Saturday, July 05, 2008

Williams vs Williams

The finals between the Williams sisters apparently presented the sports network covering the event a bit of a dilemma. During the first few minutes of the match, I was perplexed to see that the onscreen scoreboard simply displayed "Williams" and "Williams". This is of course understandable since normally only the last names of the players are shown. Even so I thought, surely they can't keep it that way throughout the match! Luckily somebody at the network must have finally realized that it was confusing because a few games later the scoreboard read "S Williams" and "V Williams". That for me was much better--but apparently not for somebody at the network because now the scoreboard reads "Serena" and "Venus".