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I sometimes don't like her, I think her attitude bothers me generally but I have to give her due kudos for this. it certainly increases my respect for her.


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Good for her!

I've been a tennis fan for a long time. I don't see and never really saw how Venus and Serena had any more attitude, or were any more arrogant, than any other professional athlete (I think both are required to be a successful professional athlete, at least to some degree). Serena has a temper, but many do. Jimmy Connors and John McEnroe were and are beloved for their 'tudes and their tempers.

Good for her. She and her sister have dealt with a barrage of racism and been great champions in the face of it all. They both have the attitudes of champions both on the court and in life.


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Guinevere wrote:Good for her!

I've been a tennis fan for a long time. I don't see and never really saw how Venus and Serena had any more attitude, or were any more arrogant, than any other professional athlete (I think both are required to be a successful professional athlete, at least to some degree). Serena has a temper, but many do. Jimmy Connors and John McEnroe were and are beloved for their 'tudes and their tempers.

I hated both so I am being equal opportunity.

Three cheers for Venus...

I think it's great when a person who doesn't need a university degree to be set financially, nevertheless pursues it and earns it...

What a splendid example she sets...

I just wish that Connors had given up the T2000 racket many years earlier than he did. he would have had many more major victories, I think.

it was a great racquet , and superior to the wooden models that were used when I began to play , but it was obsolete for many years before he gave it up.

I still have a t2000, I pick them up when I see them at yardsales and such. they are great for playing yard badmitten, which is very fun. you just get some nice birdies and whack the heck out of them. you can play force back or just rally. its really fun. no net, just whack it!

That is cool. Hopefully, with someone of her stature completing the program, many other players who won't earn her millions (and may only eke out a living on the tour) will follow her example and get their degree while they pursue their tennis dreams.

wesw wrote:I just wish that Connors had given up the T2000 racket many years earlier than he did. he would have had many more major victories, I think.

it was a great racquet , and superior to the wooden models that were used when I began to play , but it was obsolete for many years before he gave it up.

Totally agree Connors should have moved to the better rackets as early as possible because the T2000 was and always was a POS. The only reason Wilson sold any was because of Connors -- heavy, no feel, tiny sweet spot. Tennis failed big time when it let the Visigoth-non wood rackets through the gates.

Oh c'mon, I loved my Prince with the huge head. Pammy Shriver - a Baltimore girl who grew up near me and eventually married James Bond - used a similar racket to win a lot of doubles matches (22 grand slam titles and an Olympic gold) with Martina.

yeah it was a small sweet spot, but oh it was sweet, and it lasted forever. which was important to me. I used to love beating people with those big ass princes when they first came out. once the trend went to mid size racquets the t2000 was obsolete

when you had 20/10 vision and big flat serves and inside out forehands and a two handed backhand, and served and volleyed, it was far superior to any wood racquet that I could afford.

after I got my Donnay graphite cgx mid sized racquet in 1985 (used but almost new, she got a big prince) I d found my dream racquet. I think those are the letters, it is a lightweight girls racquet I think. I still have it upstairs, the strings are kinda loose , but they haven t broken. I haven t really played since my son was about two, in 1992 or so. not anything more than a bit of rallying anyway.

i tried to play with my daughter and holly a few times about three yrs ago, but my body was no longer able.

ah well