To the editor:

We went straight to the sports section of the LJW on July 7, expecting to savor a big spread on two world-class athletes who, just the day before, made us so proud by winning Wimbledon, No. 1 and No. 2. What we found, instead, was a three-column center photo of Annika Sorenstam, a Swedish person we had never heard of, and Annika had not won anything yet; she was merely the first-round leader in the women’s golf tournament down in Hutchinson.

Wimbledon champion Serena Williams, the world’s top woman tennis player, rated a 1-inch photo near the bottom of the page. Serena and her sister, Venus, are American treasures who have put the U.S.A. on front pages all over the world, and Serena has just won a coveted international trophy. Doesn’t this juxtaposition in our newspaper seem odd, to say the least?

Harry and Mary Lou Hughes,

Lawrence