Wimbledon is on ~
the sisters are in news. Venus bears the
brunt of "old girl on tour" questions allowing her 34-year-old sister
– less than two years her junior – to slip under the age radar. Serena Williams
kept alive hopes of a ninth all-Williams
Grand Slam final on Tuesday with a 6-4, 6-4 Wimbledon quarter-final triumph
over Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. Venus Williams had beaten in straights Yaroslava Shvedova. Where
Serena will hold five years on her semi-final opponent, Elena Vesnina, Venus
will have eight years on hers, Angelique Kerber. Still, there was a 17-year age
gap when Venus narrowly held off her third-round opponent Daria Kasatkina. After claiming last year’s Wimbledon triumph,
it is Serena who became the oldest player in the Open Era to win a Grand Slam
title and it is Serena who has held the mantel as oldest women’s world No.1
since 2013.
Venus has not enjoyed
anywhere near the level of success in the twilight of her career, hence the
retirement queries are only amplified. Her first Grand Slam semi-final in seven
years will go some way to silencing those.
The powerful, defending champion Serena advanced to her 10th semi-final
at the All England Club closing to within two match wins of a seventh Wimbledon
crown, a title run which would draw her level with Steffi Graf’s Open Era
record of 22 Grand Slams.
In the earlier
match Serena hit the news for different reasons - If
I get hurt I’m gonna sue’: Serena Williams is quoted as issuing threat as she demanded play be stopped for
light rain on center court . In the QF,
at one stage in the first set the 34-year-old slipped at break point, before
microphones picked her up a game later telling the umpire: 'If I get hurt I'm
going to sue'. She had just broken back against her opponent Svetlana
Kuznetsova to level at 5-5 but was unhappy about continuing to play without the
centre court roof on. Tournament referee
Andrew Jarrett came out to try and broker a solution as light rain began to
fall, before it was decided to suspend play so the roof could be closed. When
play resumed Williams closed out the first set 7-5 before racing to victory
against world number 14 Kuznetsova by winning the second 6-0.
Though some tweets
criticised her, one supporter tweeted:
'Why is Serena Williams having to point out the obvious to the officials? 'Wet
grass is dangerous'.
A
negligence lawsuit is a civil lawsuit filed against a person or a legal party that
failed to use reasonable caution and caused damage to a victim while providing
care or services. It is essential to the outcome of a negligence lawsuit for
the victim to prove that harm was caused by the standard of service she or he
received.
Recently, in Oct
2015, Eugenie "Genie"
Bouchard, a Canadian professional tennis
player then ranked world no. 38 made
news with similar cry. At the 2014 Wimbledon Championships, Bouchard became the
first Canadian to reach the finals of a Grand Slam in singles, finishing
runner-up to Petra Kvitová. She also
reached the semifinals of the 2014 Australian Open and 2014 French Open and won
the 2012 Wimbledon girls' title.
At the US Open, she
defeated Alison Riske and Polona Hercog, respectively, in the first and second
rounds, was scheduled to play Roberta
Vinci in the fourth round, but had to withdraw due to a concussion, an injury
she suffered after falling in the locker-room following her first-round match
in mixed doubles. That injury ended Nick Kyrgios' US Open adventure as she was
the mixed doubles partner and had to withdraw.
US media reported
that Eugenie Bouchard was planning to sue United States Tennis Association over
US Open locker room fall. In the lawsuit filed on in US District Court in
Brooklyn, she reportedly claimed that her fall was caused by a "slippery,
foreign and dangerous substance" on the floor; she suffered a severe head
injury, which caused her to withdraw from the tournament. She also dropped out
of a tournament in China. Her suit claimed the USTA, tennis' national governing
body, was negligent and sought unspecified damages.
Bouchard had said
her world ranking dropped at least 13
spots since the incident ! USTA however
argued that the plaintiff [Bouchard] was
experienced and well-versed in the procedures and protocols of the women’s
tour, both in the United States and internationally, and knew or should have
known the procedures and protocols as they related to the operation of the
physiotherapy room adjacent to the women’s locker room at the National Tennis
Center and the attended rooms. USTA
claimed that physiotherapy room "is never dark; even when the lights are
turned off 'twilight' lighting remains and partially illuminates the room"
and that the conditions alleged by Bouchard were "open and obvious."
In
case, you are still wondering the photo at the start – it is : Elena Vesnina who thrashed 19th-seeded
Dominika Cibulkova 6-2, 6-2 reaching her
first Grand Slam semifinals.
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar
6th July 2016.
