Venus defiant despite humiliating setback
Venus Williams insists she remains a “great player” regardless of evidence to the contrary provided by her humiliating loss to 15-year-old Sesil Karatantcheva at the French Open.
A dismal 2004 looks like being followed by another year of underachievement from a player who around the turn of the century looked like dominating the women’s game for the next decade.
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