What can I say? :o

6-1 6-2 to Serena says a lot of things about the way the match was didn't it?

Serena played her best tennis of the tournament in the final, so full credit to her for that, but at the same time Maria totally froze :(. The serve was all over the place, I was amazed, she was like a zombie out there!

I said a few days back that if Serena won this tournament on so little pactise over the last two years, the achievment would confirm her as a great, and I see no reason to think otherwise now.

Let's hope, though, for her sake, that she actually gives this year a proper go now, get her ranking back in the top ten, and see how she fares at the top again. I'm not discrediting that scoreline, but I doubt everyone will freeze against her every time! I'd love to see how the Justine, Amelie and Maria of now would fare against her (providing they didn't freeze every time!).

Well to be honest if she plays like that everytime the Amelie, Maria and Justine of now aren't going to be able to do much.

Of course I highly doubt she will play like that everytime. But I also wouldn't say that Maria totally froze, she was still in there fighting, it was only her serve really that let her down a bit.

I knew you'd defend Maria roflmao

she did freeze, no doubt, a huge shame for the final to be honest.

Serena played pretty well, but wasn't really under any pressure at any stage because Maria never got going. Some of that was down to Serena, but most of it was because Maria looked exceptionally nervous!


I mean what I said about Serena though - this win is one of the defining moments of her career, has shades of the golfer Jack Nicklaus!

Well we all know it's one the defining moments of her career, but let's be honest the final was about Serena not Maria. It was because Serena played so well; Maria didn't have a chance to get in the match :D

To be honest I don't think anyone needs defending :shrug: Both have acquitted themselves excellently in this tournie, as I never thought Maria would reach the final to be honest (not that I thought Serena would either mind), but Serena just overpowered Maria...

What i'm saying is that due to Maria's shocking spluttering start, she lost all the initiative in the final, which Serena took. Momentum is a very hard thing to snatch back, Maria had lost all of it!

There was no pressure really applied to Serena in the final, not on the court of the scoreboard. Serena deserves credit for the way she played, which was a factor, but Maria couldn't get going properly, chained up by nerves and perhaps unsure of how to play Serena having not seen her for a while!

Lets face it, sharapova simply paid back heavily for her fluke wimbledon trophy, which she seems to have fed off for the past 4 years. The person who gave it to her has simply taught her a lesson or 2.

My take is, Pottypova was way too confident before the match and was running her gob like jankovic and tiger serena who had suddenly gained fitness was calmly waiting for her skinny backside. When pova asked serena to serve, serena brought out the heavy duty goods and when it was time to produce pova was producing stale goods. Obviously, Serena noticed chokepova who is maria cousin turned up and therefore decided to whallop her.

After this pottypova is going to show respect for the williams like everyone else does, of course, apart from Justine who is on about the same league as williams in that fashion and I dont mean beauty wise (hahaha)

Hopefully all those talented Russians(or where ever they are from) i.e. chakvetadze, Ivanovic, safarova and all the other va's will now take control and stop giving the match to the overgrown Russian.

This is scary but Sharapova actually looked very pretty when all her icy edge had gone in the trophy presentation. She actually looked 19 for the first time ever.

whatever chairman roflmao

You remind me of that weird Marsha person on the teletext 'your view' letters page roflmao

Just as Venus took Sharapova, the then reigning champion, out in the semi-finals of the 2005 Wimbledon with a display of quite ferocious hitting, so Serena disposed of the US-based Russian in brutal fashion. Sharapova, the nominal world No1 and schoolyard bully against most other women, was reduced to a quivering wreck. When she won her second slam title in New York last year there were intimations of maturity and variations, but faced with Serena's cudgel she reverted to type. There were no slices, no drop-shots, few angles, and if she did not go down with a whimper the banshee wails were of no consequence or help.



http://sport.guardian.co.uk/australianopen...2000986,00.html

There was nothing from Maria - she was trapped by nerves, whereas Serena hit the ground running, this has already been said!

However a match when both are firing, where one doesn't get an early seize on the initiative over the other, is the match that will be quite something. Theres been two slam finals between the pair now - you could quite possibly say it's one choke/freeze each ;)

I thought I was the only one who saw sharapova as a bully. It turns out the whole world knows

What a first class c**k! I can't believe the Gaurdian actually pay that guy to write that drivel!! He sounds like on of the old BEEB trolls!

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What does that say about the Guardian!

Sadly there are very few high-quality newspaper tennis reporters :(

I bought the damn thing earlier too to read in my Lunch hour.. I have just looked through it and they have put the same story in the paper. Muppets.

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I was wondering if it was 55mediter55 but I know he doesn't like womens tennis, so my only thought is, it is definately SW19 because if it was me i'll just say it.

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So is it your new loo roll roflmao

The guy has to be sacked roflmao

I know what a pathetic, shallow article. You can't even call it journalism. A bunch of gibbering baboons, randomly pressing keys on a keyboard could have written a more mindful article.

Me :o

Excuse me I did A Level English and clearly whoever wrote THAT article didn't get past key stage 1 roflmao

What grade did ya get SW19? :D

I did it too, enjoyed it actually, mind it amazed me how many 'thickos' were in our group roflmao :rolleyes:

Got an A :D

Ye some people were doing it who didn't get very good GCSE grades; so they said things like: this poem is very sad, this line is short, I think Jane Austen was a bit prude roflmao

roflmao it frightens me to think what some of the people in our class wrote in the exams - especially in our Othello exam, they can't read modern english, so what chance had they got with Shakespeare? roflmao

I'm an A-man too, nearly did english as my degree but decided maths might get me more money long-term roflmao

Serena didnt have to dance with ugly Roger.

How exactly is the watch dude related to Serena, he is abit young for her to be humping thats for sure.

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Sam, you should relax, at least Roger won. Who knows Sharapova may win birmingham. roflmao roflmao roflmao

She will, in her unbeaten grass run this season :P