http://www.oregonlive.com/the-spin-of-the-ball/index.ssf/2013/07/why_serena_williams_will_have.html

Serena Williams, at 31, is the best player on the WTA tour by far. She's won 16 major singles titles. Her biggest "rivals" at the moment, Victoria Azarenka and Maria Sharapova, have a combined 3-25 record against her. It has become conventional wisdom that she is the best woman to ever pick up a fuzzy yellow ball.

But is it so cut and dried?

The case can be made for Serena as the best ever, and it has been, but it's actually still a rather tough sell.

In 2003, when the American had the "Serena Slam" in her pocket and was going for the real Grand Slam, the diminutive Justine Henin beat her at the French Open. That match is best remembered for Henin's questionable sportsmanship when she refused to acknowledge that she had disrupted Serena's service motion by raising her hand. But it's difficult to argue that Serena would have won if only Henin had admitted to her etiquette transgression. The fact is, Serena was at her very best -- and it wasn't enough to beat Henin. The little Belgian would prove four years later that she didn't need gamesmanship to be the best in the game. In 2007, she topped Serena in succession at the French Open, Wimbledon and the U.S. Open, slamming the door shut -- or so we thought at the time -- on the Serena era.


HENIN HAD HER FUCKING NUMBER WHEN SERENA WAS AT HER BEST AND IN HER PRIME....Serena was not the all out favorite when henin was playing, and in those years serena in her PRIME had issues and that was when the media was getting in her ass.....