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Heartbreak for Serena Williams on her emotional return to Wimbledon as she is beaten by little-known Harmony Tan in three-hour first-round epic under the lights on Centre Court... as questions emerge over whether she'll EVER be back at SW19
Daily Mail UK ^ | June 29, 2022 | Mike Dickson

Posted on 06/28/2022 10:26:03 PM PDT by Morgana

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To: lee martell
I was also surprised.

I wasn't.
40 year olds don't win grand slams.

21 posted on 06/29/2022 4:13:47 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Churchillspirit

Venus is older than Serena. She won’t get far either. Time for her to get married and have children.


22 posted on 06/29/2022 4:15:38 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Weren’t the Williams sisters the ones who introduced all the disgusting grunting to the sport of female tennis? They may not have introduced it I guess, but they were the first ones to me who made it so noticeable that to me, it overshadowed anything else.

It is like someone who has a weird verbal tic, and once you hear it, you cannot unhear it.

I was never a big fan of watching tennis, though I loved playing it, but I couldn’t stand to hear that grunting it and avoided women’s tennis like the plague.

I always kind of liked Chris Evert, never knew her politics, which I have always appreciated. Can’t say the same of Navratilova from the same era, who I always disliked and suspected of using steroids.


23 posted on 06/29/2022 4:21:58 AM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: rlmorel

agree with everything you said.


24 posted on 06/29/2022 4:23:25 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Morgana

In case anyone is curious as to what SW19 is all about, the postal code for Wimbledon is 19. South Wimbledon postal code 19.


25 posted on 06/29/2022 4:45:04 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: SmokingJoe

“Long past her retirement age”

I’d say she “died with her boots on”, an admirable thing to do.


26 posted on 06/29/2022 4:49:01 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: Morgana

Losing must have felt like a real kick in the balls to her.


27 posted on 06/29/2022 4:53:04 AM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: Morgana

Serena was the Queen of unsportsmanlike conduct until Osaka came along.


28 posted on 06/29/2022 5:04:39 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: lee martell
Harmony Tan

??? Wonder if shes any relation to Mantan Moreland!!

29 posted on 06/29/2022 5:58:35 AM PDT by gr8eman (Abortion! It's just a murderous ghoul thing!)
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To: albie; Robert DeLong

SW = south west - it’s in the south west area of the city of London.


30 posted on 06/29/2022 6:18:56 AM PDT by Mr Information
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To: Morgana

Too heavy, too old, too out of shape. She needs to retire.


31 posted on 06/29/2022 6:19:51 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: rlmorel
Weren’t the Williams sisters the ones who introduced all the disgusting grunting to the sport of female tennis?

Monica Seles did that.

32 posted on 06/29/2022 6:51:01 AM PDT by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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To: Gil4

LOL, I remember the SNL “At Home With Monica Seles”...where she would grunt doing everything like opening a can of soda.


33 posted on 06/29/2022 6:57:23 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Gil4

As I said, I didn’t know if they originated it, but their use of it was completely repellent to me.


34 posted on 06/29/2022 7:10:50 AM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: Morgana

I’m surprised there hasn’t been more uproar about trannies in women’s sports.


35 posted on 06/29/2022 7:24:23 AM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: Doofer

How cool that you knew that! Thank you for your service, sir.


36 posted on 06/29/2022 7:28:22 AM PDT by Quilla
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To: Ge0ffrey

What did Osaka do? I missed that.


37 posted on 06/29/2022 2:03:39 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor. )
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To: Morgana

Haven’t you been following the Osaka telenovela?


38 posted on 06/29/2022 4:39:18 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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