2010 Wimbledon Williams Watch-Big Sis' Successful Opening

Venus turned 30 on June 17 and gave herself a belated birthday present today by successfully navigating her opening round match with Paraguay's Rossana de los Rios.

The five time Wimbledon champ handled her business in straight sets. She took 5-0 leads in each set before cruising to a 6-3, 6-2 victory to reach the second round.

Big Sis is now 47-3 over her career in opening matches at Grand Slam tournaments.

Venus has played in eight of the past 10 Wimbledon finals, and won the 2000, 2001, 2005, 2007 and 2008 Ladies' singles championship.

Her second round singles opponent will be Russia's Ekaterina Makarova.

Hate The Smell Of Vanilla Scented Privilege

One of the things that is maddeningly infuriating to transpeople of color when we try to interact in groups dominated by white people is the mischaracterizations that result when we speak our minds.

A POC transperson speaks their mind about a hot button issue du jour, and their critics inevitably hurl the words, 'divisive', 'verbally violent', 'angry' or 'polarizing influences' bull feces at them or whisper it to other white friends behind the POC's back.

Conversely, let a White transperson speak their mind, get mad, vent or say the exact same thing a POC transperson may have just verbalized about the issue, then it's considered 'refreshing honesty'.

Can you smell the vanilla scented double standard and privilege in the air?

Thought you could.

One other thing, I do get sick of hearing the patronizing 'watch your tone' BS. There are times when I write posts or say things critiquing various issues that you may presume I was 'angry', but actually was as calm as President Obama in a meeting with angry Republicans.

When I'm pissed off, you'll know it.

2010 Wimbledon Williams Watch-Checking Out The Draw

The draw for The Championships as 'Williams'-don is referred to across The Pond took place Friday and we now know two things.

The first is that Big Sis and Little Sis are on opposite sides of the Ladies' Singles bracket (thank God). If both win all their matches, they could meet in the Ladies' singles finals for the third consecutive year.

2004 Wimbledon champ Maria Sharapova is in Serena's section of the draw and they could potentially meet in the third round. She also has Justine Henin and Kim Clijsters on her side of the draw as well.

Venus has 2010 French Open Champ Francesca Schiavone on her side of the Ladies' singles draw with a possible meeting in the quarterfinals.

The road to Serena's fourth Ladies' single championship starts with Number one seeded Little Sis playing Michelle Larcher de Brito of Portugal.

Number two seeded Big Sis starts her quest for her sixth Wimbledon title with an opening round match against Paraguay's Rossana de los Ríos.

In the Ladies' doubles the Williams sisters are seeded Number one and will open their defense of their doubles title against the duo of fellow American Julie Ditty and the Czech Republic's Renata Voráčová.

If they capture this title, they would only need to win the US Open doubles crown to complete the calendar year doubles Grand Slam.