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06/29/09
Serena did not play on the show courts last week because she plays doubles the same day. If she were to play on a show court, she would, most likely, not make her doubles match.
It's men, ladies, mens. Please don't suggest that change. It's not some form of seximsm, it's common sense.
Also, the host country of a slam, usually makes sure it's players play at least once on a show court. Most of the time these players are lower ranked and will be out the first week, unlike the top players.
I didn't hear either sister complaining when they were placed on the show courts when they did not deserve to be, but since they were "young and pretty" that's where they played.
Serena's Federer answer is her dodging the reporters' asking her how does it feel to be an older player.
Because this year's crop of women suck, no woman should be allowed to play on the show courts for 2010.
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Remember that Wimbledon and the French Open have no night play.
I'm not making any excuses for the officials. Many of the women that played on Center Court should not have played there. It was treated by the crowd as break time.
Seriously, the women's tour is sad and should be forced to play at a youth center in 2010.
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And not to beat a dead horse but putting players like Azarenka, Cristea, Wozniacki, etc on center court means that more people get to see the new up and coming players (more people meaning the tv audience). Unlike US Open coverage, which if that's the only tennis you watch, would lead you to believe that the only players in the entire WTA tour are Venus and Serena.
Ugh. Sorry. The real travesty of this tournament is how little airtime my boyfriend Novak Djokovic is getting. Write about THAT and I'll be happy.
06/29/09
But I also am of the opinion that the Djoker is completely overrated, so I'll just note that we appear to have different perspectives on the issue and leave it at that.
06/29/09
Anyways, back to enjoying some interesting tennis, and ignoring Suzy Kolber as much as possible.
06/29/09
But apparently it seems you just couldn't resist. Now what have we learned?
Anything?
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If you can.
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You go, girl. Classy and funny.
06/29/09
BLECH.
That is all.
06/29/09
I always found the Rafa/Roger stereotyping off putting, the precise swiss guy and the passionate spanish guy.
Also on ESPN they had some weird promo things for some players, Sherapova's was like a ballerina and Djokovic's was like jaunty eastern european music. I think they should just stick to showing/talking about the actual tennis being played.
06/29/09
(I don't know what country you're in or network you watch, but of late I've taken to watching on ESPN Vivo. The commentary is in Spanish, which can be annoying if you don't speak it, and a touch Latin-centric, which can be annoying if you do and are not partial to the players, but since I would watch JMDP, La Mano Piedra, and the entire Armada stand there and read the phone book if they couldn't play tennis it does not bother me.)
06/29/09
Don't get me started on that impeccable, healthy body either.
Wimbledon FAIL.
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Where's the problem?
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Venus is the DEFENDING CHAMPION. She SHOULD have been seeded first. Not Safina.
06/29/09
These guys are equal opportunity offenders.
06/29/09
You're presuming that they would be fine with a black athlete as long as they were "hot" enough. I don't share that presumption. I think the Williams sisters' blackness is probably what makes them "unworthy" in the eyes of the AEC.
But even giving the AEC the benefit of the doubt, they're still pigs for keeping the top women athletes off the centre court because they've determined they aren't "good looking" enough for the TV audience.
06/29/09
*rolls eyes hard at you because sometimes you say crap just to "incite debate"*
The athletes the Daily Fail write racist articles about don't have to be American black.
It won't take a lot of digging to turn up the snide nauseating "noble savage" crap descriptions of more than one of the Spanish players last year (and not just Rafa, no).
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If you have knowledge to the contrary, enlighten me. I am just pointing out that there may be other reasons for the Williams sisters exclusion. While racism may very well may be the root cause, the article doesn't lead me in that direction necessarily.
This roo character has obviously seen something, but I have not . . . I can take her word for it, but limited to the article at hand, I can't necessarily make the "its just because their racists call."
06/29/09
I don't think it's much of a leap to assume that when someone says "good looks are a factor" that their definition is "conventional good looks." I actually think the exclusion of the Williams sisters points quite plainly to that. Venus is the defending champ, and quite a beautiful woman on top of that, but she is not the right kind of beauty, apparently. What is the right kind of beauty? And why else would they be excluded from center court? Again-- we're talking two of the most famous players in the world, who played each other in the finals last year, and are currently the No. 2 & 3 players in the world.
I don't think it is a conscious choice to keep the black women off the center court, I think it's a symptom of the way we define beauty. And I don't think just because the spokesmen for the All England Club didn't say "We want to keep our center court white, thin, and blonde" that means there wasn't ingrained racism involved in the decision.
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We can do it in French and say that really, Roland Garros is the classiest tournament now.
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It is really blatantly obvious what is going on here, you don't need an article to tell you if you pay any attention to the tv etc in the UK.
06/29/09
Who ELSE belongs at Center Court, pray tell?
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