Richard Williams is a friggin peanut

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A bit slow, as this all came out over a week ago but I hadn't stumbled across it until now, but Richard Williams showed what we already knew - that he is a nut job.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23400284-3162,00.html

RICHARD Williams has launched another broadside at white tennis players, claiming his daughters Venus and Serena have never been accepted.

Speaking to India's Deccan Herald, Williams used the Williams family's annual boycott of the Indian Wells tournament to deliver a stunning diatribe.

The man who described Irina Spirlea as an "ugly, white turkey" after the Romanian collided with Venus at the 1997 US Open, savaged Chris Evert and Tracy Austin.

"Tennis is a prejudice game," he said. "Well, I'm black and I'm prejudiced, very prejudiced.

"People are prejudiced in tennis. I don't think Venus or Serena was ever accepted by tennis. They never will be. But if you get some little white no-good trasher in America like Tracy Austin or Chris Evert, who cannot hit the ball, they (media) will claim this is great."

Williams said his daughters, combined winners of 14 singles majors, had been demonised.

"When my girls win, they (media) always said they won too much," he said.

"When they didn't win, something was wrong with them.

"If someone else was No. 1, it was good for tennis, if it was blacks, it was not. I think it was ridiculous what they did to my two girls."

Williams said tennis was not interested in poor socio-economic groups, claiming the finest players lived - undetected - in ghettos.

"The best players are in the ghetto here in India and in the ghetto in Compton (Los Angeles)," he said.

"Those kids don't get a chance. If you could teach them tennis, maybe in 10 years you will see real tennis players."

Rounding out an attack certain to haunt his daughters, Williams lashed Martina Navratilova, John McEnroe and Vijay Amritraj, inferring the trio was uneducated.

"You go spend 20 years playing tennis and another 20 years announcing tennis. That is 40 years of your life. You mean, you never learnt anything else?" Williams said.

 

[RichmondFan123]

He's an idiot for sure!

 

[wally funk]

he's trying to make up for the fact that damir dokic has had little to bitch about lately. tennis always needs at least one high profile idiot parent (almost always the dad) who acts the fool in the media and at tournaments.

 

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He's been plotting this outburst ever since Yuri Sharapov's Aus Open embarrassment.

 

[gopies1981]

What a Tool! Saying that Chris Evert could not hit a ball. She won 18 grand slams and had one of the best ground strokes of all-time. Just ask Martina Navratilova how good Chris's passing Shots were! she was the first tennis player to play with a double handed backhand and now 90% of tennis players play with a double handed backhand ( including the william sisters).

 

[pepsi]

Just another crazy tennis dad, another on the long list. Although he did produce two of the all time greats in womens tennis, so he did do something right.

 

[torq]

Same old shite from Williams. He's never referred to the fact that Arthur Ashe was hugely respected and James Blake is popular among fans and players. Past players like Zina Garrison and MaliVai Washington have never come out with this sort of nonsense.

 

[aaronm46]

i read somewhere that serena never signs white kids autographs, i dont know if its true though....if it is id like to punch her in the face

 

[red+black]

i read somewhere that serena never signs white kids autographs, i dont know if its true though

Not quite right. The story goes that she eats white babies.

 

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Not quite right. The story goes that she eats white babies.

White babies that ask for her autograph. She's not so cold blooded that she'd only go after innocent white babies.