Even Clijsters isn't equal to Sharapova because all of her slams were only on hard. Azarenka looks like she's following her in vulturing hard court slams.
And Doomsy, stop with the idiocy of this being about hyping. Masha is the queen of being overhyped.
Nobody's saying that Vika's gonna with the grand slam this year..but you know what the say: the champ is still the champ till somebody beats her.
She can win even 8 slams but she will never eclipse Maria. Victoria can have bigger sports achievements, but she will never be more popular than Maria.
She already has. She defended a Slam title and won two slams in just one year. Things that Chernobyl Mutant never could have dreamed of achieving!!!!!!!!111111111111
She has a long way to go before doing so. It's more than winning two more slams, she'd need to win all 4 of them and the YEC etc. People seem to forget that Vika is only 2 years younger than Masha lol. Vika got lucky to win the AO this year, really great effort but she wasn't playing that well and thanks to other injuries she managed to pull it together.
While this is true let's not act like Serena is going to keep playing until she's 40. She's 31, turning 32. She has a good 4 years left in her, probably no more than 6 if she really wants it. She's going to retire soon, so Vika can snag a title out of Wimbledon right when she departs. She's not slouch on grass, losing in the SF's to the eventual champion the last two years in a row