The commentators , mc mj and the others , on the women's singles did not seem capable of telling us the truth, just diplomatic,,, propaganda,,, b.s!! So lets talk about the terrible shameful play by most "professional" women playing singles tennis , even Venus who mentally and emotionally showed how vulnerable and thin her game is. Even Serena showed poor sportsmanship by swearing, i heard, and after years of similar wins by intimidation showed how very shallow her confidence was. For comparison, look on the men's single side to the amazing fabulous high level of play by Verdasco, to the very-last-point,,,
Tennis is a great physical and mental-emotional sport ,wherein if you don't believe you can 'beat' your opponent, you probably will hit a lot of balls into the net, hits balls out of the court, and not win ! Wow, did Safina ever show her soap opera side ? If i was her brother i would play her in a black leotard, since she seems to fear black, and wear a big afro and clown nose with pillows in my shirt and pants, swearing at her all the time to mentally toughen her. Did you see the woman singles player from Belarus ,,,shocking ?!!!
The sport seems to be producing women single patsies who hit to the OPPONENT not away from the opponent and sometimes repeatedly to the opponents favored side !! Capriati was a very talented player but had a reputation for not being able to close a match/beat an opponent/win,,,but rather get very well paid, maybe millions, for consistently losing/choking. We hoped Safina would not follow in such fragile, unprepared, too painful to watch footsteps. Look at Dem. and how many tournaments she has been in with fitness, and good ball handling skills but not the ability to "beat" and make unhappy the opponent. Do these women have too much of a need to please others ,,,or what ??!!
We need to help these women overcome their unreasonable and irrational fears, since it seemed Safina and Dem. both had the easy-part physical game/physical ability to easily beat Serena. Easily. Are there shrinks on tour ? Have these women seen therapists ?? Because the women's single side of tennis has sunk to a new low of fit and unfit competitors who can hit the ball,,, but are afraid to win. It is too shameful to watch.
Then there was the atrocious weather , that again the well paid commentators were not allowed or would rather not talk about. Ok, tennis is a summer sport played in the sun and sometimes humidity. But let's get rational here folks; Do we have to play in the worst possible weather for a country, when a roof could be closed and or an a/c could be turned on. There needs to be a defined playable weather range decided, just like when it rains and play is discontinued until the weather improves. This is not a gladiator sport where we are trying to kill Nadal with a ridiculous short interval of less than 48hrs between major matches or 4-5 hrs,,,or is it ?
The men can talk on many too many tv shows about the men playing football, mean and dirty, and honestly voice different opinions. But in tennis there seems to be this rule to suffer in silence and talk a lot of b.s. about how great the William sisters play is when it seems they win by intimidation and fear and most opponents crumple on their own lack of confidence rather than a more honest contest of physical play to physical play, without so much really scary mental-emotional baggage.
Maybe if we don't watch women's singles tennis and the tv revenues drop drastically, then maybe the sport will figure out that something is wrong in the training of these so-called professional/very highly paid 'athletes'.
I can not bear to watch until then.
