17-year-old Serena Williams vs Monica Seles | US Open 1999 Quarterfinal
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- In just her second ever appearance at the US Open, 17-year-old Serena Williams takes on her childhood idol Monica Seles in the quarterfinals of US Open 1999!
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That era for women's tennis was so much fun.
Today it's also fun because everyone can beat everyone,literally... but there's no quality 😑😑😑
The 90s were the best decade for women's tennis imo and that's despite Seles's stabbing. Imagine how great the decade would've been if she wasn't.
@@SamLwin 1996-2009-2010 was a great era, so many names, so many stars in their peaks at the same time, great rivalries
SELES WAS NOTHING COMPARED TO THE WILLIAM SISTERS!!! WE ITALIA KNOW/SEE/PREDICT.
Especially Serena who take down Graff easily!
Serena's serve, even as a seventeen year old is tremendous.
is is incredible in both its extension and fluidity. any player dreams of having a serve like that. :)
best feemale serve?
@saigonbond Brenda Schultz McCarthy didn't have any real success as a player other than a few WTA tour titles but outside of Serena, I would say Brenda had the best female serve, she had the combination of pace and spin and could hit many aces. Many players can serve fast but with not much spin or placement. That's what makes Serena's serve stand out, the pace combined with spin and placement.
if you old enough to know when seles was serena age she was beating graff the best at that time like 4 straight masters! 😁 then they stabbed her during a match against graff! i think a graff fan didn't liked her! 🤣 there was a reason she was her idol i guess
@@prosports7908 u must be stupid. Seles did not play against Graf when she was stabbed.
Serena and Venus always mention that Seles is their inspiration for playing tennis.
Serena mentioned Monica as being her favorite
@@perryhughes9429 Serena mentioned Graf as being the GOAT
@@musicthenews But their inspiration was Monica.
確かにパワーテニスも唸り声もセレシュから多大なインスピレーションを得ていますね！😊 この試合でそれは明らかです。😊
@@musicthenews Serena might have said that when she was 17, but you know damn good and well that was not said in the last 10 years.
Monica Seles is a true legend,after everything she's been through..she truly is a queen...she was always fighting for every ball...Respect
@Khwairakpam Napoleon yes.Wimbledon Finale =too weak on grass!In this case Pete Sampras is alos no a legend.
@Khwairakpam Napoleon Are Connors,Lendl,John Macenroe,Becker.Edberg also no legends?
@Khwairakpam Napoleon There are legends but Sampras not.Who it is possible.He won more.
Hi Stefan. Is this a match after she (Monica) got stabbed by the German guy? Oh I just search Google. She got stabbed in 1993.
That Germany such a f**king ass hole. Destroy Monica career because Monica always beat Staffi Graf (German player).
F**k them...They can't win they have to do dirty game.
@Khwairakpam Napoleon sorry my mistake. I just correct it. Please read
Monica started in the Chris/Martina/Steffi era and finished in the Williams era. She played most of the all-time greats.
Chris retire in usa open of 1989, more like navratilova/steffi
Seles is also considered an all-time great.
I just love Monica Seles! She is my all-time favorite!😘❤
Monica is a great player, but my favorite will always be Serena. She is the Queen 😅
@@doksh5740 you're absolutely right.
@@lolitvelasco4585 oh no dude.
Seles Is even Serena role model and favorite
Two of my all-time favorite players
Mine also. Being a Kid i used to love Monica and post Serena's retirement, i just stopped watching lawn tennis.
waiting for ridiculous comments like "Monica had an agreement with Steffi to defeat Venus /or Serena so that they could meet up at the final"
That was Hingis and Davenport. They were so jealous of Venus and Serena. Monica had too much class to ever say that aloud, even if she thought it. I only ever heard Monica say good things about them.
