Serena Williams' meltdown at the US Open

Wow, I read about Serena Williams' match-losing meltdown and then managed to catch a rerun of her US Open semi-final match against Kim Clijsters.  The short version is that Williams was down 4-6, 5-6 (15-30) when she faulted her first serve, and then was called for a foot fault on her second serve.  At that point, the game score became 15-40, meaning that if Clijsters won the next point, the match was over.  Williams approached the line judge, shook her racquet, and said something that sounded (to me) vaguely like "shoving this ball down your ****** throat."  Now, in fairness, earlier parts were not entirely audible, and the press reported the quote as "If I could, I would take this ***** ball and . . . " then the part I heard.

I have to say, on replay, it sure did not look like a foot fault to me.  But that's really beside the point.  You can't gesture threatening at the line judge and not expect to be penalized.  The line judge reported feeling apprehensive at the time.  Let's not forget that earlier in the match, Williams got so angry about losing a point that she smashed her racquet on the ground . . . and broke it!

If it was a bad call, Williams should have appealed to the chair umpire to overrule the line judge.

Comments

[eesti poiss]

typical angry black ghetto woman!

[tiff]

Typical racist comment^

[Linda daCosta]

Oh, and I suppose Jimmy Connors legendary and numerous explosive and aggressive outbursts were just the typical angry white suburbs rich man?

[H Bruce]

Very sad seeing Serena loose it... she not only lost the match... her Mother got it right...

[john walsh]

I love serena

[Rex]

Here is the exact quote of what Serena said. http://jooxeg.notlong.com

[sezilla]

It was a very competitive match. It’s a shame it had to end that way, but players cannot be allowed to behave in such a manner toward the officials.

[Isa Lube]

That is terrible, why did she do that? I know it might have been a mistake, but com’on…

[jenn]

Serenna's unsportsmen like conduct should have disqualified her from the U.S. Open Tournament completely. She should have been disqualified for doubles as well.

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