This is what Serena's mom, Oracene Price, had to say after Serena's Wimbledon loss (to Venus)...."Serena thinks everything is supposed to go her way, that’s the bottom line. She thinks that’s the way it’s supposed to go in life. But this is life. She’s going to have to learn how to suck things up. Say, ‘OK, I’m not going to win everything. I just got to be, this is going to make me a better person, this will build character for myself and I have to learn how to lose. I might not be happy about it, but I just have to go on, go on and say, you know what, I didn't get this one, but I'm getting the next one." To further elaborate on Serena's fiercely competitive nature, her sister, Lyndrea, said Serena to this day can't even bear to lose when they play the card game "spoons." Sandra Harwitt (Espn.com) wrote..."It should be made clear that being a bit of a sore loser does not mean that Serena exhibits unsportsmanlike behavior. The fact that she conceded a game point in the ninth game of the first set to Venus during the final after umpire Carlos Ramos called for them to replay the point, is a testament to her fairness in battle. Certainly, Serena's passion for competition and success supports her future candidacy as one of the all-time greats of the game. She's already won eight Grand Slam titles, at least one at each of the four majors, dating back to her first as a 17-year-old at the 1999 U.S. Open. She's captured 31 career titles to date and is a former world No. 1. And she's only 26, so there's plenty more opportunity ahead."
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Serenaslam, do you know who was Oracene talking to when she made that statement? Please tell me it was not a reporter. If it was a reporter or any other public figure, then that was a completely ignorant, selfish, and detrimental statement to make about her own daughter!! One would think that Oracene is old enough to know better than to give the media fuel to burn her OWN DAUGHTER! She should have never made such a statement in public like that. That is something that she should've told Serena privately and corrected her daughter.
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