re: Why the Serena Hate?

She's kind of socially retarded and people think she's a drama queen. Here's what people on another board were saying during the French Open.

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It seems like she starts hamming it up regularly nowadays to prepare reason for a potential loss early in a match. Staggering around the court, acting confused, dropping the ball before serving, looking like she is about to cry or fall over dead between points.

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This is insane looks like she is going to cry after every point. Grow up and play like a woman not a child.

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Great now she is throwing up is that her excuse if she loses.

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It's her winning methodology. She needs to feel like the underdog to raise her game and feel like she earned the victory or made a heroic comeback. The thing is she doesn't want to be the tragic heroine, she wants to be the heroine who overcomes the challenges.

Because there's no real challenge (her normal game trumps everybody else on tour) she has to invent problems and setbacks that will then motivate her to win. As if a huge injustice is happening on the court and must be rectified. That's how she wins and it works beautifully for her. Why change it? Nobody even calls her out on it.

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I agree with this. . I used to get upset by it until I started appreciating the ridiculousness of it and started being amused by it. . She puts on a grand show overcoming all kinds of dastadly villians and insurmountable obstacles to gloriously defy death itself and carve out a routine win over an opponent with half her skill level. Its great theater in the tradition of Shakespeare, or WWE.

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