I think the critiques of her field are much later, like Woz era. But that’s so ridiculous considering that she essentially played three to four different generations. Just because the last one wasn’t as strong as the ones before (at least top 5) doesn’t mean shit. She’s survived all those generations and when she dominated in 2002-3 women’s tennis had never been stronger.
@@JamesFrew1 try to see serena Williams VS wozniaki wta finals semifinal and tell me that was a weak era, i know you cant compare that era with 1999-2008 era but It was not a bad era and wozniaki was not a bad player
The best era was the late 80s and early 90s with Graf at the top of her game alongside Navratilova, Evert, Seles, Sanchez Vicario, Sabatini, Novotna, Pierce and others.
@@PravoslavniVitez Grafs era was pathetic. She rarely faced any competition, Everett was on her way out and Navratilova was too. It wasn’t until Monica Seles came along that anyone really challenged Graf. And Seles thumped her good. Right before the “incident “ Seles had started to routinely beat Graf. Serena definitely had more competition than Graf. Name 10 ladies that actually challenge Graf I dare you.
Serena was so athletic back then. This tournament really was the springboard for her incredible 2002 season, which still in my opinion, contained the most dominant performances by a female tennis player ever.
@@chillguy102 And how would Steffi know that? She won the CYGS, Serena did not. Steffi has more weeks at #1, more YE #1, more titles, higher career win %, a quadruple Career Slam and is the only player to win 6 Slams on each surface. She also had a higher peak than Serena and was more dominant and consistent.
It is astounding to consider all the future Hall of Famers who were part of this particular generation in women's tennis, mostly making up the Top 10 for a decade. Compare that period to today's Top 10. Yikes!
Honestly kinda the same thing that is happening with men's tennis aswell considering people like jack sock or carreno busta became top 10 players yikes
The ticket sales don’t lie. These women used to get all the seats packed. Even Sharapova’s matches sold much more tickets than any current WTA player. People don’t find any of the the current players that appealing.
Fewer compelling personalities and fewer bankable stars tournaments can count on consistently making deep runs. Things best for marketing and ticket sales.
Yeah similar skill set to Sharapova but her strokes were even more sound and she had variety and was great at the net. It’s really too bad she didn’t have killer instinct because she really was a 5-7 level slam athlete at least.
@@JamesFrew1 Davenport did gave great ground strokes but her movement was piss poor. Especially from side to side. If an opponent tried to go toe to toe with Davenport and didn’t move her around, Lindsay could match them and often out hit them easily. But Serena and Venus would move her around to expose her limited movement.
What a MATCH! I really admire Lindsay's precision & power and simply her attitude at the end of the match. Lindsay apparently respected SERENA'S game and one sees the respect is mutual. THIS IS REAL TENNIS. SERENA became the BEST by playing the BEST. Margaret Court was a joke. Lets be real people... tennis in her day ? Really now... Both Serena and Lindsay were great here. A real roller coaster of a ride.
Can someone please find serna vs hingis at this usopen 2001....It was.on utube i watch the match about a month 1/2 ago.. and i went to watch the match between hingis vs serna 2001 usopen and it was gone.
I was at this match, in the 2nd row and I saw myself & my friend several times in this video. Serena won and I was a Lindsay fan, but what an amazing match.
@@nultyjack8219 Why is it that praising a player for her politeness is considered an attack on the other player? That's just ridiculous. Praising one player doesn't mean hating the other.
Lindsay is 25, and Serena 20. Both adorable young women, so fit, with so much energy and talent. At the peak of their powers. Even at 20, Serena already has phenomenal shoulder and upper back muscles, unequalled among female players, including sister Venus. And, at this young age, her strong thighs give her speed and mobility (but not the grace, agility and beauty of Venus). And she has a beautiful swing and snap of the wrist in her serve. The toss is slow and low, and she hits the ball at its highest point, before the descent, hence when the ball is practically motionless at its apex. Venus does the same too, even better. Too many players toss the ball too fast and too high and lose accuracy in control at the hit point (ex: Sharapova).
@@cmoknijmammee Much better body than most women, a nice smile, and an engaging disposition. Ask her coach or his brother Jonathan Leach, who couldn't miss this opportunity and married her, with enough ardor for her adorable features to produce 4 children. Beats a sad story like Monica Seles, for instance, n'est ce pas? Nicht wahr?
@@roobookaroo 👏👏👏 Well said :) Lindsay my all time fave player, fab commentator too and comes across as a really nice, down to earth genuine lady, love serena too .
