Who is your FAVOURITE of FAVOURITES? Womens Wild Card Qualifier

indiana · Tennis legend

Who is your FAVOURITE of FAVOURITES? Womens Wild Card Qualifier

ROSAMUND · Futures level

telstar wrote:
brittak wrote:
Michael D wrote:
ROSAMUND wrote:
No votes for Anna Kournikova. About 20 years ago she was everybodys favourite although she never won a WTA tournament.

-- Edited by ROSAMUND on Sunday 17th of May 2020 02:05:48 PM
Haha let's not be too sweeping with the everybody
She could probably be described though as the first celebrity tennis player, who made more from her modelling than her tennis itself.
Indeed!
Kournikova and Bouchard are the favourite players of those who like pretty girls more than they like tennis!

-- Edited by telstar on Sunday 17th of May 2020 04:28:53 PM

You can knock Bouchard but the fact remains she did achieve something most players never do and that was play in a Grand Slam singles final(Wimbledon for good measure) She did better in that department than any British woman since Virginia Wade in 1977.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

You know, I realise I didnt suggest maria kirilenko. Apart from being a very pretty girl, i thought she seemed a good person and took tennis seriously. She didnt go for all the self publicity of others mentioned here, although she did some.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Poll closes and 3 qualifiers are Lisicki, Hantuchova and DellAqua. Well done to them and thanks for voting!

ROSAMUND · Futures level

indiana wrote:
I'm no fan of Bouchard but she had had some real substance as a player.

In 2014 she reached the Wimbledon final plus Australian and French Open SFs.

Then she had quite a fall-off in 2015 before literally falling in the US Open locker-room and being concussed, just as she had reached R4, the first back to back wins she had had since March.

There is s much better tennis player in there than we have seen over the last few years.

Yes at her best in 2014 she was on a par with Kerber and Halep. I can remember seeing her routing Kerber in Paris 2014 and repeating the win at Wimbledon and then defeating Halep in 2 sets to reach the final. One doesn't know how the defeat to Kvitova affected her. After that I can remember 2 decent performances in 2016. One being the match against Sharapova in Stuttgart and the other was against Jo at Wimbledon.