Williams Trial Concludes; ATP, WTA Under Fire comment box Tennis-X.com, MI - 3 hours ago
...Serena likes to make the party scene with Hollywood directors and NFL players in tow, yet tells London’s Daily Telegraph that as Jehovah’s Witnesses, “We... .....now it’s up to the jury to decide who. The jury will undoubtedly focus solely on the case, and not take into considerationthe culture of lying that has always surrounded the Williams clan. Or maybe justlying to oneself, then going about the arduous task of making the rest of the world believe it. You can’t count the number of press conferences where one of the sisters denies being injured, or denies something that just happened in a match, or denies reality. Last January Serena showed up at the Australian Open exceedingly overweight, yet as the press danced around the question, she insisted she was in great shape. Serena likes to make the party scene with Hollywood directors and NFL players in tow, yet tells London’s Daily Telegraph that as Jehovah’s Witnesses, “We don’t believe in dating unless you’re ready to get married. I’ve never dated anybody.” Back in the day as the sisters were rising on the tennis scene and in the public eye, Richard Williams also saw himself as a celebrity, holding up signs for the television audience which watching their matches and making outrageous claims for the media. “This was a man who just doesn’t distinguish between fact and fiction,” said an unidentified industry insider during a CNN special on the family. “And he’s buying Rockefeller Center for $3.9 billion. And he owns thousands of buses. And he has a seat on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. And I’m not sure if it’s sort of controversy, so much as it’s amusement.” Back in the day if you called Richard Williams on any of his b.s., you were likely to see the race card .
