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I disagree, I think Querrey was quite patient with her considering her antics. Sure anyone can get a bit rowdy sometimes, but when it comes to the point where everyone in the crowd is reacting to it, it goes beyond the point of reasonableness.

I was at the final of Nottingham yesterday and was sitting quite close to her. After EVERY single point she was loudly shouting things to him like "good serve Dennis!!!!" and "come on Dennis get back to deuce!!!", to the point where everyone in the crowd was either laughing or annoyed. At one...

I think he could have given him some problems but not enough to beat him.

I assume (s)he means Henin retiring in the 2006 AO final.

So what if she did cheat? That doesn't automatically make her a bad person and there are two sides to every story.

On the day of the stabbing... Graf 11 majors (3 Australian, 2 French, 4 Wimbledons, 2 US), Seles 8 (3 Australian, 3 French, 0 Wimbledon, 2 US) Graf had won 6 of their 10 matches. That's reality, rather than conveniently choosing 'the prior three years'.

Venus has a winning record (7-2) against Henin but a losing record against Hingis, 10-11.

I vote for the 90s but I think saying women's tennis post 2003 has been poor, while mainly accurate, is overlooking some good years. Circa 2005 you had players like Davenport, Henin, Mauresmo, Clijsters, Venus, Serena (admittedly not playing consistently well), Myskina, Pierce, Sharapova etc...

I think this will be similar to the 2008 US Open final. Serena will be made to work but will probably end up winning in straight sets. Radwanska lacks a real killer weapon to beat Serena on this stage. If Serena has a bad day, however, she may be able to capitalise.

So you met a few idiots and now all UK fans are a disgrace? Come on now. I'm not excusing their behaviour but don't tar us all with the same brush. Anyway, my personal perspective is that I'm not going to support someone just because they're from the same country as me. Why should I? It's not...

Radwanska didn't really do anything wrong, Kuznetsova was just on another planet today. If she plays like that for the rest of the tournament she'll win it. But knowing her, she'll probably crash out in the next round.

Jankovic loses her second round match against Lepchenko (who?). She just doesn't have the desire she used to. I remember back when she was always smiling on the court, now she always looks fed up.

Bagels don't seem as common nowadays. I'm guessing because all the girls hit the ball so hard it's usually enough to bag them at least a couple of games. Or they're all so mentally fragile they can't hold onto a lead...

Sharapova? She is in no way a contender. Clijsters should be on the list before her.

I wouldn't say Serena is 'much better' than Graf on rebound ace. Rebound ace is probably Graf's weakest surface (although she was still solid on it) but she still won 4 Australian Open titles. And look at the 1994 Australian final to see what she could do on it. I would say Graf is better than...

Well, my point was that I don't think Seles was going to win the enormous amount of US Open titles that many automatically hand to her. Therefore with just 2 US Opens I really don't think she can be the hard court GOAT, given that Graf has 5 of them, plus the same amount of Australians.

The only hard court that Seles beat Graf on was rebound ace, the slowest of the lot. Graf's slice backhand didn't stay as low on that surface which enabled Seles to attack it more. That's most likely why Seles only ever beat Graf on clay and rebound ace. Although Serena is not as good a player...

Seles is a contender for the rebound ace GOAT, but hardcourt as a whole she is not. 2 US Opens are not enough. And while her age let her get away with a lot, in her later years her inferior athleticism would have caught up with her, especially on faster surfaces with or without the stabbing (as...

I voted for Steffi Graf. She has the highest winning percentage on hardcourts in history, and a record 9 majors on hardcourts. I know she had more opportunity to play on the surface than players in previous generations but watching her play I believe she is the greatest.

Sure, it might have been 'nice' for Capriati to give Serena the contested points, but at the end of the day women's tennis isn't a sorority. And anyway, Capriati may not have been 100% sure herself, or even if she was, it wasn't her job to correct bad calls. Blame the umpire, blame the linesmen...

That is pretty shocking. And sad.

Well, so is Anna Kournikova but I'm not sure she deserves entry.

I agree. Despite the bad rap she gets on these boards, you don't win three majors and bag the top ranking by accident.

Thoughts? There are players with lesser achievements already there so I don't think her place can really be disputed, even though she is dismissed as extremely lucky by a lot of posters. Career summary at the majors: Australian Open: Winner (2001, 2002) French Open: Winner (2001) Wimbledon...

He's certainly good enough on clay to win it. He'll bag at least one I think.

Care to name a few?

What a beauty :) You can't know when it will be and you can't stop it. Maybe you have a couple of years left, or maybe she still has half her live left. Just appreciate whatever it is :)

Probably best to take him to the vet just to be sure... :neutral:

Thanks for your concern, Woodrow. :) Well, her breed would be expected to live a couple of years longer but as I said, she had a stroke which can happen at any age I guess. But like I said, she didn't suffer. I'd rather she died painlessly at age 10 than die in agony at age 12. She's going...

Thanks for the kind words everyone, much appreciated. And yes, it's very hard, a dog of course becomes just as important a family member as everyone else. Because her death was unexpected, I was very shocked at first but now it's sunk in, it's just very very sad.