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Most Heartbreaking GS Loss?

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#1 ·
I was thinking earlier this year (mostly around AO '13) about the most heartbreaking GS losses.

I know there are many more than this but these are the few that come to my mind:

Li Na - AO '12 & AO '13
Clijsters - FO '01
Dementieva - W '09
Jankovic - '06

(I wanted to include a poll, but I'm too noob to know what to do)

Also, I understand many will use the argument of 'none because they all deserved to lose because they never seized their chance when they had it etcetc.' which is fair enough I suppose.
 
#4 ·
Davenport- Wimbledon F, 2005.
Pierce- RG F, 2005.
Capriati- USO SF, 2003.
Henin- Wimbledon F, 2006.
Hingis- RG F, 1999.

A few off the top of my head. Obviously the most notable one was Novotna after the final of Wimbledon 1993. The most distraught depiction of a tennis player up to that point.

I think Venus's Wimbledon final loss to Serena in '09 demoralised her beyond repair after that, especially in big matches.

Safina too at the French in '09.
 
#13 ·
I dont look at Dementieva's loss to Serena as heartbreaking because Venus was in the final, and its hard to beat both Serena & Venus at Wimbledon.
Davenport having a championship point, then back problems in 2005, that one must still hurt. Her last slam win was Jan. 2000.
Hantuchova against Ivanovic at 2008 AO, because that would have been a career best at a major for Dani, a slam final.
Also Cornet having match points against Safina at 2009 AO, that might have hurt her career
 
#28 ·
:hug:

Definitely nothing compares to RG 99 and AO 2002 for me.
:crying2:
 
#19 ·
Zvonareva losing to Pennetta at USO 2009
 
#35 ·
THIS. :sobbing:

I remember the following year ESPN showed the match during a rain delay. I watched all of one point before turning it off. It still hurt too much then, and still hurts too much now.
 
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#27 ·
Sharapova AO 2005 Semifinal against Serena :sobbing:
 
#31 ·
Venus Williams:

RG/W/UO F 2002; AO F 2003: Losing to Serena 4 times in a Row in a slam final
UO 2005 SF: Losing to Clijsters after being up 6-4 4-2
UO 2008 QF: Losing to Serena 6-7 6-7 despite having setpoints in each set
W 2009 F: Losing to Serena in the final of Venus' favorite slam hurt her confidence forever and she hasn't been the same mentally since
AO 2010 QF: Losing to Li Na despite being up 6-2 5-3
UO 2010 SF: Losing to Clijsters after being up 6-4 6-6 and playing the worst tiebreak I have ever seen
 
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