What a goofball

Sorry it's a bit late. This sat in the draft portion for a long time. Richard Williams is one of those people who craves attention and thinks the whole world is against him. His daughters did work hard to get where they are in their various activities off and on the court. Read up on them (link #3) and tell if they are not rewarded for their hard work as Richard the goofball suggests. I think Richard 's talent for stating stupidity did rub off on Venus (link #2)

http://sports.yahoo.com/ten/news?slug=ap-wta-richardwilliamsremarks&prov=ap&type=lgns

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/07/sports/tennis/07women.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serena_Williams

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP)—WTA head Larry Scott said Thursday that he strongly disagrees with comments made by Richard Williams, father of Serena and Venus, regarding racism on the women’s tour.

Saying he was disappointed by Williams’ recent remarks during an interview in India, Scott said in a statement: “The Tour has a zero tolerance policy when it comes to racism, and I have previously let Mr. Williams know that he should let me know if he ever had evidence of racist comments or acts in women’s professional tennis.”

While his daughters were playing earlier this month in Bangladore, India, where Venus reached the quarterfinals and Serena won the title, Williams told the Deccan Herald, “Well, I’m black and I’m prejudiced, very prejudiced. People are prejudiced in tennis. I don’t think Venus or Serena was ever accepted by tennis. They never will be.”

He said the media treated his daughters unfairly, that it was “the worst media job that they have done on any human being in the world,” and that if he were Serena and Venus, he would have quit playing.

“But if you get some little white no-good trasher in America like Tracy Austin or Chris Evert, who cannot hit the ball, they (the media) will claim this is great,” he said.

Scott said, “Champions like Chris Evert and Tracy Austin have done so much to help build women’s tennis to where it is today, and it is regrettable that anyone would criticize them in this manner.”

The Williams sisters haven’t played at Indian Wells since 2001. They were booed after Venus pulled out of a semifinal match against her sister, citing knee tendinitis. Serena went on to win the title, but was booed during and after the championship match.

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“At the end of the day, the best player usually wins, and she played the best today,” Williams said. But then she proceeded not to be as gracious.

“She started playing like really bad, and she totally threw me off," Williams said. "It was weird stuff, and it threw me off. Next thing I know, I was playing as bad as she was.”

Williams, who had 51 unforced errors in the match, blamed the 6-1 rout in the third set on a sore left hip. “It felt like I couldn't move the way I wanted to,” she said.

Venus Williams, seeded 10th, seemed at first to be cruising against the fourth-seeded Clijsters. Williams took the first set and then a 4-2 lead in the second set. But Clijsters had other ideas. She broke Williams’s serve once to make it 4-3 and then twice more in a set in which the players traded seven breaks overall.