Can you imagine Marion Bartoli or Sabine Lisicki playing against Petra Kvitova in the Wimbledon finals?
I can. Bartoli and Lisicki both had a chance to make the finals this year—not by chance, but by quality of play.
Maria Sharapova made the finals, which NBC was happy about.
In women’s tennis these days, networks care about one thing only: sex appeal.
When I read the headlines before the finals, all I saw were pictures and headlines of Sharapova: Is she the best grass court player today, is she the best women’s tennis player today, why Sharapova will win.
Only Sharapova.
If someone read those articles, they would have no idea who the other finalist at Wimbledon was.
It was Petra Kvitova. A young, up-and-coming tennis player who is only 21 years old and is semi-attractive. ESPN or other sites could have done so many stories on her, but chose to go with Sharapova.
Kvitova is you...
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