Have the Williams's sister given up playing quality tennis?
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Ever since they hit super-stardom they receive many endorsements and I heard they started filming for a reality-tv series. They also have allowed their egos to swell and I've heard that they practice very little now days. However, you can't really say that they've given up, Since Serena won the 05 Australian Open and Venus won 05 Wimbeldon. No one can win either of those tournaments without putting worth maximum effort.
944674
Justine rules!  Very consistent, number one on the ranking with the very least number of tournament played.\n\nAs for american player, there is Sharapova.  Not quite but otherwise the tennis world will remain american free for an other 3 years I would say.
572794
She did retire shortly after the 2004 Athens Olympics, after playing in some of the games of the farewell tour or whatever it was called.  She would have been 32 years old.  That was a sad day when Mia Hamm retired :(
175675
what the hell does this have to do with tennis?
61879
I don't think Sharapova will make it to the top for another year or so.  The competition is pretty tough right now.  I mean, you have Davenport, Clijsters, and Mauresmo, all of which have a lot experience under their belt.  I think Davenport will probably remain at the top.  Although Sharapova is very good, I think she has room to get better as she gets older.  But as of now she still has some learning to do about herself and her opponents.  Also she still has her pectoral injury that she has yet to get over.  We all will just have to wait for her to get to the top once again.
794048
Apparently , their dad , Richard Williams , wanted to draw up a contrack with the organisers of a event  stating that his daughters would be playing in a Battle Of The Sexes tennis event in 2001 , without taking their permission . So they didnt turn up to play , and so the organisers filed a complaint for breach-of-contact.\nThats what happened \n\nPS-Venus said that her dad was her coach , not her manager,.
473855
Serena has a muscular frame and is very powerfully built.  She can exchange heavy shots with any woman on tour.  Serena likes to hit heavy angled shots and make her opponents run to track down balls.  Serena is also fast in her movement of quick starts and stops.  Serena has acomplished just about everything you can in tennis.  She has won multiple grandslam titles, she has become the #1 tennis player in the world...the only thing she has not done was to maintain the longevity of continued excellence which would have placed her among the all-time greats.  She is still in that company, just not quite in the same career wise as Graf and Navratilova.  Serena has lost some interest in maintaining peak physical condition and being match tough.  She has many other interests including fashion, acting, and perhaps even starting a family.  I think Serena might try to make one more run on tour, but ultimately i think her other interests will lead her to try other things.
1031192
A bit of clarification: first of all, the man that the Williams sisters lost to was ranked 205 at the time. The Williams sisters had been claiming to the media that they could beat any professional male outside of the top 100 men in the world. Apparently, after being smoked by an aging player (who prepared for his match by downing a few beers, among other things), they changed their song and started claiming being able to beat any male outside of the top 350 in the world.\n\nAnd as for the Billy Jean King match, it should be noted that the match pitted King against a 55 year old man. Bobby Riggs wasn't one of the top men's players in the world anymore--he wasn't even a professional player, anymore. His glory days where in the 1930s and 40s, not in the 70s when the Battle of the Sexes took place.\n\nBut to answer your question directly, no. The ATP Tour is for men's tennis, while the WTA is for women. Maybe your question is more 'Can women physically compete with men' rather than a question of rules.\n\nIn order to better understand the differences between women's and men's tennis, go to your closest D1 university and watch the men's and the women's teams play. You'll notice a few differences, among which: the men are able to produce more velocity on the ball from more positions (i.e., in the men's game defenders can turn into attackers from virtually anywhere), the serves are all bigger, and their movement is usually better.\n\nAnother anecdote to put things in perspective: when I was a junior player in a small city, there was a woman on the WTA tour from our city. One day she played one of my 16 year old friends in a training match. He was a good player--ranked among the top 5 in the state for his age, and probably among the top 100 to 50 in the region--but he almost beat her and lost 5-7 or 4-6, something like that.\n\nI'm afraid that the gap is still too big between the top men and the top women in the world.\n\nI hope that helps.
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Most likely not.  They are usually playing with some injury as it is  during the course of a tournament.  They would not want to pile on the extra doubles tournament because they are going to want to recover for their singles play,  It would be a good idea I think foe them to play, nut I do not see it happening.
56781
I am indian .I watch her play but i don't think she is to 2 good to match with sharapova.Her forehand r good and have strentgh but she is back in backhand play. Indian media has taken her to seventh heaven by hiding her errors and weakness.
794339
I think she will.  She has talked about retiring , but she may want to do some kind of farewell season.  At least playing the majors if her health holds up.  Lindsey playing hurt and banged up has been going on her whole career. So I predict she will announce that the 2007 US OPEN will be her last event prior to the AUSTRALIAN OPEN.
976216
yes i totally agree with u.she is such a mean old girl and is too arrogant.her grunts equal the sound of a pneumatic drill and she has really bad ties with other players especially all the russian players who absolutely hate her.her father openly cheats providing on court coaching.also i feel she is a bit of a giant 6'3'' is too tall for a girl she'll even be towering over federer and nadal.she is surely there for the money and herself says she finds it difficult to prevent getting involved full time in fashion.i dont like her for me she is no legend with her disgusting,arrogant,i-am-the-best attitude.
879711
yep..Henin-Hardenne just did. She kicked sharapova's arse...\ni hate her too..she is arrogant and self-centred like u said. Her game is not all that good but she still brags abt it..she is a stupid lil' girl tryin to get attention and the bad part is that she is gettin it.
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I think Sesil Karatantcheva took the steriods to improve her athletic performance quicker, and/or was influenced by her coaches.  Womens Tennis is so competitive this day and age.  The top players are strong, and quick.  The sad thing is that she is only 16.  I guess that she wanted to strive to be one of the top players, in a fairly quick manner.
576551
none.  she retired in  1975 thus didnot compete in the 1976 olympics
439839
I think she can come back. The age players can play competitively seems to be increasing (although grantedly the mean age seems to be getting younger). I think that modern medicine can allow her to play on...maybe she will develop a strong doubles career if singles becomes too difficult.
642409
You should stop competing with her.  That's why she does it. :)