View Poll Results: Which world #5 is the best player at her peak? Hantuchova, Chakvetadze or Kerber?
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Daniela Hantuchova
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40.76% |
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Anna Chakvetadze
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25.54% |
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Angelique Kerber
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33.70% |
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Nov 27th, 2012, 10:55 PM
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Re: Which world #5 is the best player at her peak? Hantuchova, Chakvetadze or Kerber?
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That's because she didn't even get far enough to play against her.
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Well said 
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Nov 27th, 2012, 11:09 PM
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#62
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Re: Which world #5 is the best player at her peak? Hantuchova, Chakvetadze or Kerber?
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Originally Posted by Petkorazzi
Kind of hard to compare because while we've most likely seen the peaks of Daniela and Anna, Kerber still could improve next year (her serve has tons of room for improvement) so we're yet to actually see what peak Kerber is.
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Seeing that Kerber is a natural righty, I don't think there is that much room for improvement. Nadal's serve isn't the strongest because of this, too.
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Nov 27th, 2012, 11:11 PM
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Re: Which world #5 is the best player at her peak? Hantuchova, Chakvetadze or Kerber?
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Originally Posted by JCTennisFan
I felt the same way.
For me it was because her serve was so bad (atleast the 2nd serve). I thought to myself, how in the world is this girl doing so good with a leftie Hingis speed serve?
But 2012 showed me how good she can be. The rest of her game is very nice to watch and very competent.
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My former insistence that Kerber would be a flash-in-the-pan was just because I found it so hard to believe that someone who'd been such a "local" for so long could play so well  God only KNOWS what she was doing in all those years before the US Open 2011. It's not even like she occasionally produced big upsets once in a while out of nowhere like Li and Stosur did before their late-career breakthroughs.
Imo I do think she has some upside left. I don't realistically see her as a Slam champion like some of her more overzealous German stans would have us believe coughpatrickcough , but I do think she potentially has a Slam final or two and even greater consistency potentially ahead of her if she improves some things over the offseason.
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Nov 27th, 2012, 11:37 PM
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Re: Which world #5 is the best player at her peak? Hantuchova, Chakvetadze or Kerber?
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Seeing that Kerber is a natural righty, I don't think there is that much room for improvement. Nadal's serve isn't the strongest because of this, too.
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Nadal improved his service a lot.
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Nov 28th, 2012, 12:14 AM
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Re: Which world #5 is the best player at her peak? Hantuchova, Chakvetadze or Kerber?
Kerber.
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Nov 28th, 2012, 01:24 AM
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Re: Which world #5 is the best player at her peak? Hantuchova, Chakvetadze or Kerber?
Joke thread? Kerber easily.
I also very much doubt we've seen peak Kerber yet.
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Nov 28th, 2012, 01:31 AM
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Angie easily. Chak would be second though
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Nov 28th, 2012, 09:41 AM
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Re: Which world #5 is the best player at her peak? Hantuchova, Chakvetadze or Kerber?
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Originally Posted by Matías.
 At Hantuchova winning this comfortably. |
 I think Peak Kerber would beat peak Hantuchova quite easily.
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Nov 28th, 2012, 09:58 AM
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Re: Which world #5 is the best player at her peak? Hantuchova, Chakvetadze or Kerber?
Angie in 2 against both.
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Nov 28th, 2012, 01:42 PM
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Re: Which world #5 is the best player at her peak? Hantuchova, Chakvetadze or Kerber?
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Originally Posted by JCTennisFan
From what I have seen thus far... Kerber.
Hantuchova was a 2nd tier power player whom moved poorly. Her career high rank was in 2002 IIRC and that was a period where Serena, Venus, Capriati, etc hogged up all the points and left little to be distributed to the other players... which produced some odd ranking results that year. Hantuchova was one of those odd ranking outcomes... at her best she really should have been relegated to the bottom rung of the top 10.
Chaky overachieved... point blank. Like Hantuchova she honestly shouldnt have gotten higher than maybe 7 or 8 in the world.
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Melbourne: l. R32 #3 V.Williams 6-3 0-6 4-6
Paris: l. R16 #6 Seles 4-6 5-7
Wimbledon: QF #2 S.Williams 3-6 2-6
New York: QF #1 S.Williams 2-6 2-6
Hantuchova also won Indian Wells. SF in Montreal, New Haven, and Linz.
She had a 6-10 record vs. the top ten.
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Nov 28th, 2012, 01:44 PM
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Re: Which world #5 is the best player at her peak? Hantuchova, Chakvetadze or Kerber?
Peak Kerber would lose to Peak Hantuchova 6-2 6-3
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Nov 28th, 2012, 01:45 PM
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Re: Which world #5 is the best player at her peak? Hantuchova, Chakvetadze or Kerber?
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Peak Kerber would lose to Peak Hantuchova 6-2 6-3
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Jokes.
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Nov 28th, 2012, 06:53 PM
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Re: Which world #5 is the best player at her peak? Hantuchova, Chakvetadze or Kerber?
Hantuchova is always so overrated in polls here.
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Nov 28th, 2012, 06:59 PM
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Re: Which world #5 is the best player at her peak? Hantuchova, Chakvetadze or Kerber?
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Jokes.
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Nov 28th, 2012, 07:01 PM
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Re: Which world #5 is the best player at her peak? Hantuchova, Chakvetadze or Kerber?
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Hantuchova is always so overrated in polls here.
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Nearly every player whose peak dates back a couple of years is. 
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