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To: wbarmy
Is Serena saying that normally she DOESN"T have to be ready to play the best the first day????? Sounds like her ***** privilege card is working just fine.

No, she's griping about the inherently unfair system where the top players (or teams in other sports) are seeded to play the worst teams in tournaments until finally all the lesser teams are crushed by the best early. This means that if you are really good you can mostly cruise through the early rounds and not be tested until later. Obviously this is good for TV because it gives the big names the best shot to advance, and I suppose if you are an up and coming hotshot you have to prove it by beating the best to rise. But in her case, people think she shouldn't have to play good opponents early because she's good too. Boo hoo.

The relevant quote from the article:
But, because her maternity leave prevented her from competing for awhile, she failed to receive a seeded ranking at the tournament, meaning she'd have to play much more difficult opponents.

16 posted on 05/29/2018 7:37:28 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Russians couldnt have done a better job destroying sacred American institutions than Democrats have)
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To: pepsi_junkie

It would be front page news if she made it.


18 posted on 05/29/2018 7:39:56 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cults.)
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To: pepsi_junkie

Also, Serena was a critic of Maria Sharapova even GETTING a Wild Card into the US Open. Shoe’s on the other foot now isn’t it? All Sharapova did was take out Simona Halep with her wild card ;)


24 posted on 05/29/2018 7:53:30 AM PDT by jyo19
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