| User | Comment |
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llamamama  | | posted 23-Mar-2006 11:39pm |
Me..
Or, who's the oldest one on there? Then her.. |
| darkshadowsseeker | | posted 24-Mar-2006 12:11am |
I don't follow or have an interest in tennis. |
| RGirl | | posted 24-Mar-2006 12:22am |
Other. Billie Jean King. Not the prettiest, but she whipped some men's tennis star ass!! 
"Despite King's achievements at the world's biggest tennis tournaments, she is best remembered by the public for her win over a 55-year-old man in 1973. Bobby Riggs had been a top men's player in the 1930s and 1940s in both the amateur and professional ranks. He then went on to become a well-known tennis hustler who made a living promoting himself and playing in challenge matches. In 1973, he took on the role of male chauvinist and, claiming that the women's game was so inferior to the men's game even a 55-year-old like him could beat the current top female players, he challenged Margaret Court to a match and beat her 6-2, 6-1. King, who previously had rejected challenges from Riggs, then accepted a lucrative financial offer to play him at the Houston Astrodome in Texas on September 20, 1973, in an event dubbed the "Battle of the Sexes." The match garnered huge publicity. In front of 30,492 spectators and a worldwide television audience estimated at 50 million people in 37 countries, King beat Riggs 6-4, 6-3, 6-3. The match is considered a very significant event in developing greater recognition and respect for women's tennis. King said, "I thought it would set us back 50 years if I didn't win that match. It would ruin the women's [tennis] tour and affect all women's self-esteem." |
| Amanda | | posted 24-Mar-2006 12:45am |
I'm not a tennis fan, so I have no opinion. |
| Hans | | posted 24-Mar-2006 3:59am |
Steffi Graf in her best days. (Is that national pride?? I hope not.) |
Maarten   | | posted 24-Mar-2006 5:17am |
Martina Navratilova obviously.
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bill   | | posted 24-Mar-2006 7:07am |
Martina Navratilova - I can't believe she wasn't on your list! |
| Tommyturtle40 | | posted 24-Mar-2006 7:41am |
I am not really sure, but I do think that women tennis players are pretty sexy, and i like the way they look in those tennis outfits. |
| mve17 | | posted 24-Mar-2006 8:07am |
At school I was a bit of a whizz at tennis  |
| blondie20 | | posted 24-Mar-2006 9:01am |
I don't know |
| labjog | | (reply to RGirl) posted 24-Mar-2006 9:18am |
> Other. Billie Jean King. Not the prettiest, but she whipped some men's
> tennis star ass!!
>
> "Despite King's achievements at the world's biggest tennis tournaments,
> she is best remembered by the public for her win over a 55-year-old
> man in 1973. Bobby Riggs had been a top men's player in the 1930s
> and 1940s in both the amateur and professional ranks. He then went
> on to become a well-known tennis hustler who made a living promoting
> himself and playing in challenge matches. In 1973, he took on the
> role of male chauvinist and, claiming that the women's game was so
> inferior to the men's game even a 55-year-old like him could beat
> the current top female players, he challenged Margaret Court to a
> match and beat her 6-2, 6-1. King, who previously had rejected challenges
> from Riggs, then accepted a lucrative financial offer to play him
> at the Houston Astrodome in Texas on September 20, 1973, in an event
> dubbed the "Battle of the Sexes." The match garnered huge publicity.
> In front of 30,492 spectators and a worldwide television audience
> estimated at 50 million people in 37 countries, King beat Riggs 6-4,
> 6-3, 6-3. The match is considered a very significant event in developing
> greater recognition and respect for women's tennis. King said, "I
> thought it would set us back 50 years if I didn't win that match.
> It would ruin the women's [tennis] tour and affect all women's self-esteem."
I remember that!!! Yes she is the best,put Riggs in his place. |
paulyw   | | posted 24-Mar-2006 10:47am |
I don't know. I am not into tennis. |
| Enheduanna | | posted 24-Mar-2006 12:08pm |
I don't know enough about tennis to say, but I imagine that, like actors, it would be difficult to pick just one. |
| cerealkiller | | posted 24-Mar-2006 1:26pm |
What about Billie Jean King? Never heard of most of these people. |
| bcollins | | posted 24-Mar-2006 2:59pm |
I don't watch, care about or follow tennis. |
| ElvisFan67 | | posted 24-Mar-2006 7:09pm |
Steffi Graf and Chris Evert are my all-time favorites, but I think that Anna girl (can't spell her last name) is the sexiest.  |
| madhatter | | posted 25-Mar-2006 2:17am |
I don't know honestly |
| kirst | | posted 25-Mar-2006 2:56am |
Martina Navratilova
Can't believe she wasn't one of the options.
