Do you think Donald Young will be able to win outside the US? Hope he can sort things out and maybe make a glittering display in front of the home crowd.
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22 Ağustos 2012 Çarşamba
6 Ağustos 2012 Pazartesi
Olympic Winners
Hail for Murray and Serena!
Both had sensational wins in their golden final matches defeating their opponents in straight sets and never giving them the upper hand throughout the whole match.
To begin with, Serena showed once again her capabilities, how she is capable of dominating women's tennis both in singles and doubles, collecting golds in both events and also having collected championship trophies in Wimbledon last month, despite the staggering form of her older sister Venus. In Olympics, she just lost 4 games in singles semi-final and final matches to the switching world no.1's Azarenka and Sharapova, which is probably an unparalleled performance. She has beaten Azarenka 6-0, 6-3 and Sharapova 6-0, 6-1 in the final. This is such an incomprehensible number, so you don't have to get into details, how she won or what she did better then her opponents. She surpassed all her opponents leading nearly in all statistics of these matches.
I'm not going to get into details, but there is something worth mentioning that Serena has the best serve among today's players and allegedly is all time best server, and in addition to that she has a no worse return then Sharapova or Azarenka, who are the two of the best returners today. These serving and returning skills give her an edge in the beginning of all points she plays, both in serving and returning games. For example, despite having a very good serve, Federer has never been a good returner or neither Nadal or Djokovic do have dominant serves but very damaging returns. (All these players have many different attributes which cannot be dealt with in these lines with a few sentences, this is just a small remark.) I think possessing both superior returning and serving skills partly explains how she can beat these top players with losing very few games even a single game, when she is in top form.
Another important aspect is that being 31 years old, she does not show any signs of loss of sharpness or physical power, maybe because she simply does not have a declining profile or because there is no one to force her to the limits. ALthough Azarenka, Sharapova and even Kvitova and Radwanska are far better players than the former no.1's of Women's tennis like Safina, Jankovic or Ivanovic, they couldn't put up a strong resistance against her, in the course of one and half years after the come back of the Williams. Her only loss in a final match since her last comeback came from the hands of Sam Stosur in US Open. That was one in a million performance from Sam, she was firing from everywhere on the court and crushed Serena, as Serena had been doing the others in tat tournament.
I wanted to draw a comparison between the performance of Serena Williams after her comeback in year 2011 and that of her in year 2002, 2003 where she started to dominate women's tennis and rised to world no.1 for the first time in her career. If you exclude her two losses in her first five matches in the summer of 2011, which is excusable for someone who survived after a lethal illness, then you are left with a win/loss raito of 66-3. Moreover, she beat the top ten players in all recent encounters except for Sam in USO final. Acknowledging that the player profile has been detoriated in the last decade, it is unfair to blame today's players for Serena's success.
Both Serena and Venus won 4 gold medals who hold the record in gold medals in Olympics tennis and are short of one medal compared to the record holder in total medal count, Kathleen Mckane Godfree, who has 1 gold 2 silver and 2 bronze medals.
I feel lucky to be able to watch Serena for years and also looking forward to see her play against a tough opponent who can relentlessly counter her shots. Azarenka and Kvitova are still young players who have room ro improve themselves and who have the talent to do so.
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| 4 Golds of Serena Left top: Sydney doubles 2000 - Right top: Beijing Doubles 2008 - Left Bottom: London Doubles 2012 - Right Bottom: London Singles 2012 |
Both had sensational wins in their golden final matches defeating their opponents in straight sets and never giving them the upper hand throughout the whole match.
To begin with, Serena showed once again her capabilities, how she is capable of dominating women's tennis both in singles and doubles, collecting golds in both events and also having collected championship trophies in Wimbledon last month, despite the staggering form of her older sister Venus. In Olympics, she just lost 4 games in singles semi-final and final matches to the switching world no.1's Azarenka and Sharapova, which is probably an unparalleled performance. She has beaten Azarenka 6-0, 6-3 and Sharapova 6-0, 6-1 in the final. This is such an incomprehensible number, so you don't have to get into details, how she won or what she did better then her opponents. She surpassed all her opponents leading nearly in all statistics of these matches.
I'm not going to get into details, but there is something worth mentioning that Serena has the best serve among today's players and allegedly is all time best server, and in addition to that she has a no worse return then Sharapova or Azarenka, who are the two of the best returners today. These serving and returning skills give her an edge in the beginning of all points she plays, both in serving and returning games. For example, despite having a very good serve, Federer has never been a good returner or neither Nadal or Djokovic do have dominant serves but very damaging returns. (All these players have many different attributes which cannot be dealt with in these lines with a few sentences, this is just a small remark.) I think possessing both superior returning and serving skills partly explains how she can beat these top players with losing very few games even a single game, when she is in top form.
Another important aspect is that being 31 years old, she does not show any signs of loss of sharpness or physical power, maybe because she simply does not have a declining profile or because there is no one to force her to the limits. ALthough Azarenka, Sharapova and even Kvitova and Radwanska are far better players than the former no.1's of Women's tennis like Safina, Jankovic or Ivanovic, they couldn't put up a strong resistance against her, in the course of one and half years after the come back of the Williams. Her only loss in a final match since her last comeback came from the hands of Sam Stosur in US Open. That was one in a million performance from Sam, she was firing from everywhere on the court and crushed Serena, as Serena had been doing the others in tat tournament.
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| Comparison of Serena's performance after her lung injury and in her first golden era |
Both Serena and Venus won 4 gold medals who hold the record in gold medals in Olympics tennis and are short of one medal compared to the record holder in total medal count, Kathleen Mckane Godfree, who has 1 gold 2 silver and 2 bronze medals.
I feel lucky to be able to watch Serena for years and also looking forward to see her play against a tough opponent who can relentlessly counter her shots. Azarenka and Kvitova are still young players who have room ro improve themselves and who have the talent to do so.
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