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syt defeats gorilla
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i can't even tell if the gorilla is male or female.
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Syt deserved the win...
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Gorilla can only be satisfied by large banana.
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Picture of a yellow monkey.
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YR father and mother is a monkey....that explains everything
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nice pic!
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yes. that's true... but nong nong ago.
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eh as a follow-up observation you are too racist la. Williams = gorilla, but!
Picture of a yellow monkey.
I love some of the Indian girls I meet. actually in sinkieland, there's a higher chance I will be attracted to a desi babe than a cheena girl.
My fave is her. She's one of the most beautiful women on the planet :
beauty comes in all races as does ugliness.
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With such stupid comments by the gorilla...no wonder minorities etc are treated with disdain
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Serena Williams vows to continue fight for equality, but wait goes on for her next major title
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Serena Williams says she'll never stop fighting for equality
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After a highly publicised comeback post-pregnancy break and a resounding thumping in the Wimbledon singles final, what does Serena Williams have to do to clinch another grand slam title?
This is the question being asked afterWilliams's sluggish showing in a 6-2, 6-2 loss to Romania's Simona Halep in the women's decider at the All England Club, making it three consecutive grand slam final losses for the American, as she again fell short of equalling Margaret Court's all-time record of 24 major titles.
That prompted a question from a journalist at Williams's press conference, with the reporter referencing former champion Billie Jean King's commentary earlier in the tournament.
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"I would like to see her put everything else aside from that. She's got people working on these things," said King, a noted advocate for women's equality.
"This is just a wish I have, it's not fair to her, but I wish she would just make a commitment for the next year-and-a-half to two years and just say, 'I'm going to absolutely devote what's necessary for my tennis so when I look in the mirror when I'm older, that I can go back in my mind and know I gave everything I had and be happy'.
"But if she's happy doing it this way, it's fine. It's not about us."
King said on Twitter that she would "never ask anyone to stop fighting for equality", praising Williams's work.
Nevertheless, the issue has brought where Williams goes from here into sharper focus.
Williams's feats since return to tennis remain exemplary
Williams drew universal acclaim for her return to tennis in early 2018 after giving birth to her first child, Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr.
Her announcement that she was 20 weeks' pregnant in April 2017 meant she would have won her 2017 Australian Open title when she was approximately two months into term when she beat her sister Venus in the final in Melbourne.
PHOTO Serena Williams's tennis comeback since having her baby has been nothing short of brilliant.
AP: TIM IRELAND
Alexis was delivered by emergency caesarean section and Williams was bedridden by a number of complications from her pregnancy, including a pulmonary embolism which required multiple surgeries.
As a result of her embolism, Williams's intense coughing popped her C-section wound open — which required surgery — before doctors found a large hematoma in her abdomen, prompting another operation to prevent clots travelling into her lungs.
Williams would not return to official competition until February 2018, and returned to grand slam tennis in the French Open in May.
Her record in grand slams post-pregnancy does tell a story — she won 21 of her first 25 grand slam finals, but has now lost five of her last seven.
Getting to the three most recent finals has been remarkable. Reaching the Wimbledon final in 2018 appeared staggering so soon after her comeback, before she followed that up with a run to the US Open final, ill-fated as that turned out to be.
Playing more WTA events could be the answer
But after a third consecutive loss in a grand slam final, Williams has to assess what the remedy might be.
PHOTO Serena Williams has now fallen short in three consecutive grand slam finals.
AP: JULIO CORTEZ
Williams has had a less-intensive calendar on the WTA tour in the past two years. In her return to tennis in 2018, she played at Indian Wells and Miami before the French Open, went straight to Wimbledon before playing in two WTA tournaments before the US Open.
In 2019 she bowed out of the Australian Open in the quarter-finals before again featuring at Indian Wells and Miami, before a round-of-32 exit on the Rome clay followed by her French Open and Wimbledon campaigns. A number of these events saw her pull out with injury or illness.
But compared to 2019's recent grand slam tournament winners — Naomi Osaka (US and Australian Opens), Ashleigh Barty (French Open) and now Wimbledon winner Halep — there is a marked difference in matches played since 2018.
EMBED:Comparing Serena Williams' workload to recent Grand Slam tournament winners
In these two years, despite giving birth and dealing with several injuries, Williams has done what she does best, and strung together impressive runs at a number of grand slams — only this time, she's not sealing the deal in the finals.
But during each calendar year, her workload in the smaller WTA tournaments (such as the Sydney and Brisbane Internationals, or Indian Wells, Eastbourne, etc) is significantly smaller compared to her workaholic competitors.
The results speak for themselves. The world looked Osaka's oyster when she took out the US Open and then the Australian Open; Barty's rise to world number one on the back of her French Open triumph speaks for itself, while Halep could replicate Barty's run following Wimbledon glory.
"I don't think it was so much tension," Williams said of her Wimbledon final performance against Halep.
