Oh yeah!! She's already been replaced with a hot blonde anyway!! That's why! She wants to be the hottest blonde in tennis! I can't remember her name but I've seen her in commercials and ads. Ha!
Irish Gal, the "hot blonde" won a major championship last year, and since you can't remember her name, maybe you might have thought about not going there. I'm not telling you not to, but OTOH I don't go into NBA threads and comment on that team that won the NBA championship last year whose name I can't remember. (they sure were hot, though. and blond.)
Oh she was hardly a terrible tennis player. She was simply accorded more coverage than her results seemed to demand (but not her sexiness - day-yam)- let's not pretend she wasn't a top-ten, top-twenty talent for pretty much her entire career. There does appear to be a bit of a vaccuum right now in Women's Tennis - outside of Venus, Sharapova and Justine Henin-Hardenne, there really is a lot of room for competition. It's not beyond her - provided she's actually spent some time practicing her backhand, and not her 3/4 profile shot.
There does appear to be a bit of a vaccuum right now in Women's Tennis - outside of Venus, Sharapova and Justine Henin-Hardenne, there really is a lot of room for competition. And Clijsters, and Mauresmo, and Davenport, and Pierce, and...
You're right, Davenport deserves more regard, and Clijsters, too. Okay - there are a lot of good women tennis players right now, not a lot of dominance by one. Maybe that's what I mean.
Agreed on that, Weedy -- with the right number of good players in the mix, they can knock each other off, largely. It's not like you've got two really strong players on opposite sides of the brackets -- the way things are now, you don't know who you might face in the final, and the women on that list have very different games. Can't wait for 2006!!!
Nobody's hotter than Sharapova. However, she looked at Hingis, and will now return. Tennis needs Hingis, not Anna.
Where are the damn pics?!
Kournikova isn't as much of a joke in pro tennis as people make her out to be. I don't think being in the top ten in the world in anything is a joke. However, she's gotten more attention than an equal player of her level could ever hope for. Not her fault. But there's a common thought that if she had paid more attention to her tennis and less to 'other' things she could have been number one. Considering those opinions come from tennis insiders and former coaches I'd say they have at least a bit of validity.
That's right if she spent more time winning matches and not flashing her bling to reporters and having billboards made of her posing in sports bras she could have been considered. But Anna never intended to be a real tennis star she just wanted to show everyone how pretty and sexy she was, make a lot of money on promoting. Tennis was not her number one priority. Maria is more talented and much more level headed. She is in commercials and she still can find the time and motivation to win a major. And at her age. Anna could never do it, she was way too immature running around with Sergi and Pavel. Remember when everyone started calling Daniela Hantuchova the next Anna? She hasn't done squat.
