Serena Williams moves advanced to next annular of US Open, admirers appearance passion, emotion, adherence - There’s fandom, and there’s how actor Sandra Bernhard feels about Serena Williams.
“It’s visceral, it’s emotional,” Bernhard says. “She’s an American dream. To see a woman like Serena — with the strength, the grace, the beauty, the ability — just accumulate aggressive through ... it’s something that’s important and capital for our culture.”
Racism, sexism and added capacity appear up, too, and that’s just in the aboriginal 5 annual talking to Bernhard about her admired athlete.
Williams, 33, can arm-twist that affectionate of animation in her fans. It owes to her on-court constancy and arete and conceivably aswell to protectiveness accustomed her detractors, abounding and sometimes acerbic in their comments on the Web.
By far the a lot of accepted changeable tennis amateur on amusing media, Williams has added than 5 actor followers on Twitter and 1.8 actor on Instagram. She aswell has a countless of celebrity fans, including J.K. Rowling, Kerry Washington, Drake, Kim Kardashian West, Michelle Obama and Kobe Bryant.
Bernhard, 60, has watched Williams from the start, through anniversary of her 21 Grand Slam singles titles, and likens the acquaintance to watching “your own child.” She marvels at Williams’ power, conditioning, angles and returns.
“It’s an affected game, it’s a admirable game, it’s a assertive game,” Bernhard says. “I can’t blink if I’m watching her.”
Like abounding fans, Bernhard is awesome and has altered arresting mechanisms during Williams’ matches. She ability about-face her accouterments in a assertive direction, absolute incantations or bend in specific positions to accredit activity flow.
“I’m cuckoo crazy,” Bernhard says.
Diano Eko gets it. The 34-year-old Indonesian was absorbed on watching his hero in getting if Williams won the 2009 Australian Open. He acclimated a year’s accumulation to armamentarium the trip, and if his bang-up didn’t let him yield abundant time off, Eko quit.
“It was all annual it,” says Eko, who at the time was an annual administrator for a all-around ad agency. “Serena concluded up acceptable the title. She and Venus won the doubles title. It’s one of the best decisions I anytime made.”
And it paved the way for Eko’s new career as a tennis analyst. If he wrote about his acquaintance on Facebook, a TV ambassador saw it and arrive him to audience for Indonesian sports approach MNC Sports.
Eko has formed as a TV analyst for six years and aswell does plan for Fox Sports Indonesia. He has been on air for abounding Williams matches. Yes, he sometimes gets emotional, abnormally during Grand Slam clash wins.
“My articulation will be a bit shaky, and I’ll tend to be anapestic about everything,” Eko says. “But I haven’t accustomed any complaints from admirers for getting biased, so I assumption I’ve been accomplishing something right.”
Eko, too, roots for Williams partly for affidavit afar from serves and arena strokes. It began if he watched account footage of her abominable 2001 Indian Wells semifinal. “I watched a bounded 19-year-old amateur getting booed by a adverse crowd, in foreground of her family, and still administer to win not alone the bout but the situation. It was amazing,” Eko says.
Die-hard fan Tony Carmody, a 28-year-old Wisconsin-based IT professional, is fatigued to Williams’ aplomb and admiration to improve. “I adulation Serena the athlete. I could watch her convenance serve for hours,” he says. “It’s like Peyton Manning throwing a football or Michael Jordan ablution a basketball. It’s just one of those greatest anytime shots in all of sports that is amazing to see in person.”
Her admirers adulation her for all address of things and appearance it in abundant ways. Glance at the TennisForum.com threads, “You apperceive you’re a Serena fan” and “When (and why) did U become a Serena fan?” to get a sample.
Eko addendum that a subset of Williams admirers “go crazy on amusing media,” abacus they’re added acute than “even Maria Sharapova admirers and determined Ana Ivanovic fans.” He suspects some are aggravating to be careful because of all they feel she has endured.
“The ‘Rena Army’ is abundant like Serena herself,” Carmody says. “In the accomplished Serena has discussed her compartmentalized yet actual altered personalities, and in the Serena fan base, like all sports fan bases, you’ll acquisition your fair allotment of Summers, Megans and of advance Laquandas.”
Summer, Megan and Laquanda are Williams’ assorted personas that she has discussed in the past. (As for Laquanda, “You cantankerous her, again she snaps. ... She’s nuts,” Serena already said.)
The calendar-year Grand Slam would beggarly a abundant accord to her fans. Alone three women accept won all four majors in a individual year: Maureen Connolly Brinker, Margaret Court and Steffi Graf. Court holds the almanac with 24 above championships.
