Sports my Mind

I read both articles about Serena Williams on both sites. From the two, I liked the one from sportsonmymind.com. While the Edge of Sports brought up good points, the other site looked at all aspects of the sport of tennis and brought up more interesting issues. The article talks about that no matter how great of a tennis player Serena Williams is she will always have a "black cloud" over her becuase of her race and gender. The author states that tennis is full of racism and the crowd prefers to see white blond women playing each other in tennis rather than a black women. The article also brings up this race issue and gender issue as a double standard. To explain, in 2001 the Australian player Lleyton Hewitt called the linesman in the tournment a Nigger. Interestingly, he was never punished for it and was seen as competitive player who just curses alot. While I understand what Serena Williams did was completely wrong and her punishment was deserved I just think the double standard on race and gender is completely unfair and it helps emphasizes the fact that womens sports are being recognized for the wrong reasons and not the right ones like Serena's amazing impact on tennis.