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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting thread, stats are very helpful! Did any of these player serve as well as Serena?[/quote] The "power server" type of female player is relatively new. Although there were a few big servers in the past, the Williams sisters revolutionized serving for women's tennis. Monica Seles, Jennifer Capriati, Lindsay Davenport in the 1990s were the predecessors to the Williams sisters (and Davenport was only a few years ahead of the Williams). Neither Seles nor Capriati had a particularly strong serve, both of them added power to the baseline game, but not to the serve. One of the bigger servers before the Williams sisters was Brenda Schultz-McCarthy who played from the mid-80's until the late 90's. But the rest of her game was relatively average (kind of like a predecessor to Sabine Lisicki) so she wasn't particularly noteworthy. [/quote]
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