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The future of tennis is very bleak (or just wildly unpredictable) once Serena + the men's trio retire. The only women who could have been consistently successful like those 4 retired relatively early in their careers.
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Flayer posted:It would be nice to have a middle ground. 3-4 players who form a dominant rivalry with the occasional interloper or up and comer taking a slam. Feels more special that way. Apart from Serena there hasn't been another dominant women's player in the last 10 years, the best winning 2-3 grand slams during that time. It's hard to develop fanbases that way too. In the opposite direction the men's game is beginning to feel even more stale with the last two years of slams just being Djokovic and Nadal swapping wins, especially as they both displays levels of gamesmanship on timings and injury breaks that is quite unlikable. Yeah, this is exactly what I meant in terms of the trouble lurking a few years away in keeping interest and excitement in the pro game. I'm as tired of the Serena/Fed/Djokovic/Nadal parade as anyone else, but I just don't think there are any players coming up behind them that look strong enough to be dominant players. Even if Gauff ends up becoming that type of player, she still needs at least one foil to keep things interesting.
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