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Bartoli: Serena is the strongest player in history

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"To be honest, the only way to go on court and perform is to avoid the fact you're playing Serena and just not look at her. Otherwise you see someone inside the court constantly and just pounding balls at you, all the time so hard. When you face that you feel like you have a bulldozer walking in your face. The feeling is, it's not a tennis match. Because normally a tennis match is about tactics, when you get into the rally, how you play the weakness of an opponent, maybe you get a short reply. Serena is taking that away, she doesn't want to get into this. It's all about the first shot (for her). She's going to ace you because she throws the ball the exact same way and she can hit every spot. She's so precise. On the return if you're lucky she might not be sharp on the first or second service game... but if it's a semi-final or final, the first time you serve she will whack three winners."
"She saw me practising with my father and I think because we had this father-daughter relationship and it reminded her so much of her relationship (with her dad)... so (she and Venus) have always been so kind to me and my dad. They always came to me in the locker rooms, even asking about my results, how I was doing."


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Marion Bartoli Says Serena Williams is the Strongest Player Mentally in History
 
#5 ·
@Saraya , your headline deliberately misrepresents what Bartoli said.
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She's strong cuz unlike you she loves eating food & doesn't deliberately starve herself like you and half the teenage girls out there
They complain when she's skinny, they complain when she's not. (Does "Cake" ring a bell?) Poor Marion can't win for losing. :sobbing:
 
#7 ·
Great words from Queen Marion for Queen Rena:inlove:
 
#9 ·
Surely in physical factor.

Mentally - She was until 2010. After 2011 she got vulnerable. Mostly at US Open. The only time she won witout any problems because of her head was at 2014 USO, where she had noone to lose against.

2011 - Stosur killed her, but she appeared extremely not-herself
2012 - won because Azarenka choked, 4 strong serves of Azarenka and she would be done
2013 - Outplaying Azarenka she allowed her to comeback, this time she awakened faster than 3:5 final set a year before
2015 - skinny scared italian was too much to stop legendary GOAT-wannabe from achieving what Graf achieved minus OG Gold
2016 - 1 match with Halep killed her fitness so much that Pliskova straight-setted her.

Bartoli is praising her ass because she's thankful as hell for Serena to focus on RG 2013 and flop Wimbledon because of that. She also loves Lisicki for taking out Aga who would destroy her in that final, loves to speak how she would win with Aga that day despite 0;7 hth.
 
#12 ·
Thanks for posting that. Though I wonder why you left "mentally" out of the thread title. Clickbait tactics?
 
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