“I wish Serena to win 25 Grand Slams,” Bernhard says. “I anticipate she can go accomplished Margaret Court and yield it to a akin no one has taken it to.”
“It’s visceral, it’s emotional,” Bernhard says. “She’s an American dream. To see a woman like Serena — with the strength, the grace, the beauty, the ability — just accumulate aggressive through ... it’s something that’s important and capital for our culture.”
Williams, 33, can arm-twist that affectionate of animation in her fans. It owes to her on-court constancy and arete and conceivably aswell to protectiveness accustomed her detractors, abounding and sometimes acerbic in their comments on the Web.
By far the a lot of accepted changeable tennis amateur on amusing media, Williams has added than 5 actor followers on Twitter and 1.8 actor on Instagram. She aswell has a countless of celebrity fans, including J.K. Rowling, Kerry Washington, Drake, Kim Kardashian West, Michelle Obama and Kobe Bryant.
Bernhard, 60, has watched Williams from the start, through anniversary of her 21 Grand Slam singles titles, and likens the acquaintance to watching “your own child.” She marvels at Williams’ power, conditioning, angles and returns.
“It’s an affected game, it’s a admirable game, it’s a assertive game,” Bernhard says. “I can’t blink if I’m watching her.”
Like abounding fans, Bernhard is awesome and has altered arresting mechanisms during Williams’ matches. She ability about-face her accouterments in a assertive direction, absolute incantations or bend in specific positions to accredit activity flow.
“I’m cuckoo crazy,” Bernhard says.
Diano Eko gets it. The 34-year-old Indonesian was absorbed on watching his hero in getting if Williams won the 2009 Australian Open. He acclimated a year’s accumulation to armamentarium the trip, and if his bang-up didn’t let him yield abundant time off, Eko quit.
“It was all annual it,” says Eko, who at the time was an annual administrator for a all-around ad agency. “Serena concluded up acceptable the title. She and Venus won the doubles title. It’s one of the best decisions I anytime made.”
And it paved the way for Eko’s new career as a tennis analyst. If he wrote about his acquaintance on Facebook, a TV ambassador saw it and arrive him to audience for Indonesian sports approach MNC Sports.
Eko has formed as a TV analyst for six years and aswell does plan for Fox Sports Indonesia. He has been on air for abounding Williams matches. Yes, he sometimes gets emotional, abnormally during Grand Slam clash wins.
“My articulation will be a bit shaky, and I’ll tend to be anapestic about everything,” Eko says. “But I haven’t accustomed any complaints from admirers for getting biased, so I assumption I’ve been accomplishing something right.”
Eko, too, roots for Williams partly for affidavit afar from serves and arena strokes. It began if he watched account footage of her abominable 2001 Indian Wells semifinal. “I watched a bounded 19-year-old amateur getting booed by a adverse crowd, in foreground of her family, and still administer to win not alone the bout but the situation. It was amazing,” Eko says.
Die-hard fan Tony Carmody, a 28-year-old Wisconsin-based IT professional, is fatigued to Williams’ aplomb and admiration to improve. “I adulation Serena the athlete. I could watch her convenance serve for hours,” he says. “It’s like Peyton Manning throwing a football or Michael Jordan ablution a basketball. It’s just one of those greatest anytime shots in all of sports that is amazing to see in person.”
Her admirers adulation her for all address of things and appearance it in abundant ways. Glance at the TennisForum.com threads, “You apperceive you’re a Serena fan” and “When (and why) did U become a Serena fan?” to get a sample.
Eko addendum that a subset of Williams admirers “go crazy on amusing media,” abacus they’re added acute than “even Maria Sharapova admirers and determined Ana Ivanovic fans.” He suspects some are aggravating to be careful because of all they feel she has endured.
“The ‘Rena Army’ is abundant like Serena herself,” Carmody says. “In the accomplished Serena has discussed her compartmentalized yet actual altered personalities, and in the Serena fan base, like all sports fan bases, you’ll acquisition your fair allotment of Summers, Megans and of advance Laquandas.”
Summer, Megan and Laquanda are Williams’ assorted personas that she has discussed in the past. (As for Laquanda, “You cantankerous her, again she snaps. ... She’s nuts,” Serena already said.)
The calendar-year Grand Slam would beggarly a abundant accord to her fans. Alone three women accept won all four majors in a individual year: Maureen Connolly Brinker, Margaret Court and Steffi Graf. Court holds the almanac with 24 above championships.
“I wish Serena to win 25 Grand Slams,” Bernhard says. “I anticipate she can go accomplished Margaret Court and yield it to a akin no one has taken it to.”
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