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Gerry Storch

Williams sisters showed once again the U.S. Open … Serena and wins it, and Venus are basically beat him … why they are two of the most U.S. women tennis players who have never taken the court.

For each tournament, both coming, going, you can find only one player can win them … and it is the other sister. It may not always happen this way, but usually it. They are the most powerful ever to play … both regarded as the tour's fastest serve record 129 km / h … and fastest way to sideline to sideline and back-court is a front court. For many of the championships played doubles together (seven Grand Slams two Olympic Games) give them the volleying deftness and quickness others lack. They compare his toughness, because the opponent when the opponent has learned, means that they can set-off, especially when they only went by, but just try closing them off.

Their relaxed approach to future years as the slam of fashion and film and television projects have been drawn criticism, but it is smart strategy that has kept them more and receive them back from injuries incurred their furious playing style … and is it so wrong to have a life?

As to who is better, we will take Serena, because he has won nine Grand Slam titles … including all four majors … and was a finalist in three others. Venus has won the U.S. Open twice and Wimbledon agreed to five wins, and was a finalist in each of the other two, and take the gold medal game of the double in 2000, but has never successful in Australia and France, the runnerup there once.

Here is the rest of our top 10 In brackets the average number of Grand Slam titles and won the runnersup. And the American tennis player, we mean born and raised … that out of Monica Seles and Martina Navratilova, who was a U.S. citizen until his career was well underway. We would have calculated it, Martina would be No. 3 and No. 8, Monica

3. Chris Evert (18.16). He seemed a whole generation of players his two-handed backhand and cool behavior. He thrived on all surfaces, winning two Australians seven French and six three Wimbledons U.S. Open. He was the world's No. 1 seven times. In Evert's 80 Classic challenges against bigger, stronger Navratilova, she almost came already … 37-43 going to the competition.

4. Maureen Connolly (9.0). "Little Mo," 5-foot-5, had a short but impressive career was shortened by riding accident in 1954 that destroyed his leg at age 19. By then he had become the first woman to bring Grand Slam in 1953. He won three consecutive U.S. Championships (1951-53) and Wimbledons (1952-54). That the zero column is the key stats, he never lost a Grand Slam final and won all nine Grand Slam tournaments he came from.

5. Billie Jean King (12.6). King was the queen of Wimbledon, winning a tournament record 20 titles (six singles, 10 doubles, four mixed). However, only 5-foot-4, used his serve-and-Volley style become the world's No. 1 five times between 1966-72, but received more attention two things … 1) Whipping Bobby Riggs is a "Battle of the Sexes" before 30,472 and the Astrodome in 1973, and 2), becoming the first major women's athlete to inform he was gay.

6. Helen Wills Moody (19,3). Nicknamed "Little Miss Poker Face", and the country's first big female tennis star, Moody won the all-time best American-19 Slam titles (eight Wimbledon seven U.S., four French) never plays for the Australian Open. Usually dressed in white sailor suit, 1927-1932, she does not lose the set singles everywhere. Tennis seems to have been good to him longevity … He died in 1998 at the age of 92, bequeathing $ 10 million to the University of California.

7. Althea Gibson (5,2). Powerful and athletic, Gibson took back-to-back Wimbledon and U.S. crowns In 1957 and '58. He was the first black to win these titles. He could slow clay in Excel as well, won the French and the Italian Cup in 1956. Later he became a professional golfer.

8. Doris Hart (6.11). As a young girl, Hart watched people play tennis in his hospital window after surgery. He took the game, and won all four Slam events. In 1951 at Wimbledon, he claimed singles, women's doubles and mixed doubles titles with loss of only one set.

9. Lindsay Davenport (3,3). He whipped himself right and is himself a master, won the Australian, Wimbledon and U.S. Open … and Let's not forget, he took the gold medal in Atlanta in 1996. The era of tumultuous teenage tennis, his steadiness and good sportsmanship were welcome virtues. Of course, that the 6-foot-2 and with the most powerful ground strokes in the game, or close to it, does not hurt.

10. Tracy Austin (2.0). Better known today, the TV commentator, Austin came and went as the comet that robbed his career as a major back pain. Before it forced him to retire At age 20, he managed to win the U.S. Open twice, performing at the very top level, the player one final Evert, Navratilova in the second. 5-foot-5 baseline Head was the youngest ever to win if … 16 years, 9 months … and the women's tour, still the youngest winner of the tournament (age 14 from Portland).

Gerry Storch is editor and administrator of http://www.ourblook.com , a political discussion/media analysis website that fills the gap between a blog and a book. In his journalism days, he was sports editor of Gannett News Service.

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