Wimbledon and Bias

so what is your point, that the animostity towards the sisters does not exit? is not earned? Is Racial?

another reason they are not liked is that a few years back they got heavily involved with fashion...this did not go down well because it made them look like diva's, and because it was taken as a lack of commitment to the tour....the financial success of the tour. They were expected to help female tennis the way Tiger helped golf, but these girls were never interested.

so what is your point, that the animostity towards the sisters does not exit? is not earned? Is Racial?

another reason they are not liked is that a few years back they got heavily involved with fashion...this did not go down well because it made them look like diva's, and because it was taken as a lack of commitment to the tour....the financial success of the tour. They were expected to help female tennis the way Tiger helped golf, but these girls were never interested.

Like I said earlier in reply to womeone else - it's really all a matter of perspective. Myself, I sort of empathize with the Williams sisters, and I think I can see things from their perspective in some ways. Like for instance, some say they are rude and insular - I don't see them doing anything but looking out for themselves in a sport that was never welcoming to them. They could have reacted to the cold shoulder the other players gave them by trying twice as hard to be friendly and accepted. They didn't - they did what they trained to do - became two of the best ever in women's tennis, and to hell with being accepted or acceptable. Serena had one outburst I would categorize as ugly. Other than that, the attempts to saddle them with some "anti" label is ridiculous, IMO.

Racism and bias is to blame for that one as well, I'm sure

I disagree that tennis was never welcoming to the Williams sisters. At sixteen and having never played in a junior tournment, Venus was hailed as the next great thing and hyped by a tennis community who just loved her story

The Williams sisters rebuffed the tennis community at every turn, Tiger went the other way.

u clearly weren't watching the Williams sisters early on. They caught a lot of grief for no rational reason other than not having come up in the clubby atmosphere of American junior tennis.

Wearing a T-shirt bearing a caricature of himself, Williams managed once again to upstage action on the court Monday. The media section was nearly empty during Andre Agassi's victory, while outside the stadium reporters and cameras surrounded Williams as he spoke.

He said reporters erred by writing about unsubstantiated allegations of match-fixing, and he accused other players on the WTA Tour of jealousy toward his family.

"The girls that play professional tennis are always saying something about me," he said. "The only way those girls get their names in the paper -- they would have to say something about me. Otherwise, no one would write about them."

Venus: When anyone is critical of what I do, I'm just motivated by it. If someone says we're not good enough, then we just do better. If another tennis player says something negative, I say, "That girl will never beat me." We feed off the criticism.

Oprah: I love that. I've never once heard you make negative statements about other players.

Venus: And you won't. I don't have anything against anyone. When I walk onto the court, I'm there to play tennis and nothing else. Serena and I have no issues with anyone.

Serena: We're enjoying ourselves, and there's no time for anything else. You can't just be catty about everything.

Oprah: Do you even care what other people think of you?

Serena: I really don't—as long as my family knows who I am. And I know that a lie can't live forever. As Dr. Martin Luther King once said, "How long? Not long!" Most of the lies people tell about us are eventually washed away, so they don't bother me.

Oprah: Aren't you amazed at the untruths that people can write about you?

Serena: That's why we don't read the articles—I just look at the pictures. The negativity can really bring you down.

Venus: I avoid the hype. When I watch tennis on TV, I hit mute. I don't want to be bothered with the junk.

Oprah: Venus, was there ever a time when you cared what people thought?

Venus: No.

The French Open of 2010 has officially opened and the tennis stars are out of the gate and causing a ruckus and biggest hoopla goes to Venus Williams and her tennis outfit. Although the proposed winner of the French Open is Garros, Venus is getting the news. Venus Williams has always been a well respected and amazing tennis player.

However this year in the French Open of 2010, Venus Williams is stirring up the gossip with her corset-type mini outfit and nude undergarments. Comments are going crazy on this French Open outfit. The mini dress was also causing a lot of stir when it appeared that her breasts were going to slip out of her outfit.

Los Angeles Times had a little chat with the famous tennis player, Venus Williams and this is what she said her outfit is ““about illusion…a lot of my motif this year.” I was not exactly sure what Williams meant in regards to motif, but here is what Answers.com defined motif as “A recurrent thematic element in an artistic or literary work. A dominant theme or central idea.”

Okay so that is how she explains her naked undergarments under a corset-like dress! Now I get it! Venus Williams is not only athletic, but also expressing her artistic abilities to put on her clothes in the morning. Please! This outfit was totally inappropriate for the stuffy Tennis fans to watch and should only be warn in the bedroom or at a strip joint. What do you think about the French Open Outfit of Venus Williams?

The normal choice for a backhand other than slicing it is that outmoded one-hander which you saw Federer lose the US Open last fall on account of, and the more efficient two-hander, but the two hander involves contortionism and even top male contenders like Andy Roddick often don't get the power they should from it.