What a match, Serena. You have shown us all what a champion you are. It was very nice to see this old match. People have forgotten how great Serena was. She was only 17 years of age and has beaten one of the greatest players at that time. Congrats, Serena Williams, you are the Queen of tennis and hearts❤️❤️❤️
Monica at 17 was pretty good too. Hope Serena never goes through what Monica was subjected to- not an even playing field on those terms which really matter.
Hahhahaah
What do you mean "not an even playing field". If you're talking about Monica's unfortunate stabbing, she returned to Tennis and made it to the final rounds of Grand Slams. This match was an even playing field. Monica had more experience playing in Grand Slams. Not sure what you mean by "even playing field." Doesn't make sense to me.
@@ofcolorscreativecollective5510 Monica was far past her prime in this match. Don't act like it doesn't make sense. Seles prime was 1991-1993, before stabbing.
@@networth00 The excuses flow like cheap boxed wine. In reality, the reason Seles was not in her prime was because she got out of shape and didn't improve her game during that lengthy and medically unnecessary break she took. The game passed her by while she was having a love affair with butter (she talks about his in her book). Good effort to return to the tour, but without the fitness levels the game required, she was not a threat to the top and up-and-comers, like Serena. And her results showed just that.
I will always love Monica seles. She’s my hero she’s the reason why I loved tennis from when I was a kid. Two handers were my
Thing as well more power and control I loved her style. If it wasn’t for the stabbing she would have been the greatest
Of the greatest
Ever.
Many people started watching tennis because of Serena Williams 🌹
Even Monica wouldn't blame this on the stabbing. Your comment is disrespectful to her. Serena play a better game Monica thought it would be an easy game but once Serena got in her element is was over. Serena always fires up in the second set.
Spot on!
Totally agree. If it wasnt for the stabbing Monica Seles would most probably have been the GOAT. She had EIGTH Grand Slams before the age of 20. Serena had 1.
pffft she made one Wimbledon final.
The game at 3-4 second set was key. Seles lost concentration with a double fault at game point and never recovered her intensity, while Serena played an incredible defence to offence point on the second break point. Both players had such a fiery will win to win it’s always fun seeing two players like that face each other.
no commentary - bliss!
Not being able to see the score is annoying
That serve is what separates Serena from everyone else.
yes, i remember watching this match. I knew she would go on to dominate for years to come.
This was greatness in the making one love everyone
wow serena played against seles? no wonder the new generation players are in awe when they face serena
Are you suggesting that their in awe, not because of Serena’s brilliance but because she played against Monica Seles? Surely you’re not suggesting that foolishness.
@@billiondollarbaby973 thats a reference to her longevity which counts for something dicweed lol
@@john_mark4127 you shoul have said that weirdo. All they have to do is Google the date she started. Fvvc Seles.
@@billiondollarbaby973 oh i get it,break it down to a kindergarten level for you. Lol. Ill keep that in mind
@@john_mark4127 like I said, fvvc seles. No one in awe of Serena thought anything about Seles. Stop trying to give a white women credit weirdo.
Early-to-late 90s were the best in women's tennis! Just when Graf and Navratilova retired, the flock of newcomers arrived and claimed GS titles!
Serena would've beat them anyways
@@varunshahvo-tv9854 In their old age, sure. But make no mistake, she is not greater than those two.
Whattt?@@alanfrost75
In any case only Monika Seles!She is dazzling.The best number 1 in the world
She’s trash…real drama queen. That is why they called her Madonna seles.
I was at this match back in 1999...my firm usually gave out tickets to US Open matches (including the finals), Yankees games, Mets games, NY Knicks games, and the NY Giants games. This is one of the matches where I cheered for both Monica Seles and Serena Williams. Monica was on pace to becoming the GOAT of Tennis after winning 8 Grand Slam tournaments while she was still only a teenager (winning her first Grand Slam at the age of 16 against Steffi Graf in 1990). But after she was assaulted and stabbed in the back by a crazed fan during a tournament at the age of 19, ranked #1, she was forced to take 2 years off to recover physically and mentally since her attack also led to her suffering from PTSD. She was just never the same after her return from that horrific attack, winning just 1 additional Grand Slam for a total of 9 --- this was a young girl who was unstoppable before being attacked on the court. It's almost like she played with a broken heart when she returned to the game. And it also didn't help that she was also 'stabbed in the back' figuratively by her women's tennis peers who all voted that not only should her number 1 ranking be taken away after the horrific attack...but also that she should not even be within the Top 10.
