The BLONDE Will Play 1st On Centre Court

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Jon Wertheim of Sports Illustrated: The good folks at the All England Club explained to us that they have a few choices: the slot can go to the champion two years ago, the current top seed or most recent finalist. Given that Serena Williams meets two of those three criteria, the guess is that she gets the call.<br /

That was the reasonable assumption, especially given that the most recent finalist is Sabine Lisicki, who has struggled since her near-triumph at Wimbledon. Lisicki is 17-16 since losing to Bartoli in the 2013 final. She’s just 4-3 at Slams, losing before the third round of each. She hasn’t advanced to the quarterfinals in any of her 11 tournaments this season and has just one semifinal in her 17 tournaments since last July. And now she’s opening the tournament over the biggest star in women’s tennis? It’s not as if last year’s finalist was Li Na or Sharapova or Victoria Azarenka. A star getting that slot would be fine. A middling top 20 player? Come on.

 

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Jon Wertheim of Sports Illustrated: The good folks at the All England Club explained to us that they have a few choices: the slot can go to the champion two years ago, the current top seed or most recent finalist. Given that Serena Williams meets two of those three criteria, the guess is that she gets the call.<br /

That was the reasonable assumption, especially given that the most recent finalist is Sabine Lisicki, who has struggled since her near-triumph at Wimbledon. Lisicki is 17-16 since losing to Bartoli in the 2013 final. She’s just 4-3 at Slams, losing before the third round of each. She hasn’t advanced to the quarterfinals in any of her 11 tournaments this season and has just one semifinal in her 17 tournaments since last July. And now she’s opening the tournament over the biggest star in women’s tennis? It’s not as if last year’s finalist was Li Na or Sharapova or Victoria Azarenka. A star getting that slot would be fine. A middling top 20 player? Come on.

There is nothing new here, Grosse, move on.

 

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B.S. They kicked the WS off centre court once before to showcase the 'battle if the beauties' or some such thing. Ree meets 2 out of the 3 criteria established plus she's a 5 time champ, yet they chose Lisicki who hasn't done anything since her crappy play in last year's final.

 

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Grosse, you are spot on. somethings never change.

 

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Serena's 2nd class citizenry confirmed.

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