Courting fashion (part 2)

So, here I was, complaining about the Williams sisters not giving credit to their opponents (see previous post, Courting fashion). Even as I was typing, Serena's lips were moving:

From Williams’s perspective, she beat herself. “I think she made a lot of lucky shots and I made a lot of errors,” Williams, the eighth seed, said sourly during her postmatch news conference. [New York Times]

I saw the match in its entirety. The truth is that Serena was almost never in control during the encounter. In fact, Justine was serving for the first set when the score was just 5-3, and the match could have been a lot shorter if she could have held serve. The second set, in which Serena was blown away at 6-1, showed just how much Serena lacks on the court: muscle cannot always overcome consistent strategy and execution.

But yes, the world is indeed a simple place. At least, it makes it easy to predict the Williams' press conferences.