Then there was her refusal to take a mandated test for the 2004 Olympics. Really, Serena? And those East German women weren't cheating at the Olympics back in the '70s and '80s? She said women don't need to be tested because women don't take steroids. Particularly odd was the statement that Serena issued regarding why she was against steroid testing. The fact that these same players were the very ones who bullied the WTA into dropping offseason testing should have been front page news, but most sports "journalists" in the US refused to cover the story. Those three, along with Amelie Mauresmo and Lindsey Davenport, were players about whom there was the most speculation. Those players were Serena and Venus Williams, along with Jennifer Capriati. That testing was blocked by the top three women's tennis players at the time. As rumors of steroid abuse swirled around the WTA in the late '90s and early 2000s, the WTA finally took action and called for offseason steroids testing.
Instead they would play half-heartedly in front of people who had payed top dollar to see the world's best when the WTA came to their town.Īnd then there's the real elephant in the room. Why not enter different tournaments? They have them all over the world and the Williams could have easily split up their schedule if they were so adverse to playing against each other. They always said it was because they didn't like to play against each other, but if that was really the case why did they continue to enter the same small tournaments all over the US?
#AMELIE MAURESMO BABY BOY FULL#
Then there were the tournaments where the Williams sisters would cheat fans by putting on glorified exhibitions rather than playing each other at full speed. Of course, if you wrote the "real" story Richard Williams would blast you for being a racist and threaten to sic Al Sharpton on you, so the fake story of little Serena and Venus fighting their way out of the ghetto lives on until this day. The sisters were born in Michigan, then moved briefly to Compton, CA before relocating to West Palm Beach, FL where they were enrolled in the very same tennis academies that other top players attended at the time. The problem with the story was it was complete BS. The story was tailor made for every sports beat writer that covered them, prepackaged by their overbearing father Richard who blasted anyone who questioned it. Two sisters from the "ghetto" of South Central LA who overcame adversity to become two of the best women's tennis players in history.
From the very beginning of their careers the world has lapped up the story of the Williams sisters.
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