Re: Federer serve speed question...

"Whisper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> "Steve Jaros" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > "VinB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > > > No I don't.  Let's look at the 2 FO finals she lost :
> > > >
> > >
> > > 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.
> 
> MN only has an advantage in Wimbledon titles - Graf leads in every other
> category; more FO, USO & AO, more yrs No.1, calendar slam, & retired many
> yrs younger than MN.....  Graf probably woulda won > Wimbledons too if she
> kept playing & didn't miss 2 yrs due to injury...
> 
> 
> 
> 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'.
> 
> Look at her final losses in '89, '90 & '92 & you'll realise you're sadly
> mistaken.... ; )
> 
> 
> 
> >
> > 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.
> 
> It's not Graf's fault MN lost more slam finals than she shoulda...
> 
> 
> >
> > 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...
> >
> 
> 
> I think the stabbing cost Graf at least 1 slam, but like your opinion it's
> all speculation...

So you're saying the net effect of the stabbing is one *less* slam for
Graf.  LOL!!!!