I know Serena's fitness has got better and is improving certainly since US Open 06 but I think she has someway to go.

Alot of people on WTAW upon the sight of her training pics at RG were heralding her 02 shape again.

Personally I don't think she's even in the shape of 04-05 Miami let alone her wonder years 02-03. If you look in the picture thread at any of her major wins from 02-03 even FO she looks absolutely slim yet muscly and fit.

Thoughts?

Well I think she has gotten rid of MOST of the excess fat now, she just needs to tone up a bit. Hopefully an agressive Wimbledon to U.S Open season should do the trick. Im sure Serena trains a lot, but there's no subustitute for matches for getting to the peak of your fitness. I think she's in much better shape now than she was for AO 05 for example, not quite at 2002-2003 levels yet, but I think she's in better shape than in 2004 purely on the basis that she's not carrying a serious injury! I think she will get faster as she plays more as well.

If you look at my sig, really there isn't that much difference between the legs of Serena at Wimbledon 2002 to the legs of the one that will play Wimbledon 2007 other than the fact they're more toned and a little slimmer in 2002.

See I think she does have the core strength and has lost some of the excess fat but in your picture thing her face looks so much slimmer more than anything.

Well she was a 20 year old goddess there :wub:

Now she's getting old and her mortality is showing :(

Like I said though I expect by the USO she'll be ready to wear the catsuit again ;)

I must say SerenaW19 that signature pic of Serena is quite hot.Her on the grass and she looks much slimmer there.Really nice!

She still has a few pounds to lose, but i reckon by Wimbledon she'll be fine.
I liked it that she was really pissed off after losing to Justine too, that shows she's hungry to be back at the top-it means she's probably training hard shifting the excess poundage-if she had she smiled and shrugged her shoulders that would have been more of a worry in terms of her Wimbledon success!

Serena at her best ever level of fitness: :wub:

She was magnificent that tournament, as dominant as I have ever seen anyone, incl. the likes of Navratilova/Graf etc. Her serve didn't get broken once from the 4r-SF. Then Venus showed up in the final and spoiled the run :angry:

Venus is the only player who can read that serve, she's seen it her whole life :lol:

Serena was so pumped up in the final, i remember this running backhand pass she hit with this almighty grunt :o

Venus was like :hide: :bow: