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Message: [QUOTE="CamrnCrz1974, post: 2378742, member: 1052"] When making these types of lists, there will ALWAYS be very deserving people left off. The debate is too difficult. For example, how do you compare sports? How do you compare tennis to basketball? Football to swimming? Individual sports to team sports? Olympic sports to professional sports? Second, how do you compare players across eras - e.g., picking Bjorn Borg over Pete Sampras? Sampras never won the French; Borg never won the US Open. Borg had a wooden racket; Sampras did not. Bjorg was the master of the clay/grass combo (French Open and Wimbledon), Sampras the master of the grass/hardcourt combo (Wimbledon and the US Open). Bjorg has 11 GS titles; Sampras has 14. Very difficult to choose. Third, how do you compare the accomplishments in women's sports to men's sports, across the eras? Cheryl Miller, for example, did not have the benefit of a professional league like the WNBA, as her male counterparts did with the NBA. And then try doing that across sports - e.g., should Simone Biles be on the list ahead of Allen Iverson? Fourth, how do you account for different types of greatness? Billie Jean King won 39 Grand Slam titles (but "only"12 in singles). But with Billie Jean King, there is no WTA Tour. There is no equal prize money at Grand Slam tournaments. There is no prime time viewing of women's tennis on major/cable networks. There is greatness on the court/field, and there is greatness off of the court/field; King's greatness off the court had an historical impact on it. One thing that I appreciated was that there nine women listed (to forty-one men). Yes, the ratio is not great, but in previous years, lists listed maybe five out of one hundred; here, we have nine out of fifty. [USER=7548]@eebmg[/USER] , please see my previous points in response to your comment. I am not sure *how* one could rank the players, given how difficult it was to even come up with a list. I was really happy that two of the most prominent female athletes in the world - Serena Williams and Diana Taurasi - were mentioned so early in the article. [/QUOTE]

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