If she plays this week at the Ericsson Open in suburban Miami, you can bet people will be even more suspicious. That's how rumors get started. I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth. The thing is, the Williams sisters pull stuff all the time. Granted, they aren't the only ones.
Tennis players are notorious for dreaming up phantom injuries to get out of playing.
But we're not talking about the Maleeva sisters. We're talking about two of the game's biggest drawing cards. And there have been repeated questions, even from big names such as Martina Hingis and Lindsay Davenport, about whether the Williams family pre-determines the outcome when Venus and Serena face each other. It came up again in Indian Wells. After Elena Dementieva lost to Venus to set up the Venus-Serena semifinal, Dementieva was asked which Williams sister would win.