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(269,157 posts)1-2 Let's go Serena - we want#22
Let's go Serena
malaise
(269,157 posts)Serena 2-4
Kerber is playing well
malaise
(269,157 posts)Kerber wins the final set 6-4
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Tennis needs new blood. Both men's and women's
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,364 posts)Kerber's 28, IIRC, so she's nearing the end of her career (as a player).
However, I don't think Williams is out-to-pasture just yet. She has a few major tournaments left in the tank.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)I think the men's side needs new blood and faces more
WhaTHellsgoingonhere
(5,252 posts)Delpo is gone, Raonic is improving, Nishikori is solid but frail; he might win one. Unfortunately, Dimitrov doesn't look like he's going anywhere. The next winners will emerge due to attrition. We kind of had a dead era in 2001-about 2003, when Hewitt was #1. Then the greatest generation filled the void. The next generation will be unspectacular. The women always have young blood. They will be more exciting until the men emerge.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Yeah I spelled it wrong. .lousy auto correct on my phone. Always an up and Comer on the women's side but they never seem to make that next step
WhaTHellsgoingonhere
(5,252 posts)have been crushed in less time. You can't hit a serve past Novak, especially on that surface. And Milos is developing a net game. He's a pigeon at the net for Novak at this time- pass left, pass right. No baseline game. No ROS. Murray can return serve and stay in rallies, which drags out the inevitable.
malaise
(269,157 posts)I don't believe in new blood if the old blood is better than all comers.
Go Serena.
a kennedy
(29,706 posts)I agree, new blood indeed.
malaise
(269,157 posts)That said she almost came back - she was down 5-2 and the set went to Kerber 6-4.