Not for the first time Serena couldn't handle an ass whooping on court.
I'm just surprised the race card wasn't played.
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Not for the first time Serena couldn't handle an ass whooping on court.
I'm just surprised the race card wasn't played.
All of this. He rarely takes a medical time-out when he’s winning, but very regular when he’s struggling. I believe Murray even passed comment on it a few years ago. It’s at best shady gamesmanship, at worst a form of cheating. He spat the dummy when he was refused by an umpire at one match.
And as you’ve said, could barely complete a 5 set match, then suddenly became some kind of iron man overnight.
Indeed. And the sudden transformation in his fitness levels has given rise to a lot of speculation down the years. I know both he and Nadal were alleged to have been serving 'silent' drugs bans while supposedly injured, with Nadal successfully suing for defamation.
Andy Murray and Federer are the only top players I can recall actually speaking out about drugs in tennis. I remember Murray drawing some angry words from Boris Becker (who was Djokovic's coach at the time) when he said this:
"Have I ever been suspicious of someone? Yeah. You hear things. It’s harder to tell in our sport as people can make big improvements to a stroke or start serving better because they have made technical changes. If it’s purely physical and you’re watching someone playing six-hour matches over and over and showing no signs of being tired, you’d look at that.”
Monster??? Wtf...Williams has been one of the greatest athletes of her generation....she has had a handful of issues during a 20 year professional career. Characters like McEnroe and Kyrgios are viewed as "interesting" when they do it..she may have reacted poorly here..but she clearly felt aggrieved.
She also put her arm around her opponent after and asked the crowd to appreciate the deserved winning performance of her opponent. How you can call he graceless is beyond me
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There's a race 'row' surfacing now:
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/vi...609d89ac521d9f