large people yet as fast as any small person can be, zipping about the place.

that is why Serena is considered the best ever because she has consistently beaten the best of this new, unprecedented lot, for a long, long time

Maps, i know you got your eyes on Serena the woman....thats fine.

But as a tennis player there was none more dominant that Martina!  the woman is still playing today!!!

I would love Venus to SERVE :

me !  ::love::

If maps gets a serve, he might have a stroke! 

Serena might be the greatest, but these days I tune in to watch our very own Eugenie.  I occasionally watch the tennis also. ::LOL:: ::LOL:: ::LOL::

Eugenie: nice musculature  ::LOL:: ::LOL:: ::LOL:: ::LOL:: ::LOL:: but chess to flat.

maybe Serena cud lend her some!