When Serena Williams strode onto fifa 16 coins the court against Maria Sharapova, a player who arrived, ascended and descended, all while Williams was dropping forehand bombs, that Sharapova was getting a beatdown was assumed. Sport wants to believe in its underdogs, wants to believe that there will be a contest.
In the final, when Williams was a bit shaky, people wanted to believe that her opponent, who was 5 years old when Williams won her first Grand Slam tournament, had a shot. The illusion needed to believe something other than Williams will play well enough to dispatch her just like she does almost everyone else that she plays, because that is what the best do. She messes up tennis because the same person, the most gifted person, isn’t supposed to always win. That’s just churlish, and unfair. You can’t flout winning the genetic and talent lottery by then kicking the crap out of everybody. Every now and again, even when there is hope, sport snatches it away.
The cruelest thing I have ever seen in tennis came in 1993 when Jana Novotna was beating Steffi Graf in the Wimbledon final. Novotna lost a tight first set, won the second and was up 4-1 in the third, serving, a point away from 5-1. And she blinked. And Graf got that face. It’s like Messi’s murderface. Back then, Graf was the same pain the ass Serena Williams is now. Death, taxes and Graf. People were going nuts. Then the universe set things right. Graf rolled off 5 straight games, winning the set and the title. So much for the underdog.
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