Royalties

Roger Federer and Venus Williams... No, they are not dating. Duh.

Wimbledon is a dream, and a grassy one.

He won it 5 times in a row, she won it 4 times already. He's the number one player, and she's the lowest seeded player to win the title. He's emulated a record, and she has beaten her own record of being the lowest seeded player to win (14th before, 23rd now). Her sister won the first slam of the year ranked 81st, and she won the third slam ranked 31st. Cool. Well anyway, there are a lot of write-ups about their victories, so I won't add anymore to that. I watched all of their matches, even those until 2:30-3am. Haha. Fed Cup is next, but there are no broadcasts for that. Speaking of Fed Cup, reporters are gunning Sharapova again, since she backed-out playing for team Russia. Russia would meet USA on July 14-15. She chose to attend an awards night over playing for her country. Wow.

"I'm telling you, just forget about all these promises," Russia's chief tennis coach Vladimir Kamelzon was quoted saying.

"Once again she (Maria) said she'd play, only to turn her back on the team at the last minute," said the source.

Winner!

Meanwhile, Maria Sharapova’s shrieks hit 103.7 decibels in her loss to Venus Villiams at Wimbledon. The human threshold for pain is 115 decibels. Then she becomes a threat to public safety. If you get hearing loss while watching a match, can you file suit? With both banshees screaming I expect birds fell out of the sky and cats and dogs tried to bury themselves. Why hasn’t that girl been gagged? In 1992 Monica Seles was reprimanded for grunting and ordered not to do it again. She went on to lose the final to Steffi Graf, whom she’d been beating regularly.
*from Jessica Zafra

They said grunting is cheating. She has a new name, Maria Shriekapova.. Winner again! Haha. They really love criticizing her. Read the article, it's soo funny. Well, for me. Haha.

MORAL: Don't promise anything, especially if you really don't mean it. Don't try grunting while playing chess, they might stuff the chess pieces in your mouth, worse, even the chessboard. Not good.