You might notice the Serena respect thread I. I am adding to that discussion.

If the behavior that I experienced involving the Williams sisters is representative of how they deal with people day-in, day-out then the reason they may not get much respect is readily explainable/apparent. I was at the Australian Open when the girls were just starting to win big matches and events (mid-90s). I was staying in the same hotel as ...

What absolute bunk. Where do you come up with this stuff? Free dinners at Wimbledon. Unless you lived in Germany during the Becker-Graf-Stich glory years of German tennis, can speak and read fluent German you cannot possibly analyze and debate the German tax and legal systems credibly. Becker was convicted and given probation for flaunting ...

Your anecdotal case study (i.e. the Graf case) in no way reflects the reality of the German tax system and related judicial consequences pertaining to tax evation which as with other crimes is one of the most, if not the most liberal penal system in the world. There was nothing ''dubious'' about Peter Graf's tax case, he was accused and found ...

What uninformed hubris! H1N! can destroy the most fit individual with numerous young and fit athletes already succumbing to this virus.

vinko:In fairness to Boris, Germany's tax collectors are vicious fanatics who want to make a name for themselves by bringing down a famous person. They are relentless and they do not want to hear anything that disagrees with them. They have forced most of Germany's athletes and entertainers to flee the country. Boris could have stayed ...

Not sure if anyone else brought up this angle. One might speculate that Agassi acted preemptively to beat any potential future extorter or blackmailer from spillng the beans. Perhaps he got wind of a plot on the part of someone in the know going public with all the dirty details. Someone like Agassi who most lkely does not need the money, could, ...

Are screen aliases really anonymous/protected/confidential or can their ''owners'' be discerned by TW staffers? And, I didn't think about not wanting to reveal personal email addresses in the forum; but I also assumed by the time anyone got around to playing with one another actual personal emails would have been exchanged to take things off ...

hairload: I dont think any of us are hitting crack pipes or each other   FUNNY :)

Just curious, why don't involved tennis players on this board use their own email accounts to set up hitting appointments etc.? I could speculate but I won't.