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Women’s Tennis – 2011 Review and 2012 Preview - 6 Nov 2011

Women’s Tennis – 2011 Review and 2012 Preview There are more tennis players and more money than ever in the women’s game.   But as 2011 ends there is no clear #1.   Tennis is still the best paid professional sport for women.   Perhaps all that money and all the players it attracts mean that parity at the top and not dominance will be the rule for the foreseeable future.   Is the talent so deep that no one woman can dominate? Historically, there has usually been a dominant champion.   Starting with the international era after WW1, the baton passed from Lenglen to Wills to Marble to Betz, then to Connolly, Gibson, Bueno, Court, King, Evert, Navratilova, Graf.   Admittedly, there was a fuzzy period after Betz in the late 40’s and early 50’s when Louise Brough, Doris Hart, and Margaret Osborne DuPont battled for supremacy.   Things also got complicated after Graf.   Martina Hingis spent the better part of 4 years at #1 on the computer (over 200 weeks), but after missing a Grand Slam by on