Kieran said:
Thanks Moxie!
I didn't know that about Moya: bass turd is the right word for him. Snake and rat, at the same time. She seems to have come through that. I'll watch her career more closely, she's one I'll root for now!
Pretty girl, too. I noticed that last week when she won IW... :heart:
For the record, while Flavia does call Moyá a "bastard" twice in just the few excepts I read, she doesn't make him the author of her destruction. She rightfully, I think, blames herself, for losing "herself," and falling so far away from her own goals. In his defense, I think Carlos has become a respectable citizen…seemly committed partner, father and DC coach. What happened between them happened 7 years ago. I find Flavia's story poignant in it's honesty, about how hard and long it took her to get over it, but also interesting in the "tennis" sense, in that tennis players have real lives and are actual people. We tend to treat what they do on court as if it's everything about them. I think that Flavia was unusually forthcoming, but as she said, that's her, and she wanted people to know her. That seems fair, for a public persona to have her say, and, at least to me, it was compelling.