27 year old Lindsay Davenport is surely one of the most outstanding players of the WTA. The girl from California has won so many tournaments (37) and has reached so many successes, its just impossible to write about all of them.

Lindsay, who started playing tennis at the age of 7, has won the US-Open in 98, Wimbledon in 99 and the Australian Open in 2000. She has won the Olympic Gold Medal in 1996 and won the WTA-Championships in 99 in singles and 96, 97 and 98 in doubles.

All that happened before the year 2001, and Lindsay was even able to top that successes! 2001 should become the most successful year for the righthanded player.

In that year, she won amazing 7 Wta-titles, got awarded the WTA-player of the month in Oktober and November and had an overall record of 62 matches won and only 9 losses and reached the WTA-Championship final, where she had to withdraw because of injury.

And guess what? Lindsay did even top that success! She did what no player did before her in the history of tennis! The most amazing success a player can ever reach. A success which is more worth as winning the Grand Slam and the Olympic Gold Medal in one Year!

She beat Jelena Dokic 8 times in a row! She beat her at the Australian Open 4-6, 6-4 and 6-3, and did not allow the hottest player on the tour to win a single set at Wimbledon, Zürich, Linz, Munich, Stanford and New Heaven! By far the greatest success in her career. On top of that Jelena played really good tennis at their latest meeting at New Heaven and lost 6-2 and 6-1!

Today Jelena has again the chance to post her first win over the current no6 of the world. If Jelena should win she will be in the top15 in the 2004 rankings! After only 1 tournament played! Though most other girls already played 3 or 4! Should the semi-finalist of the Australian Open win.... well... 8-0 or 9-0... it doesnt really matter, does it?

Go out there and have fun Jelena!