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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a thing, it's not just Naomi.

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I’ll have to relisten but did she say she plays better tennis than the journalists? That didn’t make sense to me because they are journalists,  they are not tennis players or, is she just saying she’s a superior human to them in which case I find to be offputting.[/quote]

Yes, she's saying she plays better tennis than the journalists. She's coming at it from a "those who can, do; those who can't teach/write about it" sort of approach. It's a way for her to feel superior in the moment, when someone is trying to mess with her head is how I took it.[/quote]

Yes.  And pp, why do you find what she said “off putting”?  Venus maybe in the twilight of her career, but if you don’t think you’re the best who else will? That’s how top athletes think, they have otherwise, people will get in their head and try to derail them. Especially journalists. I mean I know they have a job to do but they can ask things with the specific intention of cutting players down. And they often ask female players really personal questions that have nothing to do with tennis or their game that they never ask the male players. One time a journalist asked Serena about being on her period while playing  :roll: ....other female also have been asked that. Is that really an appointment question?[/quote]

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