Wall Of Shame

10/04/2019
Did Clijsters just clinch the MOST shameless tennis player title – irrefutably?
For rock people, she first retired after PUBLICLY declaring that she is doing so because she wants to start a family implying that the responsibility is big enough to demand her full attention.
She gets married. She stays retired.
Then she has a daughter. AND she unretires.
To make sure the ‘accusation’ sticks, she PUBLICLY declares feeling guilty for having returned thereby ‘sacrificing’ the needs of her newly born daughter and her family.
Photo of her adorable daughter standing next to her on the court with the US Open trophy won after unretiring needed no words to describe the stupidity.
Fast forward and now she has THREE kids (11, 5 and 3 years old) AND she is 36 freaking years old.
Think there’s sufficient reason(s) there to call even the thought of returning brazen shamelessness – and Mrs. Shrek like?
And if THAT wasn’t enough to remove ANY doubt that she truly is Mrs. Shrek, she PUBLICLY declares the reason she is returning as ‘because Serena and Azarenka are doing it’.
So THAT’S the reason strong enough to dump your family – with three little kids?
Didn’t her parents tell her the eternal ‘If your friends jump off the rooftop, will you do it too?’ saying I am so proud to have coined?
07/09/2018
Cibulkova wins few friends after strange call. Another Wall Of Shame candidate?
Dominika Cibulkova reached the Wimbledon quarter-finals for the third time but made few friends around Court 18 as she beat Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei in controversial circumstances on Monday.
The Slovakian won 6-4 6-1 but the match will be remembered for a ludicrous umpiring decision at a crucial stage of a tight opening set.
Hsieh, who stunned world number one Simona Halep on Saturday, was the victim of a glaring mistake by umpire Zhang Juan.
As Hsieh served at 4-5 0-30 Cibulkova pummeled a return deep into court and immediately challenged the linesman’s call of out, prompting Hawkeye to show it had indeed been in.
That is when common sense deserted the court.
The umpire awarded the point to Cibulkova, even though Hsieh had actually scrambled her return back.
Hsieh argued, correctly, that the point should be replayed but the umpire would not budge, saying she could not remember if Hsieh’s shot had gone in.
Cibulova could have intervened but simply stood on the baseline in the advantage court as if to prepare for a 0-40 situation, even with the crowd chanting “replay the point…replay the point”.
When a referee was summoned Cibulkova was called to the net and after further dialogue was told the point would be replayed. Her indignant response hardly endeared her to the crowd who understandably had taken Hsieh’s side.
When play resumed Hsieh battled back to 30-30 but Cibulkova won the game to take the first set and she powered through the second to book a last-eight clash with fellow power-merchant Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia.
Thirty-third ranked Cibulkova, who has responded in feisty fashion to being bumped out of the seedings by Serena Williams‘ elevation to 25th, fought her corner in a news conference.
“I don’t want to talk about it because I would get really upset and angry about that, because it was ridiculous what happened there,” Cibulkova said.
“It never happened to me in my career that the umpire changed the decision. It was really ridiculous for me.”
Asked whether she had sympathy for Hsieh, Cibulkova was adamant it was not the Taiwanese player who had been wronged.
“The right decision was, of course, to keep the decision,” the 29-year-old said.
“This happened to me so many times that I had exact the same point, and the point was given to the other player. I had no sympathy because it’s just about the chair umpire.”
Hsieh, 32, did not speak until after playing doubles later but was more gracious.
“I understand, she’s a fighter,” when asked if Cibulkova had shown a lack of sportsmanship. “She fights for every point.”
And of the umpire, she added: “Maybe she’s tired and she doesn’t see the ball. It’s quite common, even players on the court sometimes get tired and don’t see something, it’s normal.”
https://sports.yahoo.com/cibulkova-reaches-last-eight-wins-few-friends-143526318–ten.html
Wall Of Shame HERE.
01/11/2016
Tennis Wall Of Shame.
1. Fernando Gonzalez @ 2009 Olympics vs Blake:
With Gonzalez serving at 8-9 of the final set, Gonzalez came to the net on the first point and Blake countered by hitting right at him.
Later replays seem to show that Blake’s shot grazed Gonzalez’s racket just enough to change course slightly before going long.
The point went on the scoreboard for Gonzalez, and after a dismayed Blake got no satisfaction from the chair umpire, he stood and gave Gonzalez a long stare.
“Fernando looked me square in the eye and didn’t call it,” Blake said that night.
It had been such a close match that, in the end, Gonzalez had 136 points and Blake 135.
An agitated Blake met the media and said that situations such as that, in sports such as golf and tennis, are honor situations. You call those on yourself. He added that Gonzalez’s failure to do so was especially grievous because this happened at the Olympics, the poster child for fair play.
Gonzalez, who went on to lose to Nadal in the gold-medal match, responded that night by saying, “It was just one point.” And, “There is an umpire.”
He also said that if he were “100% sure” the ball had ticked his racket, he would have called it.
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