Temper, temper, Serena

[hondo]

http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/2013/01/23/serena-williams-smashed-her-racket-to-pieces-during-her-loss-at-the-australian-open-video/

No Crip Walking Down Under this year.

 

[LongTimeListener]

OH MY VIRGIN EYES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't believe she shows emotion like that. What an awful person.

(Psst. Nobody tell hondo that baseball players sometimes smash bats.)

 

[Songbird]

She still has great Titles.

 

[dooley_womack1]

And Hondo's trolling of the Williams sisters continues.

 

[BTExpress]

Roid rage.

Regardless of intentions, have to give hondo credit for at least starting the thread. Serena losing to 19-year-old American in QF of a Grand Slam is pretty much the biggest story of this week. Even bigger than Wes Welker's wife, whose thread is double-digit pages long.

 

[LongTimeListener]

I must admit I saw that picture of the unknown American who beat her and immediately tried to identify which early '90s NBA star she resembles.

 

[da man]

I must admit I saw that picture of the unknown American who beat her and immediately tried to identify which early '90s NBA star she resembles.

You're a bit off on your NBA timeline. Try 1971-87 (assuming you include the ABA).

And I know you're trying to be funny, but unknown? Come on.

 

[qtlaw]

Perhaps Sloane Stephens is the NEXT big thing in American tennis; that would be nice to see. If she can take down Serena, she can take down Azarenka.

 

[LongTimeListener]

I must admit I saw that picture of the unknown American who beat her and immediately tried to identify which early '90s NBA star she resembles.

You're a bit off on your NBA timeline. Try 1971-87 (assuming you include the ABA).

And I know you're trying to be funny, but unknown? Come on.

She's 19, right? Which would mean she was born in 1994.

As for unknown, I had never heard of her before yesterday and I think most people hadn't either.

EDIT: And as fate would have it, her father is not an NBA player but former NFL running back John Stephens. (The Wiki says he died in a car accident three years ago.)

 

[da man]

I must admit I saw that picture of the unknown American who beat her and immediately tried to identify which early '90s NBA star she resembles.

You're a bit off on your NBA timeline. Try 1971-87 (assuming you include the ABA).

And I know you're trying to be funny, but unknown? Come on.

She's 19, right? Which would mean she was born in 1994.

As for unknown, I had never heard of her before yesterday and I think most people hadn't either.

I mixed her name up with Alexandra Stevenson! Oops!

And maybe I just proved your point, but as for the tennis, she's a seeded player and is considered one of the U.S.'s rising stars.

 

[hondo]

I must admit I saw that picture of the unknown American who beat her and immediately tried to identify which early '90s NBA star she resembles.

You're a bit off on your NBA timeline. Try 1971-87 (assuming you include the ABA).

And I know you're trying to be funny, but unknown? Come on.

Larry Kenon?

 

[hondo]

And Hondo's trolling of the Williams sisters continues.

All I did was post a video millions of people worldwide have already seen. Plus, it was a major upset.

 

[dooley_womack1]

And millions of people put up your thread title?

 

[PCLoadLetter]

This made me laugh.

http://deadspin.com/5978136/can-anyone-think-of-another-reason-sloane-stephens-is-considered-serena-williamss-protege

 

[da man]

I must admit I saw that picture of the unknown American who beat her and immediately tried to identify which early '90s NBA star she resembles.

Turns out you were close, but wrong league. Daddy was former Patriots RB John Stephens:

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/australian-open-sensation-sloane-stephens-daughter-1988-nfl-140117230--nfl.html

 

[da man]

BTW, that story also says she doesn't follow pro football but wants the Ravens to win the Super Bowl because "I love Ray Lewis."

For whatever that's worth.

 

[Azrael]

Djokovic. Murray. Federer.

Racquet smashers.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=idZGJaAmzug

www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/tennis/4575625/Andy-Murray-smashes-racket-as-he-loses-at-Japan-Open.html

www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9X48FqmoJI

 

[waterytart]

How unladylike of them.

 

[YGBFKM]

All that ingratiating on gun control and then this. Unfortunate.

 

[joe_schmoe]

I must admit I saw that picture of the unknown American who beat her and immediately tried to identify which early '90s NBA star she resembles.

You're a bit off on your NBA timeline. Try 1971-87 (assuming you include the ABA).

And I know you're trying to be funny, but unknown? Come on.

I follow tennis a lot and I'd heard of her quite some time back. But that being said, most of your average tennis fans had no clue who she was until this tournament. I'm sure even on Day 1 and 2 when the commentators mentioned her and hailed her as the next up and coming teen sensation, most people tuned it out then. There's three names on the women's side of tennis the average fan knows: Serena, Venus and Sharapova. Beyond that some know Wozniacki, and Azurenka, but the Top 10 on the women's side changes so much, few pay much attention to any name for too long.
Malanie Oudin became a big sensation some 3-4 years ago when she had her nice US Open run. But now she's back to just being another face in the crowd. So until Sloane proves this is more than a one-hit wonder Major, don't expect her to become the next tennis superstar either.