PHOTO Ashleigh Barty has worked like a trojan on the WTA tour circuit, culminating in a French Open title and number one ranking.
REUTERS: KAI PFAFFENBACH
Of course, just being on the precipice of the milestone 24 major titles could be a mental hurdle in itself, as Williams alluded to.
"Someone told me I shouldn't look at the records anymore and that I should just focus on my game and that's kind of been what I've been doing since I got to 18 [grand slam titles]," Williams told her media conference shortly after the controversial King question.
"In the meantime I was pregnant and had a baby, so that definitely plays a little bit into it.
"But I don't know, I feel like I'm just really on this journey of just doing the best that I can and playing the best that I can when I can."
Has pregnancy, or age, led to a decline?
Perhaps the inescapable question surrounds Williams's recovery from a complicated pregnancy, or just the natural decline that comes with age.
Are new mothers better athletes?
The physical resiliency pregnancy demands, some claim, has lasting benefit to elite athletes. Though its impact may be mental rather than physical.
But experts have said the pregnancy need not impact Williams's tennis, and in many ways could improve her game.
Dr Susan White, a sports physician who has worked for decades in the Olympic and Paralympic sphere within netball and swimming, told the ABC in 2018 that having a baby will not worsen your athletic abilities.
"Is it going to make you a better athlete? Maybe, because you learn a whole lot of things about yourself and the practicalities of that," Dr White said.
"The general feeling is that [if athletes do improve] it's actually a combination of things, most of which are psychological and practical.
"If you can come back and be an athlete and manage having a baby and push through all of the stuff that goes with that, then you also understand perhaps different limits than you had before, you have to be more organised, just to be more focused, all of these things."
As for the age question, it needs no further refutation than a quick glance atwhat Roger Federer is achieving at the venerable age of 37.
Ultimately, Williams's professed approach of taking it one game at a time will be the only way to see herself through to matching, and possibly exceeding, Court's record.
Williams has seven Australian Open titles to her name, six US Opens, three French Opens and seven trophies picked up at Wimbledon.
Court clinched 11 Australian Opens, as well as five US and French Opens, and three Wimbledon titles.
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VIDEO 0:42
Serena Williams says she'll never stop fighting for equality
ABC NEWS
After a highly publicised comeback post-pregnancy break and a resounding thumping in the Wimbledon singles final, what does Serena Williams have to do to clinch another grand slam title?
This is the question being asked afterWilliams's sluggish showing in a 6-2, 6-2 loss to Romania's Simona Halep in the women's decider at the All England Club, making it three consecutive grand slam final losses for the American, as she again fell short of equalling Margaret Court's all-time record of 24 major titles.
That prompted a question from a journalist at Williams's press conference, with the reporter referencing former champion Billie Jean King's commentary earlier in the tournament.
The reporter asked: "There have been a few comments made in the last couple of weeks from people like Billie Jean King that maybe you should stop being a celebrity for a year and stop fighting for equality and just focus on tennis. How do you respond to that?"
Williams, 37, gave the question short shrift."The day I stop fighting for equality and for people that look like you and me, will be the day I am in my grave," she said.
The journalist's question has come under some scrutiny after perhaps misquoting King. Speaking to the BBC earlier in the Wimbledon tournament, King said in chasing the causes that she does, it did make winning another grand slam event harder for Williams.Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume.
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Simona Halep dominates Serena Williams in Wimbledon final
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"I would like to see her put everything else aside from that. She's got people working on these things," said King, a noted advocate for women's equality.
"This is just a wish I have, it's not fair to her, but I wish she would just make a commitment for the next year-and-a-half to two years and just say, 'I'm going to absolutely devote what's necessary for my tennis so when I look in the mirror when I'm older, that I can go back in my mind and know I gave everything I had and be happy'.
"But if she's happy doing it this way, it's fine. It's not about us."
King said on Twitter that she would "never ask anyone to stop fighting for equality", praising Williams's work.
Nevertheless, the issue has brought where Williams goes from here into sharper focus.
Williams's feats since return to tennis remain exemplary
Williams drew universal acclaim for her return to tennis in early 2018 after giving birth to her first child, Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr.
Her announcement that she was 20 weeks' pregnant in April 2017 meant she would have won her 2017 Australian Open title when she was approximately two months into term when she beat her sister Venus in the final in Melbourne.
PHOTO Serena Williams's tennis comeback since having her baby has been nothing short of brilliant.
AP: TIM IRELAND
Alexis was delivered by emergency caesarean section and Williams was bedridden by a number of complications from her pregnancy, including a pulmonary embolism which required multiple surgeries.
As a result of her embolism, Williams's intense coughing popped her C-section wound open — which required surgery — before doctors found a large hematoma in her abdomen, prompting another operation to prevent clots travelling into her lungs.
Williams would not return to official competition until February 2018, and returned to grand slam tennis in the French Open in May.
