Venus Williams vs Anna Kournikova 1998 Lipton Highlights

[htownhomie06]

always thought kournikova was actually under-rated as a player. she had the cerebral, all court game everyone praised hingis for. of course, winning majors helps, lol. still, i remember this tournament. for the row of players she beat just to make this final -- seles, martinez, sanchez, davenport -- using variety it showed she wasn't as one-dimensional as people thought.

[ICANDIGUOUT]

@htownhomie06 she was. you're right, she had an all court game but often she'd get frustrated and start spraying balls...playin faster. great comment.

[rito3101]

Ana fuistes una excelente tenista, llegastes al top 10 donde pocas llegan y ganas muchos titulos en dobles, fueras ganados grand islam en individuales si no te fueras distraido tanto

[yashsaxena1217]

its funny how kournikoba wins most of the points in the highlights but looses the match. lol

[JordanjamesX]

@JonathanH051088 No you love Kournikova a lot of people find Anna to be a disgrace to women's tennis. She NEVER won a damn WTA title how pathetic.

[1978deus]

@JordanjamesX There are 1200 places on the WTA rankings. Most of those women have never won a WTA title either and there's NOTHING pathetic or disgraceful about it.

[dc3fan2003]

the problem with Kournikova is she never improved. her game stayed the same while everyone around her got better and better (i.e. davenport, hingis, the williams sisters, clijsters and henin).

[dinh]

Anna never looked more beautiful and her bh was killer!

[DIANAROSS4EVER]

If only she ad won it...

[ICANDIGUOUT]

@DIANAROSS4EVER I know!!!! I always thought if she'd won it, naturally, the ball would just keep rollin for her. Wins after more wins. But oh well. She still was an awesome player though. :)

[TheMlle228]

omg great quality for 1998 ! Im gonna watch it ;)

[cestmoi974]

C'est intéressant de voir qu'au début de l'année 1998, Kournikova avait un pourcentage de permier service qui tournait autour des 76%, qu'elle ne faisait pas de doubles fautes, et qu'elle faisait des aces... Apres sa blessure au pouce, toutes ces statistiques se sont inversées...Domage car sans cette blessure elle aurait surement cotoyer le top du tennis féminin en simple.

[milot1masha]

Jamie please post this video in the thread on TF that way Kurnikova was overrated!

Great Highlights!

[JamieOwen03]

@milot1masha i did last night ;)

[eizyaws]

@milot1masha Are you serious? Okay, clearly Venus has a bum knee right here. She's playing at 40% at the most, maybe worse. And Anna STILL lost! C'mon!

[ajkh888]

@eizyaws blame it on a bum knee whatever. Look at the people winning majors today and anna had a much better game than them. Anna played in the prime of the venus sisters and so many other great players.The competition was so much greater back then

[eizyaws]

@ajkh888 I agree with you there. The comp back then was Awesome!

[aa330]

@ajkh888 I don't know that she would win majors today, but she would definitely be top 10. I mean most of the WTA doesn't know what to do when a slice comes at them.

[juju1305]

@ajkh888 I agree. In the late 90s early 2000s, the top players of the 90s were still around, Seles, Novotna, Graf, Sanchez Vicario, Martinez, Pierce while new players had also established themselves as leaders on the tour, Hingis, Davenport, or were about to do so, the williamses. That definitely brought more density to the tour.