US Open Serena Foot Fault. Serena Williams plays professional tennis but she behaves unprofessionally. She is a champion but she acts like a big loser. The line judge was just doing her job, Williams has no right to verbally abuse her. Williams has robbed Kim Clijsters of a big win. The press is saying she lost this match because of controversy, bull, she lost the match because she was down a set and down two match points, Kim Clijsters WON the match and I feel bad that she didn’t get to have the “I did it” feeling because of how the match ended but that is all on Serena. Booo to Serena Williams.
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wow us open should be ashamed of itself with having these poor line judges out there! Futher more now the rules need to add foot fault challenge to the player's challenging system because during this us open there have been way too may many foot fault calls and the players should be allowed to ask for a new line judge if too many bad calls are being made! Serena is the new John McEnroe so don't hate she's a very intense player and wants to win,so this is good for women's game some emotion, fire that's what women tennis needs.Big Up's to the fired up tennis player's out there!
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What are you talking about. What job. There was no foot fault. These line judges have been calling points right on the line throughout the tournament and then that one comes out with a ridiculous "foot fault" on a match point. The whole thing seems like a really bad joke not least on the part of that phlegmatic idiot of a line judge. Boo to you and your biased blog. Please watch carefully. I wonder if you even knew what a foot fault was before this shambles took over TV?
Obviously you have never been an athlete and played at any competitive level.
Serena acted out in the heat of the moment, and was more than justified, as the pictures have showed.
Don't post if you don't have the background to back up your mouth!!!
What a load of crap. Serena is a fine professional like any other player on the tour. She is known for being gracious. It was an atrocious call and should NEVER have been made at that point in such a huge match. If you don't understand that then you don't know tennis. Many players say much worse and rant much longer without a point penalty.
i think you have hit the nail on the head. no athlete, whether professional or amateur, should EVER act in such a manner as serena did yesterday, no matter how "fired up, emotional, or passionate" she was feeling "in the heat of the moment". bad calls are made all the time, and no referee, umpire, or linesman signs up to be verbally abused or physically threatened. they are human, just like every athlete who makes mistakes. i'm not even sure that call was wrong!! i don't think anyone can honestly judge it from the angles it has been shown. without a camera on that line, no one can really say for sure.
I AM AN ATHLETE, and i know exactly what it feels like to be out there, playing your ass off and getting a bad call against you. it happens. it doesn't give ANYONE the right to demean another human being in that way. the beauty of the game, whichever it may be, soccer, tennis, baseball, football, etc, is that it SHOULD teach us to be better people, no matter how we feel. sports is the outlet, the sanctuary, the challenge, the heartache, and the glory that we thrive on. part of that heartache is that there is always a winner, and a loser. yesterday, serena was the big time loser. not only in the thrashing she received from clijsters (and would most surely have succumb to) but in character as well. clijsters on the other hand, handled herself with class. a true "champion" as serena is so dubbed, would have accepted the call, won the next point to overcome losing the match, and dug herself out of the 1 set, 1 game deficit clijsters had so assertively put her in.
what serena did was absolutely shameful and i am appalled at her bahviour during and after the incident upon which a formal and public apology SHOULD have been given. this gives young budding athletes who look up to her, as well as other adults also, the impression that it was okay to act in such a manner (as seen in above comments). I am horrifed that so many would view this behaviour as not only acceptable, but good for the sport! something like this is never good for SPORT... unless of course like most of america, you get up from your seat and cheer 2 guys fight it out on a hockey rink, or a pitcher intentially throw at a batter... that is not sport anymore, but entertainment, and not the true nature of the game, whatever yours may be. for those who think it is, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
you should be ashamed calling yourself an athlete, when you obviously know nothing about the big moments. yes her actions at that part of the match were unfortunate you must remember that she too is just as human as the line judge. just as the line judge didn't sign up to be abused, she did not accept entrance in the tournament to be cheated. Pay attention to the match. How is it that a line judge can not call not one of the balls clijsters hit close to the line but calls a foot fault at that point in the match. A foot fault on Serena who is pretty much up against a wall. Someone whose serve is known to get them out of trouble.
Further more I have seen almost every single champ argue with match officials over bad calls.
Why is it that the athlete is never given the benefit of the doubt and the officials not put under scrutiny. As far as I know the players are under pressure not the officials and they should be held to higher standards especially at such large occasions.
Dont get me wrong Serena should not have exploded but if you are going to criticize her the line judge must be criticized as well.
I agree 100% with Mary Carillo - Serena should have been immediately suspended ... "if not what does it say about our sport"! Serena's boorish behaviour on the court was totally unprofessional and unsportsmanlike. This athlete has no business being on a tennis court until she gets control of her temper. I also do not believe that she should be allowed back on the court until she makes a sincere apology to the official, to the USTA, and to the fans. Here "performance" at the press conferences only added to her disgrace ... she just does not get it! Anyone who disagrees is not a true tennis fan. In no other professional sport would her foul language attack on an official be tolerated ... and at the Olympics she would have been immediately dismissed.
The officials all did there jobs professionally as to the rule book. And no one has yet to show positive, clear photographic proof that she did not foot fault. Kudos to the judge who had the courage to do her job in a crutial part of the match!
One thing further, again as Mary Carillo said the $10,000 fine from the ITF is a joke! Oh, yes we must not forget there is also the $500 fine for racquet abuse. Get real!!!
Mary Carillo is a tennis nobody whose highest ranking was #33! She never won a single individual grand slam and only one doubles, so how can she speak with anything but jealousy about Serena? What is needed to keep tennis honest is to use Chase Review to decide foot faults just as they do with line calls. The solution is easy if USTA wants to be fair. Having an anonymous judge destroy a defending US Open champion and Grand Slam winner is absurd!Calling seven foot faults on Venus and a match point foot fault on Serena is biased officiating and impugns the reputation of USTA. Venus and Serena have been the face of US Tennis since Sampras and Agassi retired!.
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Knowing several tennis officials, I have to say that the first commenter doesn't have a clue what they're talking about. Firstly, the officials at the Open are some of the highest ranked officials certified by the ITF in the *world*. The officials working the high ranking players are the best of the best at the Open. They wouldn't be on the court at all if their judgement wasn't trusted implicitly. With a foot fault call at this level of play, you can bet that it was a pretty obvious one to the baseline judge, otherwise she would have let it play. If you watch the video, you can see when it happens as Serena turns her foot right before the serve.
You will see rulings get overturned due to Hawkeye, but rarely are they more than barely touching a line, and usually they're on balls that were going insanely fast.
All the officials I know could not believe that Serena didn't get ejected from the tournament completely. After jumping all over an official, she then had to go out on court to play doubles. Every one of those officials was probably nervous as hell about what she might do, and it would have been difficult to focus completely on their job, and not what would happen if they called something that she disliked.
Personally, I'm proud of the lineswoman, for having the cojones to stand up to Serena and do her job properly, instead of paying attention to the moment and letting it slide.