Before we get down to the business at hand, let's just start with this: Serena Williams often gets a lot of heat for being a poor loser, disinclined to give an opponent who beats her adequate respect and credit. Yesterday, it was Kim Clijsters, with whom everyone seems enamored these days, who went that route, after being annihilated by Nadia Petrova.
"She was good. But, you know, I let her,” Clijsters said, after winning a lone game in her match with Nadia Petrova and falling victim to an upset that will be remembered for a long, long time. “I made all the mistakes and she didn't really have to do much. She served really well and was aggressive in the rallies. But that's because I let her play into the courts. . . I wasn't feeling the ball well. It sucks."
Baloney, Kim.
When a WTA player serves 60 percent, cracks five aces and no double faults, and makes just 10 unforced errors (all things over which Kim had little, if any control, no matter how badly she was "feeling" the ball), you're obliged to say, first and foremost: She played great and cleaned my clock...
But it's okay to add, "It sucks."
And it will suck even more if Justine Henin, who's overshadowed you from, it seems, birth, goes on to win this tournament. That's just the way it goes.
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