Not only is the women's game as unpredictable as it has been for many years, with any one of maybe 20 contenders capable of winning any of the majors, but there were moments on Sunday when Williams had to battle harder than normal to get into the match.
But when Apple released the G5 iMac (August 2004), the consumer desktop had become a serious contender, capable of real processing.
Promotion contenders are capable of winning consecutive matches, Leicester have failed to do this on eight occasions.
The most likely potential spoilers in American Pharoah's bid for history include Frosted (fourth in the Kentucky Derby) and Materiality (sixth), the second and third favorites at 5-1 and 6-1 respectively, who are superior closers capable of overtaking fading contenders down the stretch.
And for all the Giants' mistakes in their 16-13 overtime loss, they showed that, if injuries don't riddle their roster, they will be capable of being a contender in what could be a four-team free-for-all in the National Football Conference East, pro football's only division with each of its teams over the.500 mark.
In the next three years, almost all of these contenders will be able show off cars capable of navigating city streets at casual speeds along firmly fixed routes.
Ennis and the other major home contenders all have rivals capable of relegating them to silver, bronze or worse.
In an updated report on the state of the small-satellite launch industry, Carlos Niederstrasser quantifies the increase in potential small launch vehicle contenders, defined as rockets capable of carrying up to 1,000kg to low-Earth orbit.
Notre Dame fan Web sites have been deluged with messages calling for Weis's firing, and newspaper columnists have been questioning whether he is capable of making the Fighting Irish title contenders.
