Click here or on the image to see the video of the incident which caused her to lose a point and match since the score was 4-6, 5-6 at 15-40.
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Serena ousted
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Poor sportsmanship.
The officials were wrong. It was a bad call for the officiating crew.
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Perhaps not a great call, but she really lost her cool.
Lost in this mess was the fact that Cljisters was playing great. She had great depth on her groundstrokes and was clearly able to out hit Williams. The outcome unfortunately is not decided by a ball being hit back and forth, but don’t let any apologists confuse the matter: Williams was losing and facing defeat.
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The foot fault was a bad call. But bad calls happen in sports because humans make mistakes. The bad call does not excuse Serena’s horrible conduct afterward. Serena has always been an egomaniac, though, so her conduct didn’t surprise me: it just reinforced my opinion of her.
Serena may have lost the match anyway, may have not. The bottom line however, that I think that the last two points of such a match should not be decided based on a very suspicious alleged “foot fault” call and the resulting argument, linked to an earlier “racket abuse” (which I think is ridiculous on its own merits).
I’m not so sure it was a bad call. Too often foot faults are not called. They should do it more often and the players may change their habits.
Tennis players are essentialy bad-mannered. It is because they train alone and have no real friends until they retire. I would never choose tennis a professional sport for my child.
Serena foot-faulted earlier, though this call was more marginal than the earlier one.
Serena should have appealed the call rather than berating the line-judge.
She didn’t succeed in appealing the call, and was rightly penalised for berating the line-judge.
So she rightly went out. I expect she will live.