Is Victoria Azarenka the female Rafael Nadal?

We can't compare Vika to Nadal because she is not a butt picker !

THE SCREACHING DRIVES ME INSANE!!!!

Wow! Can't imagine she'll butt picking every 2 seconds between points!

THE RETIREMENT QUEEN

And she had the balls to complain to the chair umpire that the fans sitting behind were loud. LMAOSHUT UP! B I T C H.

According to what the coach said: there is a difference between Azarenka & Rafa, the former hits the ball within the court; the latter doing it behind the baseline. In my opinion, the coach should not have made such kind of conclusion.
Fighting spirit, good fitness, quick court coverage are the qualities that any excellent player should have, without these, she/he is hopeless to compete among top 10 players (including women & men). As regards the difference mentioned by the coach, the comparison does not exist unless done artificially by human subjective imagination. As a matter of fact, the back-swing, forward-swing as well as timing of ball-hitting are different between hitting the ball early within the court & beyond baseline. I'd like to say these are different playing style with their specific advantage & disadvantage. For example, can we compare Roger's style with Rafa's? No way, José! Absolutely different kind of style! Just like we people won't make comparison between chickens & ducks.

Hold your horse, dude! It's not even a month since Azarenka has won her first major. While I like her game and of course her wonderful look, it's too early to call her the "Nadal of women circuit"! Just let her play some more majors and watch before writing this type of decisive comments.

Tennis, unfortunately, is a game for the very young. Once you get to your mid-late 20's, it's much harder to stay at the very top. Of course, there are always exceptions like the Williams' sisters, Martina Navratilova and Steffi Graf. But on any given day, almost anyone can win.

I hope she doesn't start picking her butt all match long like Rafa does...

Serena Williams? Who Dat??? Oh wait isn't that the dude that likes to pretend he's a girl and been fooling the idiots of the WTA for years? But he's old now, fat and has no game and is just a player to laugh at and make fun of, you could say he's an #$%$ for sure.

The female Rafa? Really? She JUST won her FIRST slam, and she happened to gain the no. 1 spot by doing so because women's tennis lacks any luster these days. Before that she hadn't done much at all. Talk about jumping the gun!

Here goes the stupid media again. Azarenka and Nadal don't even go in the same sentence together. She couldn't even play Fed Cup the folllowing week after winning the Australian Open. Does that sound like Nadal?? When I think of a number one player, I think of people with tenacity and die hard mentality (Serena, Venus, Kim, Capriata, etc.) and she hasn't earned the right to be mentioned in their company yet. it's too easy to become the number one player in women's tennis, so that ranking holds no credability. I would much rather watch old tennis matches when women players didn't luck up on titles and ranking. No disrespect, but that's how I see it. I believe Azarenka has pulled out of more matches than any other woman on the tour, and somehow she's made it to number one. I am so happy I have real matches with real competitors to watch when I get tired of watching today's aspiring wanna bees.

The world-renowned tennis coach forgot that Clijsters took her to 3 sets. He also didn't seem to realize that Azarenka was known to have mental meltdowns until, as she described, she talked to her grandma last year. I would not laugh as much if our tennis coach compared Serena or Sharapova to Nadal,. These two have proved themselves to be toughest.

There is no doubt that Azarenka has improved her ground speed, consistency and attitude a lot in the past year. If you look at the two GS matches she lost to Li at OZ and the French, she was quite a bit slower on defense back then. At the US open, she did quite well matching Serena's ground strokes in the 2nd set but Serena was still a bit better in almost all aspects. All the GS champions in the past year, Stosur, Li, Kvitova and Azarenka played incredible during the tournament they won. Stosur took out the invincible Serena and Li took out Kvitova, Azarenka, Sharapova and Schiavone in a row. All these women are amazing players. I don't think we can say Azarenka is better these women as of now. She simply had a better time at OZ. Sure she beat an clearly unhealthy Clijsters and a very erratic Sharapova. But what's her chance against a healthy Clijsters or Serena? She will definitely be an undisputed leader when she can take out both.

She has only won one Slam, She didn't even have to go through Serena, Li Na or Kvitova. She still has a lot to prove. Not a fan of Nadal but to compare her to Nadal? Don't you think it is way too early for that?

My prediction is that this back issue will become a chronic problem and keep her from achieving greatness. Anybody notice how she looks when she walks? It's like an ostrich or something. She has a weird body. Kinda lanky to begin with. Something just doesn't look right.

I can live with that. Figureatively speaking of course. ( smile )

Her first win....let us see at the other majors, then we can chat. Serena and Kim are still the best...and they are seniors in the world of tennis. These youngsters need to be ashamed they can't force these girls into retirement.

Please don't even compare her to Nadal until she wins 6 more majors.

She's blonde beautiful and classy what's not to like?? She will make womens tennis worth watching again. In with the blondes out with the boons.

"The fight will be fascinating for a number of reasons, but mainly because though the two have difference games, they compliment each other well."

Mouratoglou will have to explain that statement. I saw very little difference between Sharapova's drubbing by Kvitova at Wimbledon and her drubbing by Azarenka in Australia. The player opposite Sharapova could have been the same person, hitting the same winning strokes.

How are Kvitova's and Azarenka's games different from each other, and how do they complement each other?