serena williams – Rob's blog https://www.topendsports.com/rob from Topend Sports Thu, 06 Jun 2024 00:25:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.6 39014565 Bad Sport Serena https://www.topendsports.com/rob/sport/tennis/bad-sport-serena/ https://www.topendsports.com/rob/sport/tennis/bad-sport-serena/#comments Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:26:44 +0000 http://topendsports.com/rob/?p=189 In the U.S. Open Tennis Tournament, defending champion Serena Williams was fined $10,000 for her tirade directed at a line judge. She said: ‘If I could, I would … shove [this ball] down your throat’. There were a few expletives deleted from that quote.

Serena Williams

Can you get a bigger contrast between the champion of men’s tennis, Roger Federer and her? Thankfully such bad sportsmanship has not gone unnoticed, with the big fine and her losing the final match point based on that outburst.

Williams was going to lose the semifinal to Kim Clijsters anyway, and the fine is only a smidgeon of what she earned playing the tournament. Let’s hope she gets punished in more ways, but somehow I think she will not be repentant.

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