How great was Billie Jean King in comparison to other tennis players?
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Compared to me, pretty good.  Compared to players like Navratilova or Graf, not in the same league.
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my answer would be Chris Everett, Martina Navratilova, Steffie Graf, Martina Hingis and Monica Seles
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Boris Becker was good...\n But Mark Philippousis was the hottest ...\nSafin is ok..\n  But Rafael Nadal...look at his rippling muscles and boyish smile.. i like him..
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Depends on the surface: \n\nOn Grass Pete Sampras in his prime is the best has an edge over Federer, Sampras had the best serve in the game.\n\nOn Hard court, Sampras and Federer would be evenly matched. \n\nClay court: Many players. \n\nOverall: Sampras is the greatest for now, unless Federer beats his grand slams record.
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Bjorn Borg was one of the coolest customers ever to grace a tennis court. Nothing rattled this guy, he seemed to always be in control and very rarely played a loose point. Borg also had a standing heart rate which was extremely low which demonstrated how he was in such great shape. Borg also had a backhand with which he would take the pace you provided and rifle an even better shot back. He had unbelievable control off both wings and you had to play great tennis to beat him. There was just no mental lapse with this guy, and that is why McEnroe would not act out of line when playing against Borg. Borg might be the only tennis player that McEnroe truly respected out there on court. Borg just had that intangible where he knew how to orchestrate a point to gain an advantage that would lead to a win. Borg was like watching a surgeon play, his shot selection was very precise and it turned him into a champion, a five time Wimbledon champion.
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Are you kidding???? Do you mean now, that Arthur is in his grave, or when each was in their prime?\n\nThere is plenty of evidence that the top females cannot compete against any good male professional. Just ask any of the men and women who practice with each other occasionally. \nRemember that the world #1, Margaret Court, lost to a 55-year-old player. Billie Jean King beat this same player, but clearly had the sense not to play Arthur Ashe, Jimmy Connors, Stan Smith, etc.\n\nI love watching the women play, and they are enormously talented, but the power of the serves, the spin, and the court coverage of the men is too much. Even though Ashe's game is not up to the standards of male players today, he would definitely have beaten Serena.\n\nBy the way, one of the Williams foolishly suggested that she could beat a pro in the top 100 or so. Not only did the pros scoff at the idea, but you may notice that neither Serena nor Venus have mentioned it again.
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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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you need specifics. you could be talking about backhands, forehands, volleys, overhead smashes, or all around playing. i think they are both extremely talented players, and to say one is better, that would be putting the other down.
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Bjorn Borg won the French 6 times I think along with his 5 straight Wimbledon titles but the US Open eluded him, losing to Jimmy Connors twice and John McEnroe twice in the finals.  Ivan Lendl won the French 3 times, US Open 3 times, and Australia at least once but he could never take Wimbledon.  I know it wasn't exactly addressing your question but it just letting you know about other top players who had one grand slam leg elude them.
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My guess must be FED EX he's an overall player able to play in any surface to perfection, better place your bets on Roger Federer.
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martina hingis...\n\nheres why: \n1)she has made an amazing comeback \n2)she is a solid player in both singles and doubles\n3)she isn't into all of the fasion and sponsorship stuff that some of the other top girls are into\n4)shes really nice (i have met her)
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Serena, Venus.\n\nSerena:\n\n• Won first professional singles title at Paris Indoors the same day older sister Venus Williams won Oklahoma City, marking first time in professional tennis history that two sisters won titles in same week.\n\nI don't know why it says same week since it was also the same day, but ...
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Lleyton Hewitt won the US Open in 2001.\n\nCheck out the link for proof.\n\nMatt
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I tried to look up his record, and I didn't find any record of the person you mentioned ever playing in any of the major tournaments.  \n\nOops, I thought I was in the tennis section.
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Mats Wilander. He beat Ivan Lendl by 3 sets to 2\n6-4 4-6 6-3 5-7 6-4
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Hahahahaha\n\nTo give you an idea of the difference in skills.  When Venus was #1 she played the #80 guy in the world and lost.  That tells you how Fed will beat Sharapova 6-0, 6-0.\n\nP.S.  In the battle of the sexes the guy was 40 and played with a handicap.  Only got one serve (ie fault = double fault)  A prime male athlete will beat a prime female athlete because of the difference in strength and speed.
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She was known on tour as frauline forehand.  I remember Mary Carillo once said that when God made legs built for tennis, he kissed Steffi right on the lips.  She is without a doubt one of the greatest players ever to grace a tennis court, man or woman.