Sharapova to Take Over Number One Slot

Well, now I’m pissed. Yesterday, Justine Henin retired. I wasn’t mad or upset – maybe a little disappointed, but I wasn’t ticked. Now I am. I’ll be the first to say that I didn’t know how rankings worked when someone abruptly retired. Let me see – when was the last time a world number one left the game? Exactly. But apparently, Henin requested that she be removed from the rankings (apparently my premonition from yesterday about how this whole deal felt final is getting some proof to back it up). Now my arch nemesis Maria Sharapova will be No. 1 when the new rankings come out Monday.

Well hell.

She didn’t earn it. I don’t really care how it came about, that it was Henin’s decision and Maria didn’t ask for it, she inherited the crown and that doesn’t sit so well with me. I wouldn’t be okay with it no matter who was moving into the number one slot. I’m just doubly not okay with it because of who it happens to be.

Well hell…that’s really all I have to say.

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Maria Sharapova serves at the Bausch & Lomb Championships looking appropriately awkward.