This is why, even with a young career cut short with 9 Grand Slam titles (and whereby she could have racked up 20+ Grand Slam titles if she were never assaulted by a crazed knife-wielding attacker on the tennis court), I would rank Monica right up there as the GOAT alongside Serena Williams, with Steffi Graf ranked 2nd or 3rd best of all time. Of course, Venus is up there as well, along with Martina Navratilova, and Chris Evert.
What about Margaret Court?
@@melodiousman - Margaret Court was BEFORE the Open era, so nope, I don't even count her on the same level of truly great players who demonstrated their dominance during the more challenging Open era.
Margaret court is absolutley in fhe goat conversation.
She won the grand slam , the only woman player to ever do so in the open era , and she won 3 slams out of 4 in another year in rhe open era and she was down 5 /2 in the third agaisnt evert , easily the goat on clay , in thr final in the french but came back and won 7/5 in the third
@@iang8169 - Then we will have to agree to disagree. I assert that she is absolutely NOWHERE close to the GOAT conversation, since she played before the Open era of tennis. But please feel free to have YOUR own personal opinion on the matter. We don't have to agree, and you will never change my mind.
@@melodiousmanune blague ! Tennis d un autre temps carrément obsolète par rapport à Williams, Graff...
Serena: The Power, the confidence and the belief to win ... ✅💪🏽‼️
Start of 2021.. Serena Jameka has Won 23 Slams and hopefully will make 24..
Both are Tennis Royalty..
I love it, Serena is playing in her home Slam.......and the crowd is constantly saying "C'mon Monica".
Do you think is that for rasism or else.No way it's becouse of Williams sisters caracter,so agresive out of court.
Because Monica was THE dominant player back then.
@@Phred7447 hmm, i cant imagine the brits rooting for federer over tim henman even though federer was the dominant player. to me that explanation doesn't fly
Monica was already a US citizen, so it was her home slam too.
@@danijelamikic5363 straight-up racism.
Now, as King Richard is released nationwide, we know
RICHARD WILLIAMS raised 2 or more Queens!!!!!!!
DANG
so good to watch that smile on Serena,s face upon this victory. simply beautiful 😄
Weird when black people are called "queens". We know how good Serena is but what is she the "queen" of? In tennis there is no title called a queen. It makes blacks feel like they need to overcompensate for something.
人種差別甚だしい💢😠💢 セリーナ・ウィリアムズは23個のグランドスラムタイトルを獲得しました。🏆️🏆️🏆️🏆️🏆️🏆️🏆️🏆️🏆️🏆️🏆️🏆️🏆️🏆️🏆️🏆️🏆️🏆️🏆️🏆️🏆️🏆️🏆️😊そしてオリンピックでも金メダル🥇を獲得しました。結果が全て。女王に異論はありません。😊✌️✨✨✨
Monika was my favorite before the Williams came on the seen
1:45:58 After making Serena go three sets and winning that last game, Serena looked at Monica like, you tried it and now I'm gonna end your career real quick. 1:46:05 What was that exchange? Where's the commentary? 1:49:20 Serena's turn.
It's crazy to think this was only the 7th slam she had played in, everyone always talks about the Williams sisters dominated Wimbeldon which of course they did but at least one of them or both made the final in 97,99,00,01,02.
Please release all of Serena's matches for this tournament!!!
To think how ridiculously good Seles was with almost zero fitness against Davenport, Clijsters, Henin, Sharapova and the Williams. Amazing to think how good she could've been with a fitter physicality. Pity we'll never know.
