tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-229616072187725718.post7060464026810645318..comments2024-03-11T05:26:34.143-05:00Comments on Women Who Serve: Still crazy after all these yearsDianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07124489754017593105noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-229616072187725718.post-906746060570389552009-01-29T12:28:00.000-06:002009-01-29T12:28:00.000-06:00Oh gosh, I sounded pretty outraged in that last co...Oh gosh, I sounded pretty outraged in that last comment which I didn't mean to. I think they should see the forecast at the very beginning of the day and either put it on before any of the matches have started so it makes it all fair. It's a drastic change becuase it's like changing the match from an outside to an inside court, and the players have not trained for those conditions.Sashahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10046481676701902506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-229616072187725718.post-64916135183828995682009-01-28T17:30:00.000-06:002009-01-28T17:30:00.000-06:00I was pretty outraged about the roof, too, Sasha. ...I was pretty outraged about the roof, too, Sasha. So was Dementieva, in her interview. It was <I>so</I> hot, and they knew they were going to have to put the roof on, so why not do it before the match?Dianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07124489754017593105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-229616072187725718.post-72131968968562898352009-01-28T12:35:00.000-06:002009-01-28T12:35:00.000-06:00This was an absolutely disgusting decision to put ...This was an absolutely disgusting decision to put the roof on during the match and not before or after. If I were Svetlana Kuznetsova, I would embed one of my rackets in Craig Tilley's skull right now. Kuznetsova was just getting in control of the match when it is called off for half an hour to do the roof (think of it as an injury time-out six times over, which is blatantly going to snap the concentration of the leading player.) How people can call Serena a great sportswoman is laughable when she can't even deal with the conditions that her other opponents can. If her name is engraved on the champion's trophy on Saturday it will be the wrong one, after Azarenka and Kuznetsova should have won. I have never had much respect for Serena as a player (or the Australian Open team as organisers, for that matter) but today was a whole new low. <BR/><BR/>Sorry about that. Rant over.Sashahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10046481676701902506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-229616072187725718.post-8032696896072269092009-01-28T09:40:00.000-06:002009-01-28T09:40:00.000-06:00I didn't see--haven't yet seen--the Williams-Kuzne...I didn't see--haven't yet seen--the Williams-Kuznetsova match but caught the "man up" bit of the interview and winced.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com