Posted on 09/05/2022 7:56:15 PM PDT by Ennis85
On a peaceful Saturday in Perth, 12,000 miles from the clamour and bombast at Flushing Meadows, Margaret Court has just seen Serena Williams thwarted in a final tilt at equalling her place among the tennis immortals. While “greatest of all time” messages flash up on the electronic tickers inside Arthur Ashe Stadium, the statistical greatest, the woman with 24 grand slam singles titles to the departing Williams’ 23, is at the end of this long-distance telephone call. It is a distinction that now looks destined to last another generation at least. And yet the realisation brings a complex swirl of emotions. “Serena, I’ve admired her as a player,” Court says. “But I don’t think she has ever admired me.”
This is the rarest of audiences with Court, who almost never grants extended interviews. “I don’t do this much any longer,” she laughs, ruefully. “I was at Wimbledon this year and nobody even spoke to me. So I thought, ‘Ah, that’s interesting.’”
Here lies the bitter truth: that the figure with more major triumphs of any player in history, male or female, is one on whom her sport would rather turn its back. In contrast to the relentless sugar-rush that accompanied Williams’ farewell in New York, her fellow all-time great finds herself airbrushed from the picture, discarded as an inconvenient relic.
Except Court, who turned 80 in July, remains very much active. When we speak, she is still preparing the Sunday services she is due to deliver at Perth’s Victory Life Centre, the church where she has served as a pastor since 1995. She is more than sharp enough to discern what is happening to her in tennis, which, regardless of her unmatched feats, prefers to relegate her to a footnote in The Serena Show.
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Glad you brought up Riggs. He not only beat her, he beat her easily. He could have beat King too IMO, but threw the match. Riggs was such a shady character, who knew what was going on there.
Margaret Court is White, therefore she is irrelevant.
“Inclusion” means “discard the White people”. “Diversity” means “kill the White people”. “Equity” means “steal White peoples’ stuff”.
Huh ... A bit of poking around the interwebz thingy reveals that Margaret Court at some point spoke very publicly against sodomite “marriage” in Australia, to the point of boycotting Qantas on account of their support of buggery.
For this, she must be annihilated.
She looks like it.
Don’t they test in tennis?
They test very selectively in tennis...you get a lot of notice.
She’s also AA, so they are careful testing her.
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