@bigray1999 seles serve got a lot stronger later in her career. After 2000…
you forgot to mention the stabbing which completely messed with Monica
Delusional
I'm going to watch King Richard tomorrow. I can't wait.
Como pasó el tiempo😔😔😔😔 aquella jovencita paso a convertirse en una verdadera leyenda, sometiéndolas a todas con su poderío, perseverancia y resistencia 💪🏿👍🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
They are both Champions 🎾🎾It was a great breakthrough for Serena and we all got a chance to see what she became years later🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
It’s sad but Monica was never the same. She just lost motivation but she will always be my numero 1!!
Me too,we love her not only like tennis player,best evet,but like person
If Monica lost motivation, she would have never returned to the game. Do you think she came back to be second fiddle? She came back to compete and for the love of the game. She won another Grand Slam when she returned and played in other finals and won other tournaments.
Richard taught his girls that they were the best and they believed it! They feared no one! I wish this younger crop had that same belief.
A lot was Rick Macci he’s the genius .
"There will be another Graf, but not in my lifetime."
(Richard Williams on Steffi Graf)
"There's not one girl I see playing - I don't care if her name is Martina Hingis, Venus Williams or Serena Williams - who'll be what Graf was. Steffi was a thoroughbred running and the rest are mules."
(Richard Williams)
The psychological effect of the stabbing affected Monica far more than the
physical part of it, which she recovered from. Also in that period, her dad
died after a long battle with cancer. Monica was never the same after this,
and it's too bad, as she may have won more majors than any other player. I
loved to watch Seles play, as she brought incredible desire, grit and will to
win, the likes of which I've never seen before. Too bad this incident happened.
Monica Seles was my all time favourite player in the women's game.
In this match vs Serena, Monica was overweight, and was lacking that firey
intensity she used to have. Really Monica was just a shell of her former self
in this match. In the past her penetrating ground strokes rarely missed and
usually right inside the line, with deadly precision. By this time her will was
not the same as it used to be.
Monica returned to Tennis and made Grand Slam Finals and even won one not soon after her return. I think that's being her former self. Kudos to her for having the willpower and determination to win. The competition became more competitive during these years and the Williams sisters ushered in the power game causing other players to become better. Monica was right there in the mix.
@@ofcolorscreativecollective5510 Quit trying to complicate the issue. Monica had PTSD and was NEVER the same. Monica WON titles before, not just "made" finals. See the difference there? Monica was stabbed in 1993 and Serena didn't arrive until she won a GS until 1999. Monica Seles won 7 out of 8 grand slams before the stabbing. After that, Monica didn't win a grand slam for 5 years then never won another one. Hope that clears it up for you. I'll leave you with this... Serena and Venus looked up to Seles and wanted to play like her.
Overall it's a good comment, though I wouldn't describe Monica as overweight exactly. I don't think her size is the issue as much as maybe her fitness. A subtle difference, but, I'm just saying I've seen plenty of multi slam winners with a similar physique. She was still at a very elite level.
@Grant P
You really stacked up ALL the excuses for Monica Seles, didn't you?
I guess there's no way we can tell if Seles would have beaten Serena in this match without ALL the excuse you made for her.
@magnetmac1 if you got stabbed right now, and your father died of cancer, could you go and play sports the exact same as before all that happened?
57:38 what a point wow, that return from monica? WOW
Pure famous Monica Seles technical brilliance of old that here, in a tired 25-year veteran, reappears in flashes throughout this match. But also is bursting on the scene, and worth admiring as a welcome novelty, is the exuberant vitality of 17-year old Serena Williams, with and immense font of energy to spare. If things had proceeded normally in tennis life, the 8-year difference of ages between Monica and Serena would have guaranteed many many more confrontations of those two over the years. Those are the exciting superlative matches that we, fans and spectators, have irremediably lost after the dramatic turn of events that engulfed Monica Seles at 19.
