Thursday, July 02, 2009

Wimbledon Dominance

Wimbledon has a tradition of creating heroes.
Like the dominance by the Williams sisters.
They have been in the finals every time since 2000 (except 2006) and between them have 7 winners and four runners up finishes. They have another three doubles titles as well.
Individually still far away from the 9+3 results of Martina Navratilova. We have not forgotten her seven doubles titles and four mixed doubles titles. She is the true owner of the centre court having ruled over it from 1985 to 2003 (almost twenty years in a sport where speed and strength means so much) when she won the mixed doubles with our own Leander Paes.
We had Pete Sampras winning seven titles and Roger Federer is now a few steps away from his sixth top finish.
Sisters being so dominant have only one other comparable period when in 1881 -89 William and Earnest Renshaw had 8+5 winners and runners up finishes and seven doubles titles as well.

It would be interesting if somebody worked on this angle. Why is there such an history of domination at Wimbledon.

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