Dick Enberg causes Henin and fans pain
Twice Justine Henin has won the US Open, and twice they have got her name wrong. In 2003, an executive for the main sponsor congratulated “Christine”, and this year it was the turn of Dick Enberg, a television anchor man and the on-court master of ceremonies, to make an unforced error by calling her by her defunct, pre-divorce married name, “Henin-Hardenne”.
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Oh, her, Justine Henin, the world No 1. The stumbling over her name made it sound as though she is a ‘Who’s that again?’ player, when she probably has a gold-embossed entry in the ‘Who’s Who’ of tennis, and rightly so. Recognition, and getting your name up there in neon, is everything in the celebrity-obsessed United States, but you have to wonder how many times she has to be champion at Flushing Meadows before she is referred to by her correct name on this side of the Atlantic.
Telegraph
No wonder why she basically has no love for the US Open.
It can’t be THAT hard to get names right - can it? I mean, people have harder jobs, and they could always hand folks a reminder card or something. Considering Dick Enberg commentates matches, he shouldn’t have made this mistake.