Roo Bookaroo agree! i’m not from the generation of monica fans, i’m younger, but i can’t even imagine what tennis would’ve been like if it weren’t for what happened to monica
:( she was on top of the world and probably could’ve won more slams than any other player would in the history of tennis
Yes, we occasionally saw glimpses of her greatness after the stabbing, but she just wasn’t the same.
Serena owned her
@@jess4metoo (1) She lost 2 full years and 4 months of practice and training before returning to competition (2) She went from 118 lbs in 1991 to an unimaginable 174 lbs at Wimbledon in 1997. That she continued to compete while going through this extraordinary change of body structure - think of what that meant for her legs, heart and lungs - is a tribute to her courage and determination. That she still, as an obese player, maintained a position among the top ten is also a proof that her technical brilliance had not totally vanished. But her physical strength, vitality, and most important of all, her endurance, resistance to fatigue, were never again the same as before her overlong withdrawal. She never was again the same player as before her stabbing. Both players had the same name, but no longer the same body. Only the technique of high-precision shots, controlled by the brain, retained some of its extraordinary efficiency, but not consistently, only in flashes, enough to extract wows from the whole stadium.
Wasn’t Seles Serena’s Idol?! This is so beautiful to see ❤
"Idol" is probably saying too much.
But Seles was the best US player of the 90s. So it is conceivable that baby Serena rooted for Monica back in the day.
The sisters modeled their game after Seles
@@Wombeyy Yes, the Willies took the double-handed forehand and their serve&volley game from Seles.
And they emulated Monica‘s doubles career.
Go girl go girl ❤️❤️
Save to watch later.
2:46 that's my first time ever seeing Monica hit a forehand with one hand.
And another 57:38.
Maybe because she has long term injury to her shoulder?
monica's one weakness was her movement. she just hit the ball so deep all the time that it it was hard to exploit. but if you stretched her wide enough you could get a forehand out of her.
Seems like so much of the crowd wasn’t celebrating Serena’s wins at the time?
Nasty sexists!
The weather looks real hot and humid. I pitty the players.
This is a joy to watch -- two greats without the chatter of the commentators. Just the sounds of the game
...... on yhe end Serena said.... it"s finally my time....... oh boy..... she knew it already at age 17. Thats" s called .... confidence...
1st time i’ve watched Seles for ages!! No commentary is 👍 also
Serena was brutally confident at 17. She did not rattle! Plus she was quite the babe with tons of chiseled melanin to spare.
"It's finally my turn."
-Serena Williams (1:49:20)
Yes, it finally was her turn!
Awesome pick up.
Not very charitable if said against Monica Seles in tact tactless and disrespectful. Monica’s career was destroyed when she was stabbed on court during a match, she never recovered mentally or physically. You cannot judge her for later matches. A 17 year old Monica against a 17 year old Sabrina would have been a match to see.
I had goosebumps when she said that. she went on to be the best female to ever play.
@@cloverite you may love Monica but what she said wasn't Tactless at all. She fought for that win and she was correct it was finally her time. What happened to Monica was horrible but it had nothing to do with this loss or the fact that Serena was to become the greatest female player of all time. Period.
Serena's body was magnificent ! 🔥❤️🙂
Still is
It's one of the main reason I watch her matches, she's built like a coke bottle.
Was and Still Is ... Actually even Better Now at 40 or Damn near it😊
That’s steroids
@@jamessmythe1891 No she’s a black woman many are naturally built that way.
Monica is the best ever....
2人の素晴らしい女王👸👸🎾😃☀️ セレシュがUSオープンで初優勝した時も17歳の時でした😊
セレシュのテニスの流れを更に進化させたのがウィリアムズ姉妹😊
How incredible would it have been to see the two of them play at full strength? The pace on the ball would be insane, but I guess that’s way to much to ask after what happened to Monica and that they were from different generations.
czcams.com/video/N1Fzlp8R1Jg/video.html
This match is the closest we ever got. The ball striking was insane!
