WTA Legend Chris Evert says that Serena Williams could win Wimbledon this year - and adds that there is no clear favorite for the tournament, giving the American, Simona Halep, Garbine Muguruza, and Petra Kvitova all an equal chance of lifting the Venus Rosewater dish.
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"It's the surface that [Serena's] game is suited for, with the power, the big serves," she said when previewing the tournament for ESPN. "She's going to win some free points. It's going to be easier for her on the grass than it was on the clay, where she had to really grind it out.
"I would say with Serena, thinking about this, what chance do I give for her to win the tournament, I give her as much chance as anybody else because the field is completely open. I don't even know who the favorite is. I don't know if the favorite is Halep, Muguruza or Kvitova or Serena? I give all those women the exact same chance to win this tournament. It remains to be seen. She has really embraced motherhood to the maximum. I'm surprised that it hasn't taken the edge away a little bit because I know when I had my first child, I just didn't want to do anything else in life. This is Serena, and she does the unimaginable, the unpredictable. You can never count her out.
"If she's healthy, which she obviously wasn't at the French, and if she's focused, she could play her way into this."
Evert also thinks that the new rivalries developing in women's tennis are entertaining for fans.
"If there's a dominant No.1 player like Serena, people are going to be interested in seeing if she can keep it up. If there's just an abundance of talent, but it's very unpredictable at the top, there's 10 women that can win a Grand Slam, people are going to still watch it because they're going to wonder who is going to pull out winning a Grand Slam.
"It's unpredictable. It's still wonderful to watch. If it's predictable, you're watching a legend, it's still wonderful to watch. I don't think the ratings on TV or the public fascination makes any difference with what's going on in the women's game or the men's game.
"I think rivalries help, and I think having a dominant player helps. I think the unpredictability of seeing who is going to step into the next shoes of being No.1 in the world, being on that platform, I think that helps and that's interesting, too. I'm trying to promote the game, so I think all of it's just worthy of watching."
