What are you talking about? Venus was the higher seed and odds-on favorite. Beating her is an upset no matter how the actual match played out. Do you even know what an upset is?
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We can, and should, acknowledge that making it to a Grand Slam final at the age of 37 while also dealing with chronic illness is both incredible and completely unprecedented, while also acknowledging that Venus got her ass handed to her today. It doesn’t have to be an either or scenario.
No, it’s consistent with an upset. People generally don’t “Good job, good effort” the favorites when they lose. They’re saying to stop pitying her.
“if the money stops being more wrong than right, they go out of business.”
Venus was the 10 seed. Muguruza was the 14 seed. That’s the definition of an upset.
I’m starting to think that the tennis media might be worse than the golf media. Which is saying something. Excellent piece.
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Five-time Wimbledon champion Venus Williams lost to Garbiñe Muguruza in the final today and for Williams, her team,…
My thoughts exactly. Venus is one of my favorite tennis players ever, but she IS getting pretty old for tennis, which makes this Wimbledon run even more impressive.
Age is brought up a lot in sports, and honestly, it is an issue. Venus is amazing, but she’s most definitely an exception to the rule. I’m not offended by it; it makes her accomplishments so much more noteworthy. You hit thirty in any of the major sports, and the talk starts. Time is part of reality. And, yes,…
The third thing would be not sweating. He can be out playing a marathon 4 hour match against Murray in the desert and the dude still wouldnt sweat.
The commentators were playing a guessing game and they guessed every one wrong.
giri, your tennis posts are the most delightful thing about deadspin right now. just the best.
Is there anyone serious who isn’t in the “He’s the obvious GOAT” camp? I am sure there are the classic “devil’s advocate” types but I doubt very much there is anyone of serous import in the tennis world who thinks Nadal and his French Open domination somehow eclipse Federer...or that Sampras had superior…
Gotta admit, I turn off browser images at work so I clicked on this fully expecting it to be a plea to Janet Yellen about raising or not raising interest rates.
Nothing makes me happier than watching Fed say fuck you to age and kick ass. His first two sets today were a straight up lesson in grass tennis. And then that tie break! He was down 3-0!
Yeah, I gotta be honest, I saw JYS’s tweets and felt kinda bad for him, because I thought the article was about to publish under his byline in the Times. Only by reading this very blog did I realize he wasn’t officially involved.
He gave credit (and made multiple disclosures like this) after being called out for misrepresenting himself as a Times reporter in his bio (or at least for accidentally misleading people to believe he was). A lot of people thought he was one of the Times writers on the big stories this week!
Thank you. I came here to say this. People keep asking for stories about real people that are inclusive. THIS IS A FUCKING REAL STORY THAT IS INCLUSIVE. SO REAL IN FACT THAT IT FUCKING HAPPENED. Unless white women now have to either date within their race or no one is allowed to tell true stories about interracial…