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Here is the continuation of last fortnight’s in-depth look at the WTA Top 10 of 2000. Last fortnight, we featured the players 1 through 5, and now we will feature the players 6 through 10. And we start with…
Surprisingly, after such a remarkable breakthrough year in 1999, Serena took a small step backwards in the season of 2000. With Serena finishing the 1999 season as the world #4 and the 2000 season as the world #6, many might think that it is really a case of splitting hairs, but that is not so. After her 1999 US Open win, many predicted that Serena would be the one to dominate the women’s tour the following year, but that did not prove to be the case. The season started off on a very shady point as she fought for an ugly three set win in her first round match at the Australian Open against an Australian wildcard recipient, eventually getting routed in the fourth round by Elena Likhovtseva. The best way to describe Serena’s season would be inconsistent and injury prone. Although some of her losses came at the hands of some pretty good players like Tauziat, Pierce, Capriati and even Suarez, these were players that she used to overpower fairly easily in past matches. Tendonitis sidelined her during the claycourt tournaments, however things slowly improved as the season progressed. Serena eventually found some of her best form at Wimbledon when she pummelled the draw in utterly convincing fashion until she met her sister Venus in the semi finals. From that point, Serena got out of her funk and managed to put in some fairly consistent, albeit sporadic, performances. In all the tournaments Serena participated in during the second half of the year, she managed to reach at least the quarter finals, including the title in Los Angeles with wins over Hingis and Davenport and the title in Tokyo. The high point of Serena’s season was probably not in singles at all but in the doubles of the Olympic Games where she won the gold medal for the USA with sister Venus. A foot injury she sustained in the Montreal tournament lingered with her for the rest of the season and caused her to miss all of the indoor season yet she still managed to finish at a lofty rank of #6.
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