Serena Williams: If I Were A Man, I’d Be Considered The Greatest. This Is Untrue. Here’s Why.

Serena Williams is the greatest female tennis player of all time, bar none. The 35-year-old Women’s Tennis Association legend has won 38 major titles, 22 in singles. She has held all four major titles at the same time – twice. Her dominance has extended across two decades. She’s got a tremendous serve, her groundstrokes are extraordinary, and she can play from net to baseline.

She’s also a woman.

This, says Serena, is the reason that she isn’t in the conversation for greatest tennis player of all time. “I think if I were a man, I would have been in that conversation a long time ago,” William told rapper Common on ESPN:

I think being a woman is just a whole new set of problems from society that you have to deal with, as well as being black, so it’s a lot to deal with – and especially lately. I’ve been able to speak up for women’s rights because I think that gets lost in color, or gets lost in cultures. Women make up so much of this world, and, yeah, if I were a man, I would have 100 percent been considered the greatest ever a long time ago….It’s very challenging because sometimes when things are blatantly wrong and blatantly unfair and blatantly racist or sexist, I just have to go and put on a brave smile and not let anyone know how I feel on the inside so they don’t get that satisfaction even though on the inside I would be dying.

The Washington Post celebrated this: “Her game is based on power and so is her life.”

Okay, then.

Let’s ask the question: if Serena Williams were a man, would she be the greatest?

No.

No, she wouldn’t.

That’s not because she’s not a great tennis player. She is, as stated, the best female tennis player in history. That’s because if she were stacked up against the men, she’d get bulldozed. Her fastest recorded tennis serve was 129 mph, which was the fastest women’s serve of all time for nearly a decade. The fastest recorded men’s serve is 163 mph. In the 2015 Grand Slams, Serena’s average serve traveled 109 mph; Novak Djokovic averaged 117 mph, and Andy Murray averaged 114 mph. Experts have also come up with a Universal Tennis Rating, which rates all players on a single scale. Djokovic ranks at 16.39, the highest in the world; Serena clocks in at 13.36, putting her on par with a mid-ranked male college tennis player.

That’s not a rip on Serena. She’s an incredible talent and an amazingly hard worker. She plays tennis better than any woman ever has. But the leftist tendency to equate male athletic prowess with female athletic prowess isn’t feminist, it’s stupid. Women on average cannot throw as fast as men; the average woman throws a baseball slower than 998 out of 1,000 men. Women cannot carry as heavy objects, on average, as men. There’s a reason that the Australian national women’s soccer team lost 7-0 to a bunch of high school boys. A good WNBA team would be beaten by a top level high school boys team.

One of the great tragedies of modern feminism is the movement away from women’s equality and toward mythical female sameness. Women are better than men at some things, including important areas of doctoring. But that doesn’t mean that men and women are the same. They aren’t. And it’s counterproductive to imply sexism on the part of those who refuse to accept fiction as fact.