Tuesday, July 1, 2008

So England is racist...

PLEASE note the heavy sarcasm used in that title.
Both Serena and Venus Williams were "forced" to play tennis for gobs of money on Court 2 at Wimbledon yesterday, instead of Centre Court or Court 1 at the All England Club. Court 2 is often referred to as the "Graveyard of Champions," and both Venus and Serena had singles matches there as well as their doubles match at the Graveyard.
Both couldn't believe that they would be sent to the Graveyard, while Roger Federer (the #1 Men's seed) and Rafael Nadal (the Men's #2) got to play at Centre and Court 1. Brit Andy Murray even got preferential treatment over the Williams sisters, because, well, he's British.

Defending champ and 4x winner Venus btw is the women's 7 seed while Serena is the No.6 seed. Just noting that fact. (Why so low? they don't play all that often, unless it is a Grand Slam. I guess those fashion shows are a little too important than the Lipton Championships leading up to these events.)

The sisters were disbelieving, even thinking that the schedulers got the court assignments wrong while their mother and coach Oracene Price went one step further. She told reporters, "I guess they wanted to put them on the jinx court so they could lose."

Yep, just a big old conspiracy to get the Williams sisters out Ms. Price. Between this woman and father Richard (wasn't that his name) acting like a crazy man, it is no wonder why everyone outside of America (and even some Americans) find it hard to root for the Williams sisters.

Listen ladies, while your competing in the finals against each other is always exciting (actually not, since in your early matches it always seemed like one was laying down for the other. let's see you two REALLY play!), that was kind of 4 years ago. You know, BEFORE you stopped really caring about tennis and started going into fashion (Venus) and acting (Serena). When you two WANT to play, watch out, but that doesn't come along too often unfortunately. Just saying that as someone who DOES watch a lot of tennis.

If you want to play on Centre Court, then keep winning and you will find yourself there on Saturday, BOTH of you. And PLEASE give us a match for the decades, not the follow-thru of a coin flip that you two did in the locker room before the match.

And PS, you are getting PAID 750,000 Euros to win and 375,000 Euros to finish second (just as much as the gentlemen) so how about we NOT worry about where we are playing and just play.

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