FEEDBACK:
FRIDAY, MAY 10
JCap
acting like spoiled kid
Give
me a break!
No
matter how annoying Billie Jean King is (and she is very annoying)
she did the right thing. If there are rules, then everyone
must abide by them. I truly do not know what the obsession
with JCap is. I have been to many of her matches and to say
the least she is very unpleasant on the court. She may have
been the 13-year-old cute kid all those years ago, but now
she is a 26-year-old spoiled brat. Success has truly gone
to her head. She should be very proud of her comeback, but
is there always the need to constantly let people know how
great she is? Jennifer you were much more mature at 13 then
you ever have been now!
Diane Jacob
Chicago, Illinois, USA
FEEDBACK:
MONDAY, MAY 6
Karma
got back at King
I
think Billie Jean got what she deserved. Karma has a way of
punishing those
that need it most. Billie Jean overlooked both Venus Williams
and Serena
Williams' willingness to play; she wanted a "team"
experience. She went with
the press' portrayal of the Williams as ice princesses because
they are more
comfortable with each other (they are sisters what do you
expect??), choosing
Shaugnessy and Raymond in their place. Congenial Monica Seles
is always a
great choice for the "team experience." I have no
clue why Jennifer Capriati
was chosen. Capriati is incredibly bitchy … she wines like
crazy … and has a
temper that could launch rockets (like father like daughter).
Many at home
don't see her as those of us who travel from tournament to
tournament do. I
don't think Billie Jean deserves to be fired but she should
soak in her
misery a little while long.
Sean
Kole
Sacramento, Calif., USA
FEEDBACK:
THURSDAY, MAY 2
BJK
should get the door
So
now Billie Jean is the sympathetic mother hen, concerned for
Jennifer's psyche? Oh, please! The question shouldn't be whether
Jen is there next year, but is BJ. Does the USTA have the
guts to fire her? Some teams had a defacto manager besides
the captain, such as the able coach Zoltan Kuharszky for Switzerland.
Such a person would have probably defused things for the U.S.
team. Sad to say, but the "adult" needed adult supervision.
Meghann deserved the fill-in role, but it would have been
coming full-circle for BJ to have played that match herself.
At age 30, she beat a 55-year-old who won his only GS 4 years
before she was born in a so-called Battle of the Sexes (I
guess 40 y.o. Rosewall was too young for the WWF style spectacle).
Would she have been willing to be the one at the age disadvantage,
even against a no. 75 player? I doubt it.
Roger
Davidson