One of the commentators here (an Aussie) made a brief observation that he felt the way to play Serena was to get as many balls back as possible. Now, near the end of her career, that turned out to be prescient advice because whatever their style of play, the opponents who just kept putting balls back in the court were the most successful against her.
One of these Aussie commentators said something very prescient, that he felt the way to play Serena was to get as many balls back as possible. In hindsight, if you look back, no matter their style of play, the players she had the toughest time against did exactly that. Trying to hit through her rarely worked.
Serena's physique is astonishing.
21 years after, i'm still cheering for Serena!!! 👏👏👏
Lebron should have married Serena!!
Me too!!!
Same, but... for Davenport. ;)
And the detractors say Serena played against a weak field....unlike M Court? Lol
Tell me about it, they only started mentioning that homophobic and racist pig when Serena won her 19th Slam in 2015.
I think the critiques of her field are much later, like Woz era. But that’s so ridiculous considering that she essentially played three to four different generations. Just because the last one wasn’t as strong as the ones before (at least top 5) doesn’t mean shit. She’s survived all those generations and when she dominated in 2002-3 women’s tennis had never been stronger.
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She the most hardest Era with Davenport and the rest of them... they were some powerful women in tennis
@@JamesFrew1 try to see serena Williams VS wozniaki wta finals semifinal and tell me that was a weak era, i know you cant compare that era with 1999-2008 era but It was not a bad era and wozniaki was not a bad player
My favorite era of women's tennis.
The best era was the late 80s and early 90s with Graf at the top of her game alongside Navratilova, Evert, Seles, Sanchez Vicario, Sabatini, Novotna, Pierce and others.
Dimitri what's the matter with you, you should've been a coach or commentator, for real
@@PravoslavniVitez Grafs era was pathetic. She rarely faced any competition, Everett was on her way out and Navratilova was too. It wasn’t until Monica Seles came along that anyone really challenged Graf. And Seles thumped her good. Right before the “incident “ Seles had started to routinely beat Graf. Serena definitely had more competition than Graf. Name 10 ladies that actually challenge Graf I dare you.
@@PravoslavniVitez you must be really old then.
@@jobuck879 right
And the last shot was the BEST winner in the match.
Serena was so athletic back then. This tournament really was the springboard for her incredible 2002 season, which still in my opinion, contained the most dominant performances by a female tennis player ever.
Not even close.
Serena had a 56-5 record in 2002 (92%) and won 8 titles. In comparison, Steffi Graf had SEVEN seasons with a better win %.
@@PravoslavniVitez who’s steffi?
@@arathgomez615 The greatest female tennis player of all time.
@@PravoslavniVitez if Steffi knows Serena is the greatest and history has shown it .. amazing how you still won't give her due
@@chillguy102 And how would Steffi know that? She won the CYGS, Serena did not. Steffi has more weeks at #1, more YE #1, more titles, higher career win %, a quadruple Career Slam and is the only player to win 6 Slams on each surface. She also had a higher peak than Serena and was more dominant and consistent.
Serena Williams was fire 🔥
Too many adds
Two wonderful players
Serena v Martina SF PLZ
Lindsay could have won way more GS if it wasn’t for Serena and Venus. Her and Serena had some great matches
It is astounding to consider all the future Hall of Famers who were part of this particular generation in women's tennis, mostly making up the Top 10 for a decade. Compare that period to today's Top 10. Yikes!
Honestly kinda the same thing that is happening with men's tennis aswell considering people like jack sock or carreno busta became top 10 players yikes
The ticket sales don’t lie. These women used to get all the seats packed. Even Sharapova’s matches sold much more tickets than any current WTA player. People don’t find any of the the current players that appealing.
Wow they are not selling out ?
Fewer compelling personalities and fewer bankable stars tournaments can count on consistently making deep runs. Things best for marketing and ticket sales.
I agree wholeheartedly the best era of women's tennis
Not yet Serena was still 19.
We call Lindsay Lines for a reason. Hello lady umpire.
Lindsay Davenport had a great game just a poor mindset when she was down.
Yeah similar skill set to Sharapova but her strokes were even more sound and she had variety and was great at the net. It’s really too bad she didn’t have killer instinct because she really was a 5-7 level slam athlete at least.
