At least she’s honest
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- September
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Serena Williams was hard to deal with last night in a press conference she said she only attended in order to avoid a WTA fine if she skipped it. That doesn’t ring true considering the fine would be about $10,000, which is about one-tenth of what she earned at this tournament alone, not to mention an estimated $10 million in endorsements a year.
But the rest of what she said was refreshingly honest.
I’m going to act like I’m not a reporter for a minute, and think of what it must’ve felt like to fall apart in the second set against a maddeningly consistent Justine Henin. You might be pissed at yourself, at her, at the waiter who didn’t put enough ice in your diet coke at lunch, at your slightly crazy-intense father for drilling you on a pavement court for six hours at a time before you turned 10… whatever.
Then you are under a spotlight. Know-it-all reporters who haven’t perspired in the last six months (unless you count the cold sweat when they realized all the chips were gone from the free buffet in the media center) are asking you about your fitness.
Enter mean Serena. Her last defense was gone and she said just what she thought. Maybe it wasn’t nice or polite, but it was real and raw and it wasn’t the canned “give her a lot of credit” crap we get from other players on the tours. It wasn’t a warm and fuzzy lovefest like when Andre Agassi retired last year, but that’s where Serena is in her career.
I’d be more worried if she didn’t care.
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on Wednesday, September 5th, 2007 at 4:46 pm by Jane McManus.
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