@James Frew l'm not sure what you mean. You are minimizing the play of the other players when you say at "full strength". Monica returned and won a Grand Slam...so she was at full strength. Thinking that she would have steamrolled all the players that came up is not realistic. Other players became fitter and stronger. Monica was away from the game for 2 years and won and made Grand Slam finals upon her return. Justine Henin retired and returned and made the final of a Grand Slam, Lindsay Davenport had a baby and returned to Tennis. Ashleigh Barty left and returned to Tennis. Unfortunately Monica was stabbed but returned to Tennis. So it happens quite frequently.
@@ofcolorscreativecollective5510 Monica won a grand slam and wasn't at full strength. Nobody but you thinks Seles returned as the same person before she was stabbed. Monica returned as a shell of herself, ask any tennis player. That shell happened to make a few finals, and even win one, but that doesn't mean she was full power as before. We get it, you love Serena, now go away.
Seles was the best womens player of all time in her prime. She would’ve handled Serena no problem with all those unforced errors and she was the only player ever to beat Graf consistently.
Lol dream on Goebbels.
Very funny. She's not even top 5 all time. The argument is Steffi Graff vs. Serena for the GOAT title.
No she wasn't .and no she wouldn't
serena was 17 here. seles' prime would absolutely have beat serena HERE. but the question is if seles' prime would have handled serena's prime and the answer is no. serena is quicker, stronger and has a much better serve. seles could beat graf bc she could exploit graf's backhand. serena is strong ok both sides.
@@Lil08103no one is better than prime Serena. But I wish Seles had been fitter when that new generation emerged.
Monica seles ich die beste Tennisspielerin aller Zeiten 👍👍🙂🙂😍😍
Seles is 15-49 win/loss against Steffi, Hingis, Davenport, Venus, Serena combined.
Commentating would've been appreciated for this match.
Baby Rena
I think someone like Monica, and even Steffi, knew from this moment on about the changing of the guards. That's why they did not stay long enough to get beaten time and time again by one of the sisters. I think someone like Zina Garrison-Jackson and Chanda Rubin could've done very well for themselves but they played the "how as it should be" type of game. But by the time the sisters came on board and showed what power game is like it was too late. Steffi has somewhat of a power game if you call it that. She beat the sisters, of course, but early on their career. Imagine Steffi going up against a Serena like the Serena in 2012 during the Olympics? Thank you. That's why Steffi and the rest did not stay long enough to experience what someone like Maria Sharapova is experiencing against Serena. Those that try to make a comeback like Henin really did not amount to anything other than being suspected of using performance enhancing drugs so they retired a second time. Hingis was the same.
Well said 👏
Monica and Steffi knew drug cheats were coming.
6:05 look at those steroid shoulders !
@@jamessmythe1891 They both love Serena, you're alone here
@@paigehere5176 You are imagining things. Corruption is producing fake champions, drug cheats bring the game into disrepute, they should be exposed, and kicked out of Tennis. There’s no place for drug cheats in any sport.
Steffi with her reconstructed knee overtook both Serena and Venus in the WTA rankings in 1999, beat Venus in Wimbledon, retired on August 13 (when Serena was ranked #11).
Capriati and Davenport were right when they said about a hypothetical Steffi in the early 00s:
"If she would have been playing now, not retired quite yet, this would be her time." (Capriati, 2002)
“She was the greatest champion I ever played against. …. What if she had kept playing? She would have won a lot more slams titles in my opinion.“ (Davenport, 2020)
Steffi slaughtered all-time greats like Navratilova and Seles in Wimbledon.
Not just Jankovic or Sharapova types like Serena in the 2012 non-slam tournament in London.
Nice match
Why do people in the comment section that this was a good era for women's tennis? How did tennis change? I used to watch tennis on TV back in the 80s and 90s. . Since then, I have not watched tennis. I recently started playing tennis and I am not familiar with the players now.
Serena is just gorgeous, she is extremely beautiful and dominant. Congrats, Serena
Yes, you are totally right.... Like a Sculptured Goddess ⚡⚡⚡⚡
It's hard to be ugly at 17. You got real problems if you are.
