This was one of the best WTA Championships ever, if not the best ever. Having Sharapova and Serena in the final, two icons. Also atmosphere was amazing, turkish crowd was spectacular. They really enjoyed whole championships.
So henin vs sharapova WTA championships final 2007 was less than this?! Come on now! We already knew who was going to win, when these 2 match up Serena is going to win. It's not a rivalry...
One of Serena’s best seasons, unbelievable to think it came 10 years after she became number one. She’s had a very long career, but she could have won so much more from 2004 to 2011
In any match between these two ,,there will be no tennis to watch ,,,it was very simple for serene to win over Maria. Maria must know how to defend and make Serena to step backward.
As always, Serena didn’t come to play, Serena came to demolish Maria. Really it’s not a competition when playing with Maria, l think Maria just be playing for the joy of the game.
Total domination... I truly believe that Serena started losing her confidence after the 2015 US Open when Maria pulled out and would have probably met her in the semis... Instead she got Roberta Vinci😞... She always truly looked forward to meeting her in later rounds... Then Maria started taking long breaks and Serena started losing to people in finals that she would normally beat because she lost her focus... Maria was literally her driving force to succeed...
there is some truth to this. i believe that if she had met Maria in any of those finals, she would have won. Also the tennis world began to support her more towards the ending of her career which meant that she did not feel that she had more to prove especially after having a child. but the same way Novak is who he is today because of his hate for Federer and drive to beat him. Serena had the same with Maria post 2004. of course Serena is much stronger than Fed is mentally.
