CAMELOT FANTASIES

Speaking of unbridled ignorance. I came on here to post about Maria, the "indomitable warrior" who consistently has a powder puff draw in every tournament that she enters. The only way that she plays the dangerous players is when they're injured or coming back from injury. That helps to pad her "victories." And yes, I believe in rigged draws because people can always find a way to override any system on earth. Years ago I read a story about how they rig bingo. They inflate the balls to different weights so that they'll never reach the hopper, but it's done right in front of people's eyes, so they believe it's "real" and meanwhile the bingo hall makes a ton of cash.

Anyway, when Serena terminated her season Maria flew out of rehab. This was her chance to bag another WTF after eleven years. She was of course given a cushy draw with players who weren't power hitters and she sailed through overpowering them all. I knew that when she had to play the other side that she was going to fail, and she did; lost the match from 5-1 up, served for it twice, and Kvitova ran off five games in a row to level the match, get it to a tiebreak and send Maria out of the tournament that couldn't even bag without Serena or Azarenka in the draw.

But all tournament long we heard how competitive, how in form, how rested,  and how driven she was to compete. And to see her struggling to maintain her "icy demeanor" was a real treat. If she was so competitive she wouldn't have lost to her rival for the last eleven years and counting, and yet they have people believing that utter BS.

Maria is on Hingis's level. She hasn't even reached Venus's level, and they're paying her all of this money for what? She's been the highest paid female tennis player for eleven years on the strength of one win against Serena. Meanwhile she has five majors to Serena's 20, 21? More BS.

I am stupefied that people buy so easily into stuff that makes absolutely no sense at all.