It would have been interesting to see these two battle it out in 1990 when Seles was also 17 and a fire breathing monster on the courts. Serena's powerful serve would have faced the razor sharp reflexes of one of the greatest serve-returners of all time. She was also very mobile, fast on her feet, and able to run down her opponent's best shots. People forget that she was like Coco Gauff.
Based on the first set, I think Serena may have faced defeat.
Love how you hear Mr. Richard at 35:45 “SERENA!”
Not until Venus and Serena came in the game.... These women tennis players were not tested... They fell when the 2 True Queens came on the scene. S and V 4Ever💯
Graf was at the end of her career and still beat them both.
Don’t you mean that the 2 drug cheats S and V have brought the game into disrepute ?
Notice all the noisy fly overs have long ceased at the us open
young Serena was not very consistent, but her serve has always been amazing. - best serve ever on the women's side
This was nowhere near the Seles of before the attack.
A Nike exc. was busy trying to contact Serena's dad to sign her up before she struck the last ball! LOL Also Monica must have really wanted this game to end, she was out on the court a good 2 minutes before play was to resumed, even Serena was confused, she asked the umpire is it time to play! LOL
LMFAO .
That ball boy with the glasses is in almost every US Open video I've seen. Who is he? I think that's amazing.
I’ve seen him for years! He seems to be there every year. Wish they’d do a bio on ball boys. He is amazing, an unsung hero if you ask me.
Serena....Nuff said....
How many planes are flying over during this match?! 😲
One of those sports where kids can break down adults hard!
That's pretty much every sport.
“It’s finally my turn” yes you were right Serena Williams it was your turn….
I came back to watch this match again after seeing king richard... I always loved serena
What a body on Serena at 17
Not to discredit modern tennis, but Serena had to beat some of the greatest players like Seles, Davenport, Hingis and Clijsters in the same tournament just to win her FIRST grand slam! That’s impressive! There’s 44 Grand Slams between all of those mentioned.
Serena was showing the tennis world what she was made of here, her first grand slam title two matches later... To be fair, after reading some of the comments written below, Seles was far from her best here (fitness) BUT also, Monica had never faced a player with such a big serve and someone who could match her power (Graf could of course) and maybe surpass it (By the way Serena made 15 aces in this match on 1st serves ? I don't see Monica moving back at all for the returns - she should have ).... We will never know 'what might've been' for Seles, yet we can all agree that she was a terrific player and a champion, like Serena Williams.
Love how you hear Mr. Richard at 35:45 “SERENA”!
OMG...Serena is GORGEOUS 😍!!!
You go girl, you go girl💯. Black girl magic mos def 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
Her hair was a big mess. That BGM stuff make black girls look weak and like they have to make up a saying to make themselves feel better. Imagine if another race said, OMG look we have Asian Girl Magic, or White Girl Magic... see how dumb that sounds?
Serena seems more comfortable approaching the net at 17 than she does now.
@@doksh5740 As a matter of fact I've watched her throughout her entire career. Here it just seems instinctive for her to move forward and knock off a volley. I've seen other matches where she has been hesitant to do so.
Does anyone approach the net anymore
female players are much stronger and accurate passers today than 20 yrs ago. im sure that has smthng to do with it
@@Lil08103 yes that true, but also racket and string technology has also played a huge role in players that are able to generate a lot of racket speed and top spin and therefore it's very difficult to play serve and volley in today game.
Seles was just not fit enough. 😕
Not at all
Serena was just different. Her body was structured different. She was a physical specimen.
Is....
you mean a man?
Monica Seles ,Jugo un Partidaso, Estaba Con Todo Williams !!
36:19- Why didn't they take a break after the 1st set?
I LOVE U SERENA
1:34:25 High as a kite
where is the commentary?!?
Эти вильямс = мужики, как можно с ними играть на равных?
Nice to see Serena playing tenis with half of the bodyweight she carry now!
