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Title: Williams watch incident.
Description: what's going on?


chairman - January 26, 2007 02:24 PM (GMT)
I heard serena got a friend of hers to glare Nicole's face with his watch. I hope this is untrue. I know the williams are nutters but I would normally leave antics like that to the Pova family.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,5205-2567778,00.html

barrystar - January 26, 2007 02:38 PM (GMT)
And here - a bit more detail

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story...4-23216,00.html

John Barrett is unlikely to have bothered remarking upon it unless he spotted something that seemed a bit odd to him - so there may have been something funny going on.

Assume then, for a moment, that the young man was trying to catch Vaidisova with his watch:

* I think it extremely unlikely that this would have been part of a Williams gameplan - she would have so much more to worry about and would no doubt have told him not to be so damn silly if he had suggested it to her. I'd like to think that members of her entourage would have said the same thing. Also, he was below them so they would most likely not have noticed it even if John Barrett, sitting somewhere else, did.

* When serving you are looking up at the ball so are unlikely to be distracted by a flash from the crowd unless directly in line with the ball (light travels in straight lines)

* He might have been mucking about highlighting a part of her physique that attracted his attention :wub:

* Vaidisova apparently did not see it - perhaps the most important point of all

Sounds like, if it were anything, it may have been a silly prank by an over-excited young man acting on his own accord. Next time he watches her (if there is one) he will no doubt keep his hand below the parapet).

I can understand her exasperation - sounds like nothing happened that was anything to do with her.

Nick Havoc - January 26, 2007 03:46 PM (GMT)
Sounds like much ado about nothing, to me.

barrystar - January 26, 2007 03:57 PM (GMT)
QUOTE (Nick Havoc @ Jan 26 2007, 03:46 PM)
Sounds like much ado about nothing, to me.

Well yes, but isn't it better to take a whole essay assisted by a newspaper extract to say that? ;)2

chairman - January 26, 2007 04:20 PM (GMT)
So is she still under investigation?

felixsanchez - January 26, 2007 04:40 PM (GMT)
Anonymous source Yuri Sharapova!

roflmao roflmao roflmao roflmao

ojoj

keep your knickers on!

POSCARS HOST - January 26, 2007 06:54 PM (GMT)
QUOTE (chairman @ Jan 26 2007, 02:24 PM)
I heard serena got a friend of hers to glare Nicole's face with his watch. I hope this is untrue. I know the williams are nutters but I would normally leave antics like that to the Pova family.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,5205-2567778,00.html

yep serena is a cheat too, eh Choka? roflmao

So two 'cheats' are contesting the final... COME ON MARIA!!!

liam_valid - January 26, 2007 07:44 PM (GMT)
Why do people have to try and spoil what is likely to be a great final between 2 great players? :angry: :angry:




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