Mary Jo Fernandez needs to tell the Williams sisters to "Get Bent".

There is a ITF rule that states that a player must make themselves available for Fed Cup duty in 2 years out of the 4 to be eligible to play for their country in the Olympics.  Now this does not mean they have to play in every Fed Cup tie for 2 years.  In the least a player can play once each year.  Lets think about that, all you have to do is show up and play for 2 weekends in four years, and you are eligible to compete in the Olympic Games.  Sounds pretty simple, right?

Well not for the Williams sisters.  If they can't make a little money off of it, they will be sure to think of an injury or excuse for why they cannot play.  According to ITF officials, they have ruled that Venus and Serena have not made themselves available for Fed Cup duty in 2009 and 2010.  So that means they must play atleast once in 2011 and 2012 to be in the 2012 Olympics.

Here is when it gets a little tricky.  The U.S. has a Fed Cup matchup in April, and if they lose this matchup there will be no more Fed Cup ties for the U.S. in 2011.  So that means if the Williams sisters decide to get their nuts waxed that weekend they will be ineligible to represent their country in 2012.

Since when did the Williams sisters care about playing for their country?  They get the opportunity to do it 3-4 times a year and decline to do so in rare pathetic fashion.  If there is no money or a big time spotlight on it, they want nothing to do with it.  For instance in 2009 Serena Williams confimed that she would play in the Fed Cup final against Italy, 3 days later during the Tour Championship she pulled out of the Fed Cup final due to fatigue, yet 2 days after that she won the Tour Championship.

That would be like you or I shooting hoops in the yard, and your husband/wife/girlfriend asking you to take out the trash, you responding by saying "I'm too tired to do it." and then continuing to shoot hoops for another hour.  Its horse shit, plain and simple.

While the Williams sisters are getting vasectomies, plugging garbage on QVC, walking the red carpet for crappy films, going to weddings of fellow retards like LaLa and Carmelo Anthony, and players like Melanie Oudin and Bethany Mattek-Sands get on a plane and play wherever they are asked for Fed Cup.  They aren't the best players, but they actually do quite well and seem to play their best tennis while representing their country and being patriotic.  If anything, even when they lose, they are still there supporting their fellow teammates and enjoying the experience.

The Williams brats have yanked U.S. Fed Cup captain Mary Jo Fernandez's chain so many times over the past few years by committing to play, yet to pull out due to hypochondria.  Fernandez needs to take the power back and stick it in their ear and not even ask them to play.  Let the players who have been loyal to Fernandez like Mattek-Sands, Oudin, and Liezel Huber play.  Its just utter garbage that Venus and Serena can have total control over something that in reality they don't care about.  Yet will pretend to care  once it comes time that it becomes in their best interest that they play.

In reality they are selfish in their tennis outlook and as fake as that garbage Serena peddles on QVC.  The USTA and ITF need to stand up and take a stand and not bend the rules if for some reason these babies come up with another excuse.  But we all know they don't have a back bone and will let Serena and Venus make the rules.

They need to grow a sac as big as Venus' and then maybe they could make a stand on this issue.