Wednesday, September 09, 2009

US Open

It all began inauspiciously when Oudin's youngest sister, Christina, apparently not a spelling bee, spelled "BELIEVE" as "BELEIVE" when asked by Pam Shriver, one of the female commentators, to spell the catch word Oudin has been using to propell her all the way to the quarterfinal of this US Open, before the beginning of the match. Oudin proceeded to play the match against 19 year old Wozniacki from Denmark. She was tight and nervous and never got herself in the zone. In the end, Wozniacki didn't break much of a sweat to win the match in two sets. Oudin was visibly disappointed and on the verge of tears. As if it wasn't bad enough for Oudin, Shriver did the unthinkable, she went to interview Oudin right away as in "right now" as Oudin was overheard asking her back. Shriver got her on court interview in front of everyone in the audience and at home and prefaced it with an opening "We don't usually interview the loser ..." immediately followed by "but you are not a loser ..." blah blah blah if that will kind of make it right. Why choose the word "loser" to begin with, it's such a bad word choice. I think Pam Shriver should be suspended from interviewing for the rest of this tournament. She needs to go to one of those sensitivity workshop.

2 comments:

  1. OMG, how insensitive indeed. That so-called interviewer deserves a right slap in the face. And given her surname, is she related to the Kennedy clan in some remote fashion? (am thinking Maria Shriver aka the Terminator's wife?) Not that her connections (if she does have any) would redeem her for her atrocious interview style one jot.

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  2. Usually I have a high threshold for stupidity and bad humor. But I think she really shouldn't use the word loser on a 17 year old even she negated it right away. I just checked wiki, she is the first cousin of Maria Shriver so yes they are related.

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