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Jeebo

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Mon Dec 23, 2024, 10:50 PM Dec 23

What is the most stunning sports upset ever? [View all]

I just watched on the Tennis Channel as they were replaying the 2016 Australian Open women's championship between Angelique Kerber and Serena Williams, won by Kerber 6-4, 3-6, 6-4. A couple of times the commentators mentioned the previous Grand Slam tournament, the 2015 U.S. Open, when Serena Williams was going for the calendar year Grand Slam. She had already won that year's Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon. It's been a long time since anybody won all four Grand Slams in the same year, men or women. Serena came pretty close in 2015, though, and at the time everybody expected her to accomplish that rare feat. But first she had to deal with Roberta Vinci in one of the U.S. Open semifinals. Everybody was sure Serena would win that match; nobody, myself included, thought Roberta Vinci had any chance at all. But I watched the whole match live anyway. Serena won the first set, and then I thought, ho-hum, here we go. But big surprise, Vinci actually won the second set, forcing a third and deciding set, and then, she won that set too, eliminating Williams 2-6, 6-4, 6-4, and advancing to the final. It was, in my humble opinion, the most stunning, the most incredible sports upset I have ever seen in my 75 years on this planet. Nine years later, I still can't believe it really happened, even though I watched it on TV live with my own eyes.

What do y'all think is the biggest, the most stunning, sports upset of all time?

— Ron

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Miracle on Ice Sneederbunk Dec 23 #1
I agree gab13by13 Dec 23 #5
There is no other. bottomofthehill Dec 24 #11
1980 Bok_Tukalo Dec 23 #2
45 years later and it's still gives me chills. I was in high school at the time and I remember watching the replay yourout Dec 23 #4
That last minute Cirsium Dec 24 #16
Buster Douglas beating Mike Tyson displacedvermoter Dec 23 #3
Punchers chance but can always happen in boxing. Catch someone and follow up. bottomofthehill Dec 24 #12
I bet on Douglas. Midnight Writer Dec 24 #19
Hope you won a pot of money! displacedvermoter Dec 24 #20
1982 Chaminade (Hawaii NAIA school) beat Univ. of Virginia chicoescuela Dec 23 #6
I can come up with a few for different reasons JT45242 Dec 23 #7
New York Jets winning the Superbowl against the Baltimore Colts. Dan Dec 23 #8
Miracle on Ice! Janbdwl72 Dec 23 #9
Appalachian State defeating Univ. of Michigan in football in 2007 MichMan Dec 23 #10
yep Cirsium Dec 24 #15
I think Appalachian State was an FCS Champion before that year plus they're now in FBS AZProgressive Dec 25 #23
I don't know enough to offer forth one, but I very much appreciate this conversation-starter! Drum Dec 24 #13
1969 The Miracle Mets moniss Dec 24 #14
Bryce Drew buzzer beater, murielm99 Dec 24 #17
Buster Douglas beating Mike Tyson was the biggest ever. Period. brush Dec 24 #18
Upset beats Man O War in the Sanford Memorial Stakes... twogunsid Dec 24 #21
Interesting that the horse's name was "Upset" Jeebo Dec 24 #22
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