clout
Hall of Fame
I know the Meldonium scandal is a black cloud over her career, but Meldonium actually isn't a PED and wasn’t officially a banned substance for about 99% of the time she was using it so I don't think it warrants the same "disgrace" that the likes of Lance Armstrong, Ben Johnson, Barry Bonds, and Roger Clemens fall under. With that aside, she's now 32, can't stay healthy, and has plummeted down the rankings with no rise in sight.
However, she does own 5 majors (10 finals, 20 semis and 197 match wins), career grand slam, 36 overall titles, 14 Masters titles, 1 WTF, Olympic silver medal, career win percentage of 80%, 98 wins over top 10 players, 272 wins over players who've been in the top 10, 21 weeks at number one, and is the only player besides Graf, Navratilova, and Evert to win at least 1 title in 13 straight seasons. Biggest knock on her is that she never finished any year at number one, and she didn't really have the peak or consistency that other players her level had (i.e. she never defended a title or won multiple slams in a single season).
In OE, I'd rank Steffi, Serena, Navratilova, Evert, Seles, Court, King, Henin, Venus, Hingis and Goolagong over her. It's a toss up between her, Davenport, and Clijsters so she's probably somewhere 12-14 (I have her solidly ahead of players like Vicario and Mandlikova)
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However, she does own 5 majors (10 finals, 20 semis and 197 match wins), career grand slam, 36 overall titles, 14 Masters titles, 1 WTF, Olympic silver medal, career win percentage of 80%, 98 wins over top 10 players, 272 wins over players who've been in the top 10, 21 weeks at number one, and is the only player besides Graf, Navratilova, and Evert to win at least 1 title in 13 straight seasons. Biggest knock on her is that she never finished any year at number one, and she didn't really have the peak or consistency that other players her level had (i.e. she never defended a title or won multiple slams in a single season).
In OE, I'd rank Steffi, Serena, Navratilova, Evert, Seles, Court, King, Henin, Venus, Hingis and Goolagong over her. It's a toss up between her, Davenport, and Clijsters so she's probably somewhere 12-14 (I have her solidly ahead of players like Vicario and Mandlikova)
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