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09 Jul 19
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All we get is the greatest player ever stuff. What about the vile tirades which have polluted the sport throughout her career? Without doubt one of the worst behaved individuals, male or female, in the history of top level sport. The worst of role models.
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Just be thankful you are not married to her
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First player of anywhere near her level that she has met so far and the result is still in doubt.
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The serial disgraces of Serena Williams have been airbrushed from BBC history.
Williams is lucky not to be on a long ban following her many outbursts, especially at the US Open. Listening to the BBC's coverage however, a stranger to tennis might conclude Williams was a living saint. |
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They are to scared of her ...she would chin anyone who spoke out against her
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I've heard there's going to be more transgender (male-to-female) players in women's tennis, it would be interesting to see if Serena ever gets to play against one as she's quite muscular.
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Serena is an amazing athlete and person. thanks Serena!
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Shame Mike Tyson wasn't a tennis player, he could have had a snip, bought a wig and taken a ride on the gravy train without the need for any ear biting.
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she's won 23 slams fairly, I think that's the most important thing to remember
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She's been fined 8 grand for damaging a court with her racquet.
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and Fognini was fined like 3k for saying he wished that a bomb would blow up the court he was playing on
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would blow up the All-England Club*
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Joined: 05 Oct 11 | Topic/replies: 8,446 | Blogger: differentdrum's blog
All we get is the greatest player ever stuff. What about the vile tirades which have polluted the sport throughout her career? Without doubt one of the worst behaved individuals, male or female, in the history of top level sport. The worst of role models. Share| report block user | Shut up you sad jealous tool. |
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Yes, her punishment was 'shameful' in that anything short of a lifetime ban was lenient. The comments are further evidence that she is completely deluded.
As for looking 'amazing' as the reporter suggested on today's Breakfast yes she does look amazing but not in a positive sense. She looks like a grotesque body builder. Is that a look women really want to aspire to? |
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differentdrum 10 Jul 19 09:03 Joined: 05 Oct 11 | Topic/replies: 8,447 | Blogger: differentdrum's blog Yes, her punishment was 'shameful' in that anything short of a lifetime ban was lenient. The comments are further evidence that she is completely deluded. As for looking 'amazing' as the reporter suggested on today's Breakfast yes she does look amazing but not in a positive sense. She looks like a grotesque body builder. Is that a look women really want to aspire to You are utterly pathetic; Dopapova is that you? |
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the whole Murrena thing is getting a bit cringey now, but I couldn't help noticing she is carrying Murray in these matches. He looks miles off it, while SW is crushing it, esp those returns.
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A disaster for the BEEB with the Dream Team be smashed to fook early ,Can only hope the Big Unit makes the Final to soften
the Blow , Missed the game , was there any aggro post game ? |
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nah, was all played in good spirits. Murray just couldn't cut it against an experienced doubles campaigner
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Murray is miles off it. He might be moving better (pain free) but his timing isn't there, his serving and especially his returning is nowhere near his normal level.
I think the Queens victory gave people a false sense of where he is, if you look back it now you'll probably have to admit Lopez was the reason they won there. |
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Even today, BBC Breakfast leads with, 'It wasn't to be for Serena…' It's still all about her, while Barker was making a big deal, post-final, about Serena coming back from having a kid and having an injury earlier in the season for reasons she didn't win. They did similar last year when Kerber thrashed her. The Serena love-in is pitiful, embarrassing, unjustified and totally insulting to all the other top women's players. They also lazily wheel out the phrase 'The greatest female tennis player of all-time' or 'the greatest sportswoman of all-time'. She really isn't.
For one, Margaret Court has won the most singles titles among the women. Also, Serena has only 1 Slam more than Graf who retired aged 30, & only played in 54 Slams compared to Serena's 72 and rising. Graf also won the 'Golden Slam' something Serena has never achieved, but the BBC wouldn't drill down into any of this stuff because it panders to once-a-year tennis fans, and its eulogising of Serena suits it PC agenda. The sooner, Barker and the rest of them are put out to grass and lose rights, the better. Their coverage is ill-informed and nauseating to sit through. And before any Serena apologists reply, in my view they are guilty of the exact same thing with Federer. You'd be forgiven for thinking no other male or female tennis players even existed. And the Wimbledon committee are equally biased catering to the Pimms-drinking, middle Englanders with the scheduling - Halep should prepare to play next year on Court 2 - same as Kerber and Muguruza as defending champions, while Serena will play every match on the showcourts. Hell, playing on an outside court for Federer or Serena williams means being put on Court 1. |
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Spot on Johnny.
I've always said Steffi is the greatest player. She certainly had the most complete game. She was more dominant and achieved more in her much shorter career than SW. |
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Majority of people watching Wimbledon are casual fans and want to hear about and see the big names which is why they get most attention, it's just BBC given most people what they want, likes of Federer and Williams pay the bills, so to speak.
Court's record is not the real record, she won more than half of her slams in the Amateur era and 11 Aussie titles when it wasn't an international event like it is now and with 1 less round played, it's basically comparing two different sports from then and now, Serena has the Open era record which is what really counts, Graf was great but also took advantage of Monica Seles missing almost 3 seasons because of her injury when she was the dominant force before that. She was never the same player again. The record Serena is chasing is more for statistical purposes, she really doesn't need to. You can also argue that it's much more difficult to win slams in your 30's which it is and Serena has won around 10 of them! mostly competing against prime 20 something year olds. She did win the career golden slam, won singles gold in London, doubles gold as well. Established and most successful names will always play on showcourts to appeal to the wider public, Serena's 23 slams and overall career far outweighs any other current and active player. Recently slam winners and world number 1's change so often it doesn't really carry the same weight as it used to, you need to be dominated to become a household name that transcends the sport and the likes of Halep/Kerber/Garbine, as big as they are in the tennis world, are not big outside of it. |
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The BBC are probably the best example of 'fans with typwriters'/cheerleader type journos and presenters. They are supposed to be impartial but instead they see it as their job to eulogise the top players, as if that's what the public want them to do, to be told how great a player is repeatedly, instead of forming their own opinion.
It is nauseating but not confined to tennis - they are as bad during the Olympics with their #BoltDown clock before Usain Bolt races and even worse when it comes to British athletes like Farah. They always avoid the difficult questions like how can a guy at 37 play to the physical level of Federer when he was considered past it and not up to the physical task over 5 sets only a few years ago in his early 30s? How can Djokovic go from being a physical weakling in his early career to a 5 hour beast in his later career. How can Farah, Froome, Wiggins transform themselves in their mid to late twenties and into their 30s into completely different athletes when they never showed those abilities as younger athletes? Don't expect to hear anything other than guff from them. It is not harder to win slams in your 30s any more. |
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they allow players to do what they like, e,g just get a racquet with a bigger head.
its the equivalent of making the pockets much wider on a snooker table, and yet the viewing public is expected to believe players are just better, playing at a higher standard now the money men have made a mug out of sport |
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how many would navratilova or evert won if the other didn't exist ? serena has had no proper rival in her era. you'd struggle to put the likes of henin, sharapova, clijsters et al in the top 20 women of all time
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