🥇🎾 Women's singles match point throughout the Olympics! 

She's so pretty

The Best 👍💯

Talk about one hit wonder

It gives me chills each time!

Yep, she was unheralded going to Rio but welcomed like a national hero when she came back home to PR. That is what an olympic gold medal does to every athlete's life 🥇

God, I loved Dementieva!!

The most deserving player to should have won a slam in the last 20 years! I’m glad she has a place in history as an Olympic champion! Double Olympic medalist in tennis at that! She played in the most grueling era against Serena, Maria, Justine, Kim, Jennifer, Venus, Lindsay 🥴

Dementieva will be remembered as the best slamless player of women tennis.

Yes myskina that was an epic choke. Would probably have gone on to win gold had she won that match and ended up leaving with nothing.

She is so brave .

Yep, she was unheralded going to Rio but welcomed like a national hero when she came back home to PR. That is what an olympic gold medal does to every athlete's life 🥇

She crushed Maria so badly. I’m just surprised she didn’t win at least one more singles gold medal considering how great she is. Olympics are funny sometimes as players like Monica Seles never won either, but Monica didn’t play in 92 which was her prime and wasn’t the same after the stabbing in 93.

@@moviefan4life166 she crushed EVERYONE so badly. By the final, Serena was fully motivated. Sharapova was gracious in defeat as ever though.

Not the Bryan brothers?

@@mattbeidleman6799 no cause they're only playing in doubles no single st all unlike the williams sisters playing single and double.

@@lolitvelasco4585 yup... and I believe they have 3 golds in doubles ... and Venus Williams being the most awarded Olympic medalist in history by an individual (both men and women) 4 golds and a silver

@@dblog your absolutely right.bravo!

No. Steffi competed for West Germany in 1988, which had a different flag. Germany was reunified in 1990 as one country, symbolized by the destruction of the Berlin Wall separating the East and the West. It was a huge moment in history.

You‘re right, but at 00:13 there‘s the flag of the GDR

Agreed! And she faced Jankovic, Wozniacki, Vika, and Sugarpova en route to the title, barely losing games.

It was super windy that day! Sharapova has had some of her worst losses in that condition (I remember Clijsters destroying her on a very windy day too). I think serena handled the win very well.

@@ajollypanda4175 serena has the power to overwhelming everything, even the wind.

@@ajollypanda4175 i don't if the match you mention between maria and clijster is US open 2005 semifinal?

And why is that? Who r you a fan of now?

This makes me wonder. Does how quickly a court is made affect its speed?

An American taking gold in Atlanta! Winning in front of your home crowd is always special, who do you think would win in Paris…?

Tennis was only a demonstration sport in 84

Me 2 and Venus

Hebat yah elena 😍

she's not the goat......cmon now

@@ben6883 She absolutely is. - Only player in history to win the Golden Calendar Slam - Only player in history to win a quadruple career Slam (winning all four majors 4 times) - Only player in history to win 6 Slams on every surface - Most weeks at #1 in history - Most years finished as the #1 in history - Only player in history to make 13 consecutive Grand Slam finals - Only player in history to win 3 Slams or more in a season FIVE times - From 1986 until 1996, a period of 11 seasons, she failed to reach the QF of a Slam just ONCE - She won 48% of the tournaments she played and 41% of the Grand Slams she played. - Highest peak in the history of the game (1987-1990) in which she had a 305-11 record, won 47 titles in 4 years including 5 Slams in a row, the Golden Calendar Slam and reached 13 consecutive GS finals

Steffi Graf is indeed the GOAT! Not the one they are claiming to be. Graf did not need a very long span of playing years to achieve her 22 Grandslam titles and her gold and silver Olympic medals!!! Graf was never arrogant too to anybody in the court. She was just quiet and very focused. And most of all, never lost a match due to bad behavior!!!

@@TheHolisticSoul the one they are Claiming to be🤣🤣🤣🤣 Poor you! Of course she didnt need a long span she only need a crazy fan to almost kill to ONLY rival she had in her poor Erea

Have you not heard of Serena Williams?

She’s German, what did you expect!?

@@ohhiitsjustme3445 to be more polite, cause they are watching by the World? What's wrong about being polite ?

She had elbow surgery late 2019 and is due to finally come back in the FO qualies! Shes been inactive due to the injury

I know she still is the reigning Olympic champion

@@luistorres3220 so what's happened between 2016 and 2019 time?????

Monica Puig's victory is the pinnacle of all Olympics tennis gold medals.

Yes they plays on ariake tennis park it is hardcourt

Ooops

I don’t care much for Kerber but I cut her some slack on this one. It’s a tough loss. I can’t imagine it feels to lose the gold medal match in front of the world while representing your country. That’s a lot. I think she can be excused for not being more enthusiastic.

and Sharapova’s loss against Serena at Wimbledon /the .12 Olympics? Serena knocked her off the court and Sharapova /*still looked Serena in the face/ and said “Well played.” and Sharapova, please note, was not regarded by her contemporaries as a gracious player. then look at Kerber. this is shameful. recognising the winner and congratulating them is a /bare minimum/ in competitive sport. i did gymnastics, track and field competitions at school and tennis at university. win or lose, i have /never treated/ anyone like this.

Kerber is known for giving bad handshakes.

No she lost.

@@lolitvelasco4585 yeah so sad. I love osaka

@@elionardi9300 sorry i'm not fan with her just se23na the queen forever and ever until the rest of my life.

Puig fluke run how annoying for actual competitors who work hard and win slams then you have her win that gold medal 👎

The beauty of the Olympics is when the underdog wins against all odds ! Divinity at work.

@@ralph7545 she won’t be remembered in tennis history.

You can’t really compare different eras, technology has helped change the game a lot, it would be interesting to see players like Osaka using those raquets&balls&shoes from the 80’s And by the way, Graf was 19 when she won the Gold medal in Seoul, she had already won 5 Grand Slam titles plus the Gold medal in Los Angeles 84, do you honestly believe Naomi at 23 with only 4 slams and no medals to her credit is better than her?

@@franciscolaprida2133 Absolutely. Naomi would pummel Graff 6-0 6-0 as would Serena. She will win more Slams than Graff and in a much tougher era too. Tennis just keeps getting better. Everyone thought Serena was the best, but then came Naomi and started regularly dragging her like 6-3 6-2 in Miami, 6-2 6-4 in USO and 6-3 6-4 in AO. It’s not even close. One day someone better than Naomi will probably come along too, but for the time being she is the most talented female player ever (so far).

@@akizaizinskii Naomi Osaka has yet to prove how good she is on all surfaces. Until now (23 y/o) she has not done it on grass, or on clay, she has not even reached the finals un any tournament on these surfaces. Steffi and Serena at 23 y/o had already won on all suurfaces, and consecutively. There still a long way to go to Osaka to get even close to these two great stars of world tennis. I like Osaka's game, but I think he should improve a lot , both on clay and grass to show to fans and followers how good she is.

@@rudyromero9788 Please. Sharapova won two RG titles and she is not 5% talented as Naomi. Naomi will win multiple RG and Wimbledon titles in the following years for sure.

@@akizaizinskii i wish that would happen, but so far she has a long way to go. In my comment, never mentioned "Masha",who by the way reached three finals in RG, winning two, reached three finals in Wimbledon winning one. Now it's time to see how many finals Naomi will reach, both in clay and grass. Hopefully many of them.

It was a fluke run