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Thanks for your input. I am actually kind of impressed with replies. I honestly expected a lot worse. I don't think I need to filter it a lot :) But I would disagree with you on the usefulness of this. As I sad, she has access to formal statistics and such and she will obviously put more...

She picked that topic herself, but the teacher helped to expand it a bit. Don't worry, I knew what to expect from this board :) While I don't post a lot, I read it quit often. We needed diverse opinions. She would read a lot of sports writers, she checked out some books form the library, we...

She likes playing tennis, but she is not like me who loves the game in general. She liked Sharapova at some point of time, but mostly probably because Sharapova is also Russian and my daughter has always been teased by adults as being next Sharapova :) She is old enough now to understand and...

Pc1, I think she can write this to the teacher as long as she can make reasonable arguments for it. So let's keep this conversation going in different direction and she can make her own conclusions. I probably would need to help her whith all these information though :)

Thank you too and i totally agree with you. Would love to have more input like this. As I asked before, why do you think people still talk about it? Is it just peole of these boards? Or media just needs something to talk about? Why can't we accept that there is not such thing as "the greatest".

Thanks for your input, very much appreciated. I agree with you on that one, But as we know, it is not the case. During any tv broadcast, women are almost never mentioned in that discussion and Federer, for example, is always mentioned as the gratest "player", and not "the greatest male player"...

Very good links; thanks a lot. Will definitely even read it myself.

I agree with you that it is very irrelevant topic and i personally don't care about it as well, as I just said above, but why do you think people talk about it so much, what fuels that discussion, fans, media? Do you think mentioned players care about their status?

I can neither prove it nor disprove it, but why do you think I could not just ask this question directly and covering it with "my daughter's project". She is reading these posts with me and i wanted people to keep it civilized, and I though it would serve as a good reminder if i mention it. I am...

Dechizen, what is your opinion on women's slams and why do you think they are not taken seriously when talked about the greatest status? I admit that the reasons why my daughter picked this topic is that she wanted to know why people do not consider women in the greatest player discussion. She...

So do we simply take the slam numbers and make this conclusion? But what about women, say Court of Graf with more slams? What about old timers who were not allowed to play in slams? Numbers are easy, but we think there is more to it than just numbers.

Thank you, Dechizen. What do you think makes Federer the greatest as of now, number of slams, his style, his domination or/and something else. Thanks

Again, we simple wanted our poll to be gender neutral, so we put 4 male players and 4 female players. So we put our list just to start the discussion; again, nothing against Nadal or anybody else.

Guys, it is very important for us to know why you selected any particular person. So please write a couple of sentences about the reasons for your selection. And again, please do not get offended if you don't see any particular player, as it seems to be the case with Nadal. We did not put him...

Thank you,it is really that simple to figure this out; but not "her", his :)

No Nadal simple because we can't put everybody on that poll and we wanted to cover both genders and longer time period. If you think Nadal is the greatest, simply say it and the reasons you think so. Thank you.

Hi, My 10 year old daughter is doing a school personal interest project and she decided to determine who the greatest player of all time is and why. So the question is: who do you think the greatest player (male or female) of all time is and what (personal qualities, style of play or...

Thank you. I guess price is not an issue at this point of time since she has not broken a string yet in 5 years of playing; she hits pretty flat still and power is not that great yet. Tension loss over time might be a factor, but at 53lb I don't see us cutting strings often either. I will...

My 10 year old daughter is very decent tennis player. Very tall for her age, about 5'2". She recently got new full size racket, Babolat Drive Z Lite, and coach recommended to get 18 gauge any brand, elastic, soft strings at 52-53 lb. I ask a local stringer to put whatever he thinks fits the...