Re: Federer serve speed question...

"VinB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > No I don't.  Let's look at the 2 FO finals she lost :
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> Look at 89 FO semi, Seles's *first* slam and Graf undeniably in the best
> form of her career. This was just few weeks prior to Graf thrashing Seles
on
> grass but look what happens on clay. A tight 3 set win for Graf.
> This was peak Graf against new comes Seles.

Good point.

It's pretty obvious - Graf's rep as 'best ever' over MN largely rests on
their respective FO records: Graf has 6 while MN has 2. But Graf only had 2
FO titles as of the spring of 1993, and since she hadn't won the French in
*5* years at that point, it sure looked like she'd never win another. It's
obvious that Seles - who had won the FO three straight times before getting
stabbed, owned that event and that Graf's chances of ever winning it again
were somewhere between 'slim' and 'none'.

Yet from the Seles stabbing onwards, she won 4 more French titles even
though she wasn't as good a player as she had been before then.  That
allowed her to pass MN as 'best ever' as well.

The stabbing accomplished exactly what the GraFan nutcase hoped it would -
it returned Steffi to #1 on the computer, and eventually led to Steffi
having the best career singles record ever - #1 all time...


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