[Adwetyren]

Pierce Not Ready to Retire
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: December 26, 2008
The two-time Grand Slam champion Mary Pierce is not ready to hang up her racket just yet. Despite being sidelined by a knee injury since 2006, Pierce told the sports daily L’Équipe that she would like to play again at the French Open.

“I care about Roland Garros,” she said. “If I could stand in center court for one match, that would already be a big victory.”

Pierce, who turns 34 next month, won the French Open in 2000 and the Australian Open in 1995. She ruptured a ligament in her left knee in October 2006 in Linz, Austria, in a match against Vera Zvonareva. She has not competed professionally since.

“I don’t feel it’s the right moment” to announce her retirement, she told L’Équipe, adding that her left leg was weak but that tests indicated her knee had recovered.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/26/sp...OTREA_BRF.html

[inmeirulez]

That'd be nice. And no reason it can't happen. Though 2010 is her scheduled year to return to the top, right?

[MaickiP]

I thought this would, for sure, be another joke thread. 34!? Good luck Mary.

[MaickiP]

You Can Do it Mary!!!

[penpizdes]

You Can Do it Mary!!!

Thats why I love Jill, she's so supportive of her fellow players!

[Adwetyren]

Thats why I love Jill, she's so supportive of her fellow players!

Actually, Jill not THAT alturistic. She's just hoping there will be another lady in the locker room that would have a spare pair of Depends in a pinch. Rumour was that at Indian Wells, she had to turn to Tina Bammer-Gschwendtner for help.

[DoctoNilsonDen]

Actually, Jill not THAT alturistic. She's just hoping there will be another lady in the locker room that would have a spare pair of Depends in a pinch. Rumour was that at Indian Wells, she had to turn to Tina Bammer-Gschwendtner for help.

Moose: While of course one must always concern oneself with the, ahem, diminishing likes of the Serra Zanetti sisters and all- do ya truly think that this and the diapers of the "Apparently Test-Tubed-Based-Spawn-Of-Past-Her-Childbearing-Years Sybille" Tina Bammer-Gschwendtner are the worst of the concerns for the WTA?

WELL, just wait until Greta Arn toddles into her next qualifying locker room and mistakes the Depends of one of the WTA Biddies for a colorful bandana.

"And DEAR GOD, Greta, that ain't the map of Hungary on your bandana, either!!!!!"

[seooptiman]

I hope she draws Elena Dementieva Round One.

[FateHostera]

I'd love to see Mary play some more. Even a love and one thumping by Tammy T on Court Suzanne Lenglen would be wonderful. Well, not wonderful, but maybe they'd show the carnage...