Bethanie Mattek-Sands has challenged a blogger to a tennis match over his criticism of her in recent weeks. That blogger would be me, Larry Brown.
Bethanie must have come across this post and this post I wrote about her last week and tracked me down on twitter to let me hear about it. The challenge was issued immediately.
“Since you manage to talk some smack how about we get you out on the court during the US Open series!?! Put up or shut up RIGHT???” she wrote in a twitter message to me.
Naturally I was taken aback, but I told her I was in Los Angeles and that we could meet at the WTA event in Carlsbad (San Diego area) to get it on. She wrote back saying “Ill even spot you a few games maybe even a set?? You even think you could take a game off me!?!?”
At that point I told her she wouldn’t win more than three points against me if we played a set, and that made her even more eager to play. “Oh this is tooooo much, please have as many fans and or media there as possible in Carlsbad. This will be EPIC!” Mattek-Sands wrote.
I wasn’t messing around either. If she goes to the Carlsbad tournament, you better believe I’ll be there for a challenge match. The only issue is actually getting her to come out for the event.
“I’m gonna have to get the wild card for the tournament now as I was not gonna play it, but now I have a reason to start earlier!” she said.
All Bethanie needs to know is I’ve already begun training in preparation for the challenge. Now she just needs to take her own advice and “put up or shut up!” because I’ll be there and I’ll be ready.