Her record in grand slams post-pregnancy does tell a story — she won 21 of her first 25 grand slam finals, but has now lost five of her last seven.
Getting to the three most recent finals has been remarkable. Reaching the Wimbledon final in 2018 appeared staggering so soon after her comeback, before she followed that up with a run to the US Open final, ill-fated as that turned out to be.
Playing more WTA events could be the answer
But after a third consecutive loss in a grand slam final, Williams has to assess what the remedy might be.
PHOTO Serena Williams has now fallen short in three consecutive grand slam finals.
AP: JULIO CORTEZ
Williams has had a less-intensive calendar on the WTA tour in the past two years. In her return to tennis in 2018, she played at Indian Wells and Miami before the French Open, went straight to Wimbledon before playing in two WTA tournaments before the US Open.
In 2019 she bowed out of the Australian Open in the quarter-finals before again featuring at Indian Wells and Miami, before a round-of-32 exit on the Rome clay followed by her French Open and Wimbledon campaigns. A number of these events saw her pull out with injury or illness.
But compared to 2019's recent grand slam tournament winners — Naomi Osaka (US and Australian Opens), Ashleigh Barty (French Open) and now Wimbledon winner Halep — there is a marked difference in matches played since 2018.
EMBED:Comparing Serena Williams' workload to recent Grand Slam tournament winners
In these two years, despite giving birth and dealing with several injuries, Williams has done what she does best, and strung together impressive runs at a number of grand slams — only this time, she's not sealing the deal in the finals.
But during each calendar year, her workload in the smaller WTA tournaments (such as the Sydney and Brisbane Internationals, or Indian Wells, Eastbourne, etc) is significantly smaller compared to her workaholic competitors.
The results speak for themselves. The world looked Osaka's oyster when she took out the US Open and then the Australian Open; Barty's rise to world number one on the back of her French Open triumph speaks for itself, while Halep could replicate Barty's run following Wimbledon glory.
"I don't think it was so much tension," Williams said of her Wimbledon final performance against Halep.
"I don't know. I don't know. I just have to figure out a way to win a final.
"Maybe playing other finals outside of grand slams would be really helpful just to kind of get in the groove, so by the time I get to a grand slam final I'm kind of used to what to do and how to play."PHOTO Ashleigh Barty has worked like a trojan on the WTA tour circuit, culminating in a French Open title and number one ranking.
REUTERS: KAI PFAFFENBACH
Of course, just being on the precipice of the milestone 24 major titles could be a mental hurdle in itself, as Williams alluded to.
"Someone told me I shouldn't look at the records anymore and that I should just focus on my game and that's kind of been what I've been doing since I got to 18 [grand slam titles]," Williams told her media conference shortly after the controversial King question.
"In the meantime I was pregnant and had a baby, so that definitely plays a little bit into it.
"But I don't know, I feel like I'm just really on this journey of just doing the best that I can and playing the best that I can when I can."
Has pregnancy, or age, led to a decline?
Perhaps the inescapable question surrounds Williams's recovery from a complicated pregnancy, or just the natural decline that comes with age.
Are new mothers better athletes?
The physical resiliency pregnancy demands, some claim, has lasting benefit to elite athletes. Though its impact may be mental rather than physical.
But experts have said the pregnancy need not impact Williams's tennis, and in many ways could improve her game.
Dr Susan White, a sports physician who has worked for decades in the Olympic and Paralympic sphere within netball and swimming, told the ABC in 2018 that having a baby will not worsen your athletic abilities.
"Is it going to make you a better athlete? Maybe, because you learn a whole lot of things about yourself and the practicalities of that," Dr White said.
"The general feeling is that [if athletes do improve] it's actually a combination of things, most of which are psychological and practical.
"If you can come back and be an athlete and manage having a baby and push through all of the stuff that goes with that, then you also understand perhaps different limits than you had before, you have to be more organised, just to be more focused, all of these things."
As for the age question, it needs no further refutation than a quick glance atwhat Roger Federer is achieving at the venerable age of 37.
Ultimately, Williams's professed approach of taking it one game at a time will be the only way to see herself through to matching, and possibly exceeding, Court's record.
Williams has seven Australian Open titles to her name, six US Opens, three French Opens and seven trophies picked up at Wimbledon.
Court clinched 11 Australian Opens, as well as five US and French Opens, and three Wimbledon titles.
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The so called "gorilla" has achieved far more than most in this forum.
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Like king kong?based on the title, I thought its about a new movie
Simona halep is the one who had to undergo breast reduction surgery.
Some of you here will say what a waste! Lol
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/9489125/simona-halep-breast-reduction-wimbledon-2019-final/
Some of you here will say what a waste! Lol
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/9489125/simona-halep-breast-reduction-wimbledon-2019-final/
and why not? even an orang utan is desirable it seems https://metro.co.uk/2018/11/26/oran...r-jewellery-and-used-as-a-prostitute-8179714/
