Shank's Niece Weighs In On The Serena Williams Gasket Blowing

Since Shank's not ripping on writing about local professional athletes, we get a decent column from an interview with Shank's niece, Meghann Shaughnessy:

Meghann Shaughnessy was a professional tennis player for 19 years before retiring to raise a family six years ago. She was the world’s 11th-ranked female player in 2001. She played more than 1,200 professional matches, including three singles matches against Serena Williams (winning one, losing two) and seven against Venus Williams (2-5).

She was a teammate of the Williams sisters on America’s Federation Cup team captained by Billie Jean King in 2003. She played numerous matches officiated by veteran chair umpire Carlos Ramos. She is also the daughter of my brother.

By now, just about everyone other than Donald Trump (did I miss a tweet?), Alan Dershowitz, and Kendrick Lamar has published an opinion piece about Serena Williams’s meltdown in her US Open final loss to Naomi Osaka Saturday. Serena’s behavior has been excused by many (“she was mistreated because she’s a woman,’’ “male players get away with what Serena did”) while another segment of our global population simply believes Serena was being a poor sport, incapable of accepting defeat, and making the story about herself while deflecting the spotlight from a worthy opponent.

Go read the comments if you want to read inane crap from the PC / snowflake crowd who complain about nearly everything and keep bringing up the usual bogus shit about 'sexism, 'racism' and Shank 'mansplaining'. What a bunch of fucking babies.