Serena’s tookas is out of control today!
Serena resembles her mom, Venus her dad.
Look at baby Rena 🥰
I love Mama Seles!
Serena loved playing power hitters like Seles
USA does all these they bring new sensation every time they nurture give them citizenship and propognda This time they brought Naomi Osaka Where is this academy who is involved in nurturing these talents From Monica Serena Sharapova to Naomi Osaka These all are USA sponsored players who often played for different countries living in United States
serena was born in america ffs
other three maybe not selses nto sure
what has propoganda got to do with serena
Under her loose-fitting shirt, you can distinctly see that Seles is carrying a roll of fat around her waist. It's not just her stomach pushing through, but a real roll going around the waistline. So forget about chasing wide balls or rushing to the net to catch a drop shot. With all this extra weight slowing her down, she gets tired more easily, and in the 3d set she's reached the limit of her reserve of strength, and practically has not enough left to compete at the same level as in the first set. And those three sets went pretty fast, 1 h 50'. Seles does not like to waste too much time on lengthy rallies. She wants the point over very quickly, in one or two hard shots preferably. Her signature ground shots, solid, heavy, and often superbly angled, remain her main weapons and keep her a redoubtable opponent to any top player. Her serve action is good enough for the occasional ace. However, her famous strokes take a lot of energy out of her, and it shows, as she now makes more unforced errors than when she was No. 1.
All in all, she deserves credit for her determination to continue in competitive tennis at the top level when her mobility, stamina, endurance and fitness are no longer what they used to be. She's already an old trooper, even though she still is only 25. She's now content with reaching quarter-finals and semi-finals (with an occasional appearance in a final, such as the 1998 French Open), and remaining a fixture in the top-10 rankings. Monica Seles won our passionate love ten years earlier as a teenager, and here, as a young veteran, she still commands our affection and admiration, only slightly tinged with regret. It was wonderful to see her youthful smile fleetingly reappear when, at 1:05:37, she retrieved a very wide ball on her forehand side with a magnificent one-handed shot down the line, with the whole stadium erupting into frantic applause. Memory flashes of the incomparable Monica Seles that once was.
Is this a therapy assignment for you?
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 great review
What a comment!
@Amanda Cerny More horsesqueeze from a hapless fanboy. Seles' downfall was her love affair with butter.
@Amanda Cerny "This all happened because of Steffi Graf."
This statement just disqualifies you.
Pierce v Davenport QF please?
Look at where serena standing for monica first serve ... well over baseline
If Monica Sales used to stay healthy then Steffi Graf used to get hardly 7/8 Gland slams
Serena must have felt weird to be playing her tennis idol at the US Open
I remember when thexsister came on the scene andxstartedcwinning WTA changed the rules so that a player had to be in at least certain number of tournaments to be ranked. Serena won grand slalms and a few others and was still not number one
Utter crap.
Players always had to play a certain number of tournaments to be ranked.
Serena became #1 on July 8, 2002. She had won the FO in June (her 2nd slam after USO 1999) and Wimbledon in the first week of July, overtaking her sister (winner of Wimbledon and USO 2001) and Capriati (winner of AO 2002).
So no racist conspiracies by mean whiteys.
Probably the Two Greatest Female Tennis Players Ever, if Seles didn’t get stabbed. I list them as:
1. Serena Williams
2. Martina Navratilova
3. Steffi Graf
4. Margaret Court
5. Chris Evert
6. Helen Wills
7. Monica Seles
8. Suzanne Lenglen
9. Billie Jean King
10. Maureen Connolly
11. Venus Williams
serena one of the greatest-----NOT the greatest....look at stats of graf vs serena above.....not to mention the ped's
And even here people were saying Serena was overweight.
She always was overweight and later became outright fat.
That she could win so much anyway is a testament to her talent - and the terrible competition in the 2010s.
@@carrerau7138 jealous hater.
@@markpeter4304 What?
I just PRAISED Serena, you dolt....