What she said:
“I was really unlucky—I always had to face the Williams sisters."
Daniela Hantuchova feels that she was hard done by the draw in her previous majors.
What she really meant:
“I wasn’t good enough on those days to beat the Williams.”
What she definitely didn’t:
“Caroline’s as good or better than the Williams.”
The women’s round of 16 has a threadbare appearance.
Three big upsets in the first week tells a tale of the unpredictability visited on the WTA tour—absent the Williams sisters.
Fans are so used to seeing Serena Williams perched atop the rankings that they failed to note the depth in the lower rungs.
Daniela Hantuchova: Image via Wikipedia
It’s always difficult coming into the first Grand Slam of the year. It is as though one has to shake off the excesses of the Christmas festivities ,shed the trappings of the successes in the previous year and get down to business on a clean slate. Yet, one has to act as though one were never away from the hurly-burly of the action on court.