@@JamesFrew1 Davenport did gave great ground strokes but her movement was piss poor. Especially from side to side. If an opponent tried to go toe to toe with Davenport and didn’t move her around, Lindsay could match them and often out hit them easily. But Serena and Venus would move her around to expose her limited movement.
What a MATCH! I really admire Lindsay's precision & power and simply her attitude at the end of the match. Lindsay apparently respected SERENA'S game and one sees the respect
is mutual. THIS IS REAL TENNIS. SERENA became the BEST by playing the BEST.
Margaret Court was a joke. Lets be real people... tennis in her day ? Really now...
Both Serena and Lindsay were great here. A real roller coaster of a ride.
You’re right. The was the Golden Era when QFs with Hingis, Davenport, Capriati, Seles, the Williams and the Begians were Must-See TV.
Venus vs jennifer plz
Can someone please find serna vs hingis at this usopen 2001....It was.on utube i watch the match about a month 1/2 ago.. and i went to watch the match between hingis vs serna 2001 usopen and it was gone.
I was at this match, in the 2nd row and I saw myself & my friend several times in this video. Serena won and I was a Lindsay fan, but what an amazing match.
Davenport is such a unbelievable great sports person!💪 She is so outstanding polite with best behaviour on court. Without any screams and so on!
yes but why are try dig serena no credit for winning yes she maybe noisy but come on always issues with haters
So what if she is loud do you have a problem when the men are loud
@@nultyjack8219 Why is it that praising a player for her politeness is considered an attack on the other player? That's just ridiculous. Praising one player doesn't mean hating the other.
Lindsay is 25, and Serena 20. Both adorable young women, so fit, with so much energy and talent. At the peak of their powers. Even at 20, Serena already has phenomenal shoulder and upper back muscles, unequalled among female players, including sister Venus. And, at this young age, her strong thighs give her speed and mobility (but not the grace, agility and beauty of Venus). And she has a beautiful swing and snap of the wrist in her serve. The toss is slow and low, and she hits the ball at its highest point, before the descent, hence when the ball is practically motionless at its apex. Venus does the same too, even better. Too many players toss the ball too fast and too high and lose accuracy in control at the hit point (ex: Sharapova).
Lindsay adorable?
Maaaan are u blind
serena was not quite 20 yet until 3 week after this match.
@@cmoknijmammee Much better body than most women, a nice smile, and an engaging disposition. Ask her coach or his brother Jonathan Leach, who couldn't miss this opportunity and married her, with enough ardor for her adorable features to produce 4 children. Beats a sad story like Monica Seles, for instance, n'est ce pas? Nicht wahr?
@@roobookaroo 👏👏👏 Well said :) Lindsay my all time fave player, fab commentator too and comes across as a really nice, down to earth genuine lady, love serena too .
Wimbledon qualifying
7:43
Margaret Court had little competition. It was not open tournaments.
1:46:37 did y’all hear what Serena said 😳
Keep it up Serena? That's what I heard. What did you hear?
@@justincartwright252 oh... I must of heard something different that day lmao
Serena doesn't just beat 'em, she whups 'em! LOL !!
Stop FUCKIN around!!!
Incredible match, just a difference of two points.
0:20 0:58 the commentators laughing
great job!!!!!
One of the commentators here (an Aussie) made a brief observation that he felt the way to play Serena was to get as many balls back as possible. Now, near the end of her career, that turned out to be prescient advice because whatever their style of play, the opponents who just kept putting balls back in the court were the most successful against her.
Which means she mostly lost to "pushers" who happened to have a good day pushing.
She still did beat those
I think that you are mixing up Serena with Maria Sharapova whose game never had any finese
True. Thats what halep did in 2019 at wimbledon. She just kept getting the ball back.
Lol. Bill Murray related to Andy Murray.
One of these Aussie commentators said something very prescient, that he felt the way to play Serena was to get as many balls back as possible. In hindsight, if you look back, no matter their style of play, the players she had the toughest time against did exactly that. Trying to hit through her rarely worked.
Lol at the 3rd set. Somebody looked very warn out. A very good match to watch.
"Warn" out??
@@michasobiech2671 yes warn out that's how I spelled it
@@MrCySy Why?
@@michasobiech2671 just so I can get a response from you
It’s hard to believe but Lindsay Davenport and Martina Hingis were done winning majors at this point. Whereas Williams would win 22 more.
Lol at 1:42:38 Lindsay didn’t even bother
What are fly ants?????
Should i be lead to believe that these two belong to same species? Davenport looks like Serena's maid...