Reality check. Henin only outplayed Serena in the 1st set. Serena had been outplaying Henin throughout the 2nd and 3rd sets until that hand at 4-2, 30-0 Serena serving. With Serenas serve up 30-0 it seemed clear she was on her way to holding for a 5-2 lead before the hand. Pretty unlikely Henin is going to come back from 5-2 down to beat Serena, especialy with her own shaky serve and Serena outplaying her for almost 2 full sets at that point. Yes given the time around that hand came on it was Henins only prayer to stay in the match, to get Serena rattled and prevent her a first serve.
seems, likely, words that have absolutely no concrete proof. Serena could just as easily be faulted for allowing one controlled instance to completely ruin her game, much like that swinging volley that one could argue kept Hantuchova from the 2008 Australian Open final against Ivanovic, stuff happens, a great champion needs to persevere over that stuff.
She did not struggle vs Zvonareva. She lost a set but won the last 2 sets 6-1, 6-0. Some struggle, LOL! As for Capriati, Serena made 81 unforced errors and still beat the defending French Open Champion.
She really should not have needed 3 sets to beat Zvonareva in that match, the fact that she needed 3 sets was very telling considering Zvonareva was a wildcard or something not even in the top 100. Granted Zvonareva was playing well, but even in the last 2 sets Serena was struggling to put a lot of points past her, just because it was 6-1 6-0 doesn't mean it was extremely easy.
Kuznetsova had match point vs Henin. She made an easy unforced error. One good point and she has won the match and Henin is out of the French Open. Regardless if you think Sharapova or Kuznetsova can win the French Open one of them probably does as Petrova is owned by both players even on clay, and Pierce wouldnt beat anyone the way she played that final.
Yes and players never save match points and go onto win a match? It happens, guess what she didn't get the good point and didn't win the match, thats just like saying if so and so had converted all their break points with a winner instead of an error or losing it to a winner they would have won, in the end its a coulda woulda and they didn't, they still lost. She didn't hit a winner and didn't with the match, much like Davenport didn't win convert her one championship point @ Wimbledon in 2005, does that mean we just throw out Venus's win Because Lindsay had a championship point, sorry not thats not how things work.
Kuznetsova did not choke vs Serena at the Australian Open. Serena stepped it up and took it away from her. Notice how everyone keeps saying so and so choked vs Serena. When someone comes back and wins that often it is more than coincidence. Serena simply raises her game and takes matches away from opponents on the brink of victory and did again vs Kuznetsova at the Australian Open.
Kuznetsova was playing phenominal tennis up until serving for the match, gags horribly and than gets clobbered in the next set. When you are playing great tennis and then all of a sudden your level plummets as much as hers did in that match its called choking, just because it doesn't make your favorite look as good to say it doesn't make it so. As for That Australian, Serena likely never gets passed the 4th rd if Azarenka isn't taken ill, Dementieva and Safina both gagged horribly to, most people think so actually.
Serenas best beats Justines best on clay or any other surface everytime. Mary Joe Fernandez even said that when Justine and Serena play the match is in Serenas hands. Serenas best is too good for Justine, and she said that before a French Open match so that applies to clay too. That was Serenas match to win or lose, as are all her matches vs Justine and she gave it away.
Serena was losing matches on Clay to Justine as early as 2001 way before Justine was even in her prime and Serena was already a grand slam champion., Justine has currently a 4-1 clay h2h with Serena or something like that, seems Justine is actually better on clay than Serena. You can say its because Serena isn't fit, had a bad day, or whatever, well to bad for Serena actually, it happens.
Fact is Serena had that match vs Kuznetsova. She gave it away, Kuznetsova did not win it. The French was Serenas to take and she blew it more than anything else winning it. The end.
Much like Kuznetsova gave up the Australian QF against Serena, Capriati gave up the 2002 French open Semi against Serena, at the end of the day gave it away, choking, getting injured and retiring still = losing.
Your ignorance is astonishing
This coming from Somebody who thinks Venus is a top 3 player all time...sorry but I don't really find your gauge very accurate.
