Is Anyone Else Really Sick of Serena Williams
You know what really bothers me about Serena Williams' ongoing shennanigans? That she's tarnishing her own legacy with them.
I understand Serena getting a bit bored with tennis over the last few years, I really do. She was trained from an early age to push, push, push to be the best in the world, and when she became that, indisputably so, well, what next?
Competitors want to compete, and the chief among them will fling themselves into any field they can find to regain the thrill of competition, of starting at the bottom and working their way up to ultimate success.
It's the reason billionaires buy baseball teams, why singers suddenly want to act (and sometimes vice versa, with horrible results, I'm looking at you, Don Johnson!), why Michael Jordan played minor league baseball and thinks he can run an NBA team and why Arnold Schwarzenegger ran for governor of California (although, because of term limitations, he won't be back).
Serena dominated women's tennis. So, like sister Venus, she's attacked other industries - fashion, advertising, investing in a sports franchise and writing.
The results have been a mixed bag, but it seems that what Serena likes most is the spotlight, as we all saw with various degrees of tolerance during her month-long paparazzi fest during the 2010 US Open Series.
Seen flouncing around town with the likes of social luminaries such as Kim Kardashian and administering a pedicure to Oprah Winfrey, Serena seemed a lot more focused on making Page Six than getting back to tennis shape.
Most frustrating of all, she kept the true nature of her injury(ies) a closely-veiled secret, something she is now repeating by listing her reason for withdrawing from Tokyo and Beijing as "medical reasons."
Unless she's suffering from some mystery disease, there's really no rhyme or reason for the continued hush-hush nature of what otherwise would simply be called "taking time off".
Since the start of the 2009 US Open, Serena has two Grand Slam titles, one mysterious foot injury that seemed to molt like a virus from one malady to another, a life-threatening blood clot that no one found out about until after the fact, two run-ins with US Open officials that made her look like a whiny baby, a few magazine covers and a break-up with Common.
Not exactly the resume of someone Sports Illustrated crowned as the greatest female player of all-time following her conquest of Wimbledon in 2010.
What's on your mind?
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10/4/2011 10:04:22 PM
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