Many people have probably heard of Serena Williams and her sister Venus Williams, the famous tennis players. Well Saturday night at 10:52 pm Serena was playing in the US Open semifinals, when she was called for a foot fault. Which made it match point and apparently Williams had cursed at the line judge for the call. The line judge then went over to umpire and reported Williams for verbal abuse. That then gave the opponet, Kim Clijsters, a penalty point and the match point therefor ending the game. She will play Caroline Wozniacki for the championship.
After Williams had lost the first match she had throw her racket down twice and then received a warning. Then when she yelled at the line judge for the foot fault call she was given a penalty. When they looked at the tape of the game it looked like Serena said, "I swear to God [bleep], I'm taking this ball and I'm shoving it down your [bleep] throat." Serena later said that she didn't say that and that she didn't really remember what she said because she was in the moment, but that she had foot faulted. She also stated that she wasn't angry with the line judge because she was only doing her job. Kim Clijsters said that she was sad that such a good game had to end so badly. Clijstersis the only person to have defeted both the Williams sisters in the same tournament twice. Five others have done it, but only once.
Williams mother said that she didn't see the foot fault, but she was sitting on the other side of the stadium, and that Serena should have just stayed calm. I totally agree if she had just stayed calm everything would have been fine and she would have had a chance to win it, but like most people she overreacted and now look what happened. I do feel bad for her though she probably just got caught up in the game and wanted it so bad that she wasn't thinking.
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