I’ve compared Flavs to Batman, a stretch, but a fair comparison. But I think if you were to call one WTA player a superhero, it would probably be Sam. She looks totally normal, and is quite funny off court. Hell, she looks quite pretty in her TTV mugshot. But on court? First of all, she’s jacked up. As all hell. And her sunglasses, hat, and tied back hair all create her epic disguise (those sunglasses just ooze badassery), and she serves big, and is willing to track down any ball. She also doesn’t really follow through on her serve, which is weird as hell.

And then she defeats the “real” number 1, ReRe in the Stanford quarters. She came out firing in the first set, going up a double break 4-1 before you could barely blink. But Serena hasn’t won 4 bazillion matches by accident, and it is indeed never over till its over. She fought back and won the second set. The weird thing is that she couldn’t, and didn’t really seem to bother to keep the momentum going, and Stosur fought back and took the third and the match. Its weird, usually Serena unleashes her, what I have come to call, her “inner bitch rage”. And as much as I don’t really like Rena, its scary as fuck, and kind of awesome. Its uber competitive. It comes out in slams, and I also have vivid memories of it coming out against Jay-Z in Miami when she was having troubles. It didn’t make an appearance today. And its more or less the single reason Serena isn’t the REAL number one. She just didn’t become super competitive, and as much as she cares or doesnt care, its points lost, and its the few points that Dina often pulls out that keeps her a step ahead of Rena. Sammy S will play the winner of Mono/JJ, which I’m going to make a post of, and at the moment, its looking like Mono…