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Serena and Venus claim they don't fix their matches
Standard Reporter
| 6.24.02
Posted on 06/24/2002 8:16:28 AM PDT by 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."
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News
KEYWORDS: tennis; wimbleton
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posted on
06/24/2002 8:16:28 AM PDT
by
meandog
To: meandog
Are they really better than anyone else?
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posted on
06/24/2002 8:17:53 AM PDT
by
meandog
To: meandog
If they don't fix matches, they should. We can't have one feel too bad for losing too many times... </sarcasm>
To: codebreaker
Wimbledon ping!
To: meandog
Forget all that, I want to know if they've ever been tested for steroids.
To: evolved_rage
Isn't their father always playing the race card in one fashion or another?
To: Lee'sGhost
Forget all that, I want to know if they've ever been tested for steroids.No. That would be profiling.
To: meandog
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.
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posted on
06/24/2002 8:28:03 AM PDT
by
Skooz
To: meandog
Who cares. Give me a match between Anna K. and Hingis anyday.
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posted on
06/24/2002 8:29:26 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: meandog
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.
To: Lee'sGhost
Forget all that, I want to know if they've ever been tested for steroidsSerena could be a linebacker for the Packers.
To: meandog
These two look like the East German swimmers of the 70s....does tennis test for steroid use ?
To: 1Old Pro
Make that a match between Anna K. and that new girl Daniela Hutchanova (Yeoww!)
To: 1Old Pro
"Who cares. Give me a match between Anna K. and Hingis anyday."
Hey, let's stick with tennis here, OK.
To: 1Old Pro
By the way, you brought up Anna's name and it is therefore required that you post pictures.
To: Lee'sGhost
LOL! Anna could win a tournament eventually..
To: Paul Atreides
Generally speaking, isn't there is a 90% chance of the race card being played by people "of race".
To: meandog
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?
To: Lee'sGhost
The game would start with love and end up with both of them raising a racquet....
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posted on
06/24/2002 9:21:37 AM PDT
by
M. Peach
To: Lee'sGhost; 1Old Pro
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