Asclepias
Diamond Member
That was hella stupid. Her hair beads?Her hair beads created an unfair advantage?
Back when Serena and Venus used to wear hair beads, there were continual complaints about the fact that the beads caused an inordinate amount of noise during points. Both sisters were actually given a surprising degree of latitude for quite a long time. In a game where it is expected that points be played without any noise, other than those sounds that naturally arise from the act of playing, the hair bead issue eventually became a hot button issue for a brief time, because they were simply permitted to have these beads that created extra noise. If their opponents had, for example, been wearing sneakers that had little speakers in them that loudly played recorded sounds with every step, they would have been penalized. However, the Williams sisters enjoyed quite a stretch where they were allowed to do something their opponents were not allowed to do. Thus, there was an unfair advantage.