As the tenth anniversary of the Stabbing approaches, Monica said on
Thursday that the WTA Tour is still not doing enough to protect its
players:

"You're totally accessible. There's no other sport in which you're
accessible as in tennis. It's insufficient in a lot of ways, our
accessibility to people to get us on site, in matches, after matches.
It's not just me, it's any of the high-profile players."

While we're on the subject of security, I pray that the tennis-world
may be spared from terrorist-attacks.


Monica also talked her retirement (hopefully still a long time away!):

"I might announce it, I might have a farewell tour and I might not. I
really have no idea. I don't really dwell on the past. I wish I didn't
get stabbed and I competed at the highest level for those few years,
but besides that I was very happy.

"It's hard to say `okay, this is the tournament you're going to end it
on' because really, as an athlete, you never know. If I know that in
six months I'm going to stop and I'm comfortable announcing that, then
great. If I'm not sure, then why make a point of that and say, 'one
more year, one more year'?"

Personally, I would prefer Monica to slip away quietly, without a
farewell tour. It would be too stressful for me to know that the end
was nigh, especially at Wimbledon because I always thought Monica was
destined to win Wimbledon, and her failure to do so would be my main
regret when she retires.

So I would prefer Monica to announce her immediate retirement rather
than "I'll retire at the end of the season", but the easiest way for
me would be if she just stopped playing and never came back, with no
announcement at all. That's the way I appear to be losing Karina
Habsudová (Karina hasn't played since the Australian Open 2002 because
she ruptured her Achilles tendon), and it's less painful to come to
terms /gradually/ with the fact that she'll probably never play again.

--
Andrew Broad
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/tennis/
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/tennis/seles/