Serena and Venus claim they don't fix their matches

Standard Reporter | 6.24.02

[meandog]

by Standard Reporter

Venus and Serena Williams today denied claims that they had fixed matches.

As Wimbledon got under way today, with fans queuing all night for tickets, the sisters denied that they played weakly against each other or pulled out of tournaments to avoid meeting. Venus, 22, told ITV's Tonight With Trevor McDonald: "I enjoy playing Serena as much as the other competitors."

Serena, 20, added: "It's said (we decide who wins) but it's not true." Asked if they ever pulled out to avoid playing each other, she said: "It never happened."

[meandog]

Are they really better than anyone else?

[evolved_rage]

If they don't fix matches, they should. We can't have one feel too bad for losing too many times... </sarcasm>

[MotleyGirl70]

Wimbledon ping!

[Lee'sGhost]

Forget all that, I want to know if they've ever been tested for steroids.

[Paul Atreides]

Isn't their father always playing the race card in one fashion or another?

[Paul Atreides]

Forget all that, I want to know if they've ever been tested for steroids.

No. That would be profiling.

[Skooz]

The only women's tennis match I have watched in its entirety was between Chris Evert and Martina Navrotalova in July 1984. I was bedridden with hepatitis and could not get up to change the channel. It was hell.

[1Old Pro]

Who cares. Give me a match between Anna K. and Hingis anyday.

[MotleyGirl70]

I can't handle watching them. All of the uneccessary grunting drives me crazy.

GO JENNIFER!!!!!!

I'd like to see Jennifer play Serena in the semi finals and get revenage for her loss in the semi's at the French Open.

[MotleyGirl70]

Forget all that, I want to know if they've ever been tested for steroids

Serena could be a linebacker for the Packers.

[chemainus]

These two look like the East German swimmers of the 70s....does tennis test for steroid use ?

[codebreaker]

Make that a match between Anna K. and that new girl Daniela Hutchanova (Yeoww!)

[Lee'sGhost]

"Who cares. Give me a match between Anna K. and Hingis anyday."

Hey, let's stick with tennis here, OK.

[Lee'sGhost]

By the way, you brought up Anna's name and it is therefore required that you post pictures.

[codebreaker]

LOL! Anna could win a tournament eventually..

[evolved_rage]

Generally speaking, isn't there is a 90% chance of the race card being played by people "of race".

[Teacher317]

Asked if they ever pulled out to avoid playing each other, she said: "It never happened."

So when Serena pulled out so they wouldn't play each other in a semi-final and Venus could go to the championship match well-rested, that was a dream sequence?

[M. Peach]

The game would start with love and end up with both of them raising a racquet....

[codebreaker]

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