Henin's level was unbelievable back then.

when it was much harder to win a slam ...

Best Henin ever seen on a hard court

This should have been the final...incredible match

Justine at 5'5 1/2" played like a giant. Killer serve, forehand, volleys, ... and the most incredible backhand in history!

Iconic point from Venus 4:20

One of the best matches ever contested. Even tho Henin's not my favorite, she played exceptional!

Happy to die on this hill. This match is one of the highest quality straight sets wins you'll see. These two did everything but give us a third set. The two they gave us were flat out brilliant. Bloody brilliant!

It's amazing how much faster the courts were even just 12 years ago.

Justine wins the award for participating in the most amazingly competitive and highest quality matches in recent history. She always showed up to play at the highest level.

Venus lost 3 HEARTBREAKING Semifinal matches at the US Open I can remember. 2005 to Kim Clijsters, when served for the match. 2007 against Justine. And 2017 against Sloane Stephens.

Henin was close to intouchable in those years. I have seen her train at the gym once. She worked so hard to get her power and fitness to the highest possible levels to compensate for her stature. Really great match here , with Williams playing some of her best tennis too.

That 1st set was one of the best ever in WTA

How sweet a memory !

Like always Justine is so impressive ! 😍
Comme toujours Justine est tellement impressionnante 😍

Amazing match and amazing player. Both have amazing versatility to their game (I actually think Venus has much more all around game than Serena). Both creates amazing angels, both have great volleys, long rallies, and I both players did amazing slices and lobs. This is a match that have it all.

Level of tennis here far exceeds womens tennis from 2021 us open. Quite unusual to see, but true.

Podemos hablar de el hecho que Justine no solo era la tipica contragolpeadora que se queda detras de la linea sin hacer nada mas que pasar pelotas, a como lo hacen hoy Halep, Kerber, Wozniacki, Sakari, Radwanska. Sino que Justine era agresiva e iba por los puntos, aunque se le hacía dificil dictar los puntos a traves de la potencia, ella proponía con efectos en la pelota, angulos y dropshots y tenía la mirada ganadora. Y lo que mas me encanta es que justine era impecable en la red. Los partidos entre ella y venus eran bonitos porque había variedad desde el fondo de la cancha y ambas hacían magia en la red.

Henin's spatial awareness and accuracy was incredible.

This is one of the greatest tennis matches you’ll ever see from what I consider to be a golden age of women’s tennis. It’s matches and contrasting styles like these that make me play the game. It’s often asked “why use a one-handed backhand when there’s much more power to be gained with two?”  Well you will never see a more pure hitter of the ball than Justin Henin …..period!! Also I was never really a fan of Serena for many reasons but one of them being that I just preferred Venus’ game and variety so much more. To me she had more variety and was the more skilled player that just got over-shadowed by her sister in what must’ve been an almost impossible situation.

In summery, THIS is why I approach the game the way I do.  This is why I’m such a stickler for technique.  This is why taking the time and the painstaking hours to work on mechanics is so important to me because then and only then does it become the worlds most beautiful game and if I can’t at least reach for this, then quite honestly I’d rather quit and do something else with my time.
#AWESOME 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