Every former pro notes how the women's game of today is a lot more physical than it was 20 years ago.
Davenport played in Serena's era. She’s nowhere as fit as the Graf or the Chris, but played a total of 947 matches(Serena only 575).
Every former pro notes how the women's game of today is a lot more physical than it was 20 years ago.
If Serena was fit for the game, she would have a durable career, not up and down due to injury. Serena had multiple surgeries, skipped/withdrew many tournaments. Her weight was killing her knee! Had she was half as fit as Chris Evert, no question she would have been more accomplished.
You cannot escape from gravity.
Serena has been a pro from the age of 14 until 29, winning slam titles from the age of 17 to 28. And you're saying she has not had a "durable career"? WTF?
Meanwhile featherweights like Henin retired at 26 (and retired again due to injury despite having no body fat). All of her other peers have left the game one way or another. Injuries happen regardless of a player's fitness level.
Serena has 13 major singles titles!! And you're saying her career "sucked" because she was overweight? Anyone on tour would give up a vital organ to have the career Serena has had.
Serena has been a pro from the age of 14 until 29, winning slam titles from the age of 17 to 28. And you're saying she has not had a "durable career"? WTF?
Meanwhile featherweights like Henin retired at 26 (and retired again due to injury despite having no body fat). All of her other peers have left the game one way or another. Injuries happen regardless of a player's fitness level.
And so have you, LDV.How durable was Serena when compared to Graf? Not very, not even close. The difference is Serena's body type and fitness level. TMF has made a good argument.
Well, that she's not typical has also been used to argue the other way (by herself among others if I'm correct) that she will last longer than current and/or past players of similar age&experience.http://espn.go.com/sports/tennis/blog/_/name/bodo_peter/id/6214885
"Serena is closing on the age of 30, and her career-long susceptibility to injury has only increased. That she doesn't have a "typical" tennis player's physique probably doesn't help her cause. If you were in charge of long-term planning for the WTA tour, would you factor Serena into your strategy?"
Last month she suffered a pulmonary embolism, or blood clot, that traveled from her leg to her lungs. She then was hospitalized to remove a hematoma from her stomach that grew to the size of a grapefruit.
She said she spent 10 weeks in a cast and almost 10 weeks in a walking boot and wore a tube and drainage bag for a week after her hematoma surgery.
Williams, who remains on blood thinners, said that doctors told her a part of her lung had "died" from the pulmonary embolism. She will have another cat scan in about three weeks to see if the clots are melting.
"I think Serena is the best player out there, and I think just as a tennis player and a tennis fan, I do miss her," said second-ranked Kim Clisters of Belgium
Jesus freakin ChristHee. But I guess she doesn't miss her as a person, just as a player? Ha ha. Total backhanded compliment. Well played Kim!"I think Serena is the best player out there, and I think just as a tennis player and a tennis fan, I do miss her," said second-ranked Kim Clisters of Belgium
Jesus freakin Christ
Nowhere is there a backhand complement at all. In fact it's the opposite. There is an unspoken compliment there.
Kim explicitly uses the phrase "just as". That implies the unspoken but evident opinion that that she ALSO misses her as something other than a tennis player.
You know American education is really low when a non-native starts to comprehend the language better than the native.
I think the very fact that Serena fluctuates is an indication of a certain body type and physiology. You don't even have to pin point which exact weight the "normal one" is.That's not all muscle! Serena is a big-boned girl who carries more weight than is ideal for a top tennis player.
Just look at these clips of her training. This is the real Serena Williams, not the one in those photoshopped pictures:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP4eU-vaOhw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKCXZjoZWeM
Some of you really need to get out of your houses and see what these pros really look like. Some of them are amazing physical specimens. Some of them are ... [fill in the blank].
Hey, clueless. Everyone got the joke except you. I don’t know if the your state of mental health that blinded you, but like they say... "A lack of sense of humor is directly related to a lower self esteem"
LOL. I wasn’t expecting to get an answer from you. It was to point out how stupid it is to claim something that you don’t know about me. You never visited a doctor, so that must be true that I never visit a doctor either.
You are a strange character.
You are a habitual liar, so no one will ever believe your fake doctor yarn. Since your reason for even posting at TW is to attack members and the Williams family, it was rather easy to reach the conclusion that you (the liar) will invent pure BS (the "doctor") in order to support yet another attack on Serena Williams. It is the reason others in this thread have called you out on your motives.
So, dream up more fake doctors supporting your woeful ignorance of basic human physiology if you want, but to this day, you have failed to sell any sane mind that your ranting is even within a country mile of fact.
Yikes.