When will people realise that tennis is not a popularity contest? Perhaps Jennifer has let herself down on court in the past, but she is a tennis player not a UN ambassador. Sometimes when I read threads like this I wonder if we expect too much from these guys. They are tennis players, some better than others, but people all the same, with feelings, emotions etc.,
Personally, I like Jennifer. I like her fiestiness, her spirit, her heart and her game. She is the person who got me into tennis and I will always have an affinity to her because of this. However, I can see her faults, which are often glaring. But she is human, a trait others would do well to remember with some players.
Another thing, those who do not like her easily forget her generous actions at times; the Corina dedication at the FO final, the placard before the FO quarter, the tickets for the kids suffering from cancer during the AO 2000, the flowers to Hingis when she got injured etc,. If any other player had done some of those things, we'd never hear the end of it. She's not perfect, but at times she can be nice.
Too often we castigate these guys because we think we know everything about them. Quite honestly the only knowledge I have of most players is via the media and I know how much they bend the truth (Part of my work involves doing this). We know nothing and shouldn't think we do. Who are we to pass judgement on someone we only know through a media controlled image?
Once again, my response has become longer than any essay I have every written, but I'm sick of these do you like X and why? threads. Perhaps I should ignore them, but there's too much hate in the world. Let's try and just accept people and not make them out to be the devil incarnate.
I shall await the lambasting...