How fickle is the Australian media. They are praising Dokic for? Why for making it through a few rounds of tennis until she was the sole Aussie standing. Thus she is the golden girl.
A few years ago she trashed Australia and the Australian public. Yes some of her issue stem from feral, money grubbing father but that is no reason to suddenly be gushing over her now. She denounced her Australian citizenship but all is forgiven if you do something for 'Australia'
It doesn't matter if you are a rapist, murderer, terrorist all are welcome and embraced. Dokic is of course none of these but it shows how weak we are as a nation when we can so easily welcome someone like her without question. All part of the endemic attitudes that will allow the aforementioned undesirables to also be welcome here.
The more of these we allow in the faster becomes the self-destruction. It is a fairly simple equation but one our leaders do not seem to be able to understand or envision.
And another thing. What is with all these players doing the Hewitt, in your opponent's face, fist pump? This is bad sportsmanship and shows an immature personality. Keep it out of the sport.
After her battle in the fourth round though I find that I have some respect for her determination. Right at the end she twisted her ankle but instead of the more common time out she battled on to win her game. She gets points for that.
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