So few Americans left standing.\u00a0 Handsome 28-year old defending champ Mauresmo lost to a pretty 18-year old blond.\u00a0 They played out on the center court, worn the same\u00a0dress with\u00a0ponytails, sporting identical\u00a0physiques.\u00a0 I always rooted for Mauresmo, quiet\u00a0with a\u00a0gorgeous single hand backhand.\u00a0 Today looked like just\u00a0wasn’t her day, and wondering if there are many more to come.<\/p>\n
I saw the\u00a0brief interview with Richard Williams due to rain delay.\u00a0 He still looked and sounded\u00a0the same, and gently suggested that his girls, Venus and Serena should quit the doubles, concentrating on singles\u00a0since the schedule is messed up.\u00a0 Many years ago,\u00a0before the giggling sisters took the women’s tour by storm,\u00a0the Sport Illustrated (SI) done a length feature on the dad and his girls with a deride tone, especially when it mentioned that the Dad predicted Venus and Serena would soon\u00a0be No. 1 and No. 2.\u00a0\u00a0Which they did.\u00a0 I’m no fan of Richard Williams, but he deserves the credit for raising two successful, normal and happy daughters.\u00a0 Chris Evert who’s rather boring, was bit out of line to ridicule<\/a> the girls for pursuing other interests in life.\u00a0 A balanced person with depth is exciting, Chrissie<\/a>. On the other hand, if Chrissie wanted to get her points over, she should have written to Serena privately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So few Americans left standing.\u00a0 Handsome 28-year old defending champ Mauresmo lost to a pretty 18-year old blond.\u00a0 They played out on the center court, worn the same\u00a0dress with\u00a0ponytails, sporting identical\u00a0physiques.\u00a0 I always rooted for Mauresmo, quiet\u00a0with a\u00a0gorgeous single hand backhand.\u00a0 Today looked like just\u00a0wasn’t her day, and wondering if there are many more to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}