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JEFF POWELL: Serena Williams is NOT the GOAT, despite the worshipful cult of adoration to feed her ravenous ego. It is right to celebrate an amazing career at her US Open farewell... but don't forget her long list of sins, too
Daily Mail UK ^ | September 4, 2022 | Jeff Powell

Posted on 09/04/2022 12:21:54 PM PDT by Morgana

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To: Fiji Hill

Do you honestly think Compton, CA is a lovely place?


21 posted on 09/04/2022 12:58:47 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Morgana

She used to be a nice looking young woman, but later turned into a beefy “monster”.


22 posted on 09/04/2022 1:06:30 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Morgana

I’ve never really been a fan, but she’s had much tougher competition that Court faced in her era. Losing her temper in a comment to a line judge or two over the decades does not make her a less great tennis player.

And yeah, she has had an advantage in size and strength over many competitors, but so have LeBron, Gronk, Giannis, Big Papi, etc.


23 posted on 09/04/2022 1:10:01 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Morgana

Like the “media” kiddies like to say, “She was a credit to her race.”


24 posted on 09/04/2022 1:10:50 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I always thought a Merry Garland was a Christmas tree decoration.)
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To: 9YearLurker

It’s more than losing her temper with the line judges it’s also be a very sore loser and poor winner.


25 posted on 09/04/2022 1:14:57 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor. )
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To: Morgana

Goodbye to an ugly person, both physically and emotionally.

She’s a bully and a narcissist.

I’m happy to see her and her doubles partner (Venus) lose.

Now she can go to Hollywood and be with all the other gigantic egos.


26 posted on 09/04/2022 1:15:19 PM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! R)
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To: Morgana

Serena’s supposed to be a gentleman?

She should stick around long enough to play against the next up-and-coming “transgender woman” player, yes?


27 posted on 09/04/2022 1:20:53 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Morgana

Many of the best athletes today are sore losers and poor winners. That’s not factored into fans’ assessments of how good they are as players. How good as human beings, perhaps; but not even really so much that at the pro level.


28 posted on 09/04/2022 1:23:57 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: EEGator

But if you’re smart, you can pull out early.


29 posted on 09/04/2022 1:33:49 PM PDT by Jhadur ("You are not ready for immortality.")
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To: Jhadur

Like...what I’m thinking?...


30 posted on 09/04/2022 1:35:10 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Morgana

She’s trash.


31 posted on 09/04/2022 1:41:59 PM PDT by bigbob (z)
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To: Bullish
Her size and power advantage obviously made her more successful at the game then others of more normal proportion

Kind of the Michelle Obama of Women's tennis.

32 posted on 09/04/2022 1:49:03 PM PDT by Right Brother
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To: Morgana

She’s leaving? It’s about time. Won’t miss her for a moment.


33 posted on 09/04/2022 2:32:33 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: Morgana

I’ve watched one women’s tennis match in my life.
I was deathly ill and lying on my couch. Evert vs Navratilova came on the TV but I was so sick I couldn’t get up to change the channel.

It was hell.


34 posted on 09/04/2022 2:49:45 PM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us )
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To: ifinnegan

Yea, the issue I have is that I dislike seeing Serena Williams ugly face plastered everywhere in the media. It offends me!


35 posted on 09/04/2022 2:57:47 PM PDT by rod5591
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To: EEGator

Maybe once it was a peaceful suburb, but I’ve heard that after the Watts riots in 1965 many middle-class residents moved away - Watts and Compton being adjacent to each other.

That’s when it all went pear-shaped: only four years later, one-time peaceful Compton had become a terrible crime hotspot, alas :-(


36 posted on 09/04/2022 3:11:11 PM PDT by Menes
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To: airborne

“I’m happy to see her and her doubles partner (Venus) lose.”

I thought I was going to get a case of contact diabetes from the sugar-on-steroids worship those two got from the commentators as they were getting their butts kicked by the Czechs.


37 posted on 09/04/2022 3:33:11 PM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: rod5591

Years and years of blasting testosterone and HGH into her body.


38 posted on 09/04/2022 3:35:07 PM PDT by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: Morgana

All-time tennis records – Women’s singles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-time_tennis_records_%E2%80%93_Women%27s_singles

Fewer titles than Margaret Court, Martina Navratilova, Chris Evert, Billie Jean King, Steffi Graf, Evonne Goolagong, and Suzanne Lenglen.


39 posted on 09/04/2022 3:56:33 PM PDT by FarCenter
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To: Morgana

We watched the last set of Serena’s last loss.
The fans in New York were an embarrassment to the city, state and nation. They screamed and cheered at Williams’ good shots but did not even touch their palms in a clap, or holler in approval, of ONE play that Tomjanovich made.
The post match interview was all about Serena and left the winner standing in front of her bench.
This was a rotten slight of the winner and all about the loser fading into oblivion. I am so glad to know that I won’t see the Williams sisters again.
SERENA WILLIAMS ENDS HER CAREER WITH A LOSS. End of story!


40 posted on 09/04/2022 4:29:54 PM PDT by BatGuano (2020 = Stolen Election. Believe it! Molon Labe.)
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