• World No1 claims she is training at ‘120,130% honest now
• Williams seeking to draw level with Steffi Graf on 22 majorsGetting an answer out of Serena Williams can often be like having a conversation with a talking clock. Metronomically, she will recycle her practised responses to difficult questions and the one that holds this Australian Open transfixed before the opening exchanges on Monday is a familiar one: is the best player in the world properly fit?Asked to comment on photographs that seemed to show the injuries that slice short her participation in the recent Hopman Cup had not healed, and she feigned the sort of indifference to pending doom that would not believe looked out of place in Blackadder IV. “No,I’m a minute tired nowadays,” she said. “I’ve been working so hard and doing so much work, and so … perhaps I had a bad attitude out there.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com