No Billie Jean King, either. |
| ROCKMAN | | posted 25-Mar-2006 8:32am |
I've always liked Tracy Austin, but she's probably not the over-all best ever. I don't watch enough tennis to really know. |
| hypersky | | posted 25-Mar-2006 2:47pm |
Where's Martina Navratilova in the list? She is without a doubt the all-time best women's tennis champion. |
| gothguy | | posted 25-Mar-2006 4:13pm |
Martina Hingis has a set of bewbs that i would die for |
| wendekroy | | posted 25-Mar-2006 7:36pm |
I don't know who is best but how could one post a list and leave off Billy Jean King, Martina Navratilova and so on ...? There are elements other than US Open wins which contribute to ones greatness as a player. |
| jduPres | | posted 26-Mar-2006 5:26pm |
I don't know. I've never followed tennis and don't know who most of these people are. |
| busybaker | | posted 26-Mar-2006 6:46pm |
I couldn't tell you as I've never seen any of these women play. I've only seen one tennis match in my life and that was between Billy Jean King and Bobby Riggs. The only reason I saw that is because my dad was watching it and I happened to be in the living room at the time. |
| cloudhugger | | posted 27-Mar-2006 1:18pm |
Martina ...Navitro...I don't recall how to spell her last name. Why is the best tennis player ever not on this list!!! |
| cloudhugger | | (reply to Maarten) posted 27-Mar-2006 1:19pm |
That's it! I couldn't remember how to spell her last name. Did it turn you on as much as me when she kissed her lover right there in the front row!!! after she won!!! |
| cloudhugger | | (reply to labjog) posted 27-Mar-2006 1:22pm |
That was intense. I was young, but I truly understood the significance of it all. She did take one for the team, and I honor her for that. A weaker woman would have folded under the pressure, but Riggs only fueled the fire, that arrogant sexist pig  |
| cloudhugger | | (reply to hypersky) posted 27-Mar-2006 1:24pm |
> Where's Martina Navratilova in the list? She
> is without a doubt the all-time best women's tennis
> champion.
WOOHOOOO YES!!!
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| cloudhugger | | (reply to wendekroy) posted 27-Mar-2006 1:26pm |
> I don't know who is best but how could one post
> a list and leave off Billy Jean King, Martina
> Navratilova and so on ...? There are elements
> other than US Open wins which contribute to ones
> greatness as a player.
I hope the survey creator has noticed by now. Those two are definetly the best, and both of them helped made the world a better place.
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| Maarten |
No, Martina Navratilova never turned me on.
Did you know Martina Hingis was named after Navratilova? |
| cloudhugger | | (reply to Maarten) posted 27-Mar-2006 7:56pm |
Yes, now that you mentioned it, I remember that. |
| jettles | | posted 28-Mar-2006 6:31am |
martina navratilova or billie jean king.
billie jean king did more for the womens' game than any one else and martina did more to change the level of play than any other player. |
| autumnlight | | posted 28-Mar-2006 7:13am |
I'm not enough of a fan of tennis to say. |
| Jody | | posted 28-Mar-2006 12:37pm |
Billie Jean King. |
| gambler | | posted 29-Mar-2006 6:05pm |
Other, Martina Navratilova |
| wendekroy |
I can't tell you how many times I had to read over the choices to be able to believe this list excluded those two ... maybe others as well. I don't know much about tennis - but I grew up less than a block away from the old tennis stadium in Forest Hills, NY where they held the US OPEN until about 78. I was in elementary school in the years just prior. Each year when school began for us it included walking through the limo lined streets and sometimes getting people to give us their stubs after school then going in for the action. We hung out near the club house driveway in the evenings and we'd see them all leaving- Billy Jean, Jimmy Connors, AND SO ON!!! And THEN we did our homework! It was great - so to me, leaving those players off the list felt a little personal! |
| cloudhugger | | (reply to wendekroy) posted 2-Apr-2006 4:18pm |
They laid out the groundwork for the greats to follow. How many heard about Ashe. Argumentably the best, but he was African American, so was easily forgotten in the history archives. As with Billy Jean King, being ahead of her time hurt her in the popularity circle because she was not acting as she 'should'. If it wasn't for her, and the harrasement from her nemesis 'what's his name' it would have been probably another twenty years before women sports would be taken seriously. I honor her tenacity and tolerance for society ignorance and the price she paid. I even heard my parents complain aobut how she didn't act as society expected. Jimmy Conners also became benign because he was so good, his competition didn't catch up to him till he was almost retired. They all made tennis the super sport it is today. |
| captainchaos |
I don't watch tennis. |
