Check out Serena Williams at a press conference following her loss to Belgium’s Kim Clijsters in the U.S. Open on Saturday.
After Clijsters won the first set, Williams slammed her racket to the court twice, earning a warning for racket abuse. A lineswoman then called Williams for a foot fault on her second serve, which Williams then reportedly approached her and told her that “you don’t know me,” and that she would “shove this ball down your throat”. Having already picked up her first code violation, she had no points left to give.
Tournament referee Brian Earley explained the penalty procedure and why the match ended without Clijsters being declared the winner:
Williams was called for a foot fault on her second serve, making the score 15-40. She then yelled something at the line umpire, who reported it to the chair umpire. Based on the report, Miss Williams was assessed a code violation, point penalty, for unsportsmanlike conduct. It just happened that point penalty was match point.
Williams explained to reporters following the match: “I used to have a real temper — and I’ve gotten a lot better. I know you don’t believe me, I used to be worse.“
I WAS VERY ASHAMED…..
She said ‘fucking’ 4 times!!!
Very sorry display of sportsmanship!!!!
Someone was on their cycle and pms-ing apparently.
I THINK THAT WE ALL HAVE LOSE OUR TEMPER SOMETIMES BUT SERENA HANDLED IT THE WRONG WAY…SHE LET THE GAME GET TO HER……BUT I THINK THAT ALL OF THIS COVERAGE ON HER IS OVERSHADOWING THE WINNER (CLIJSTER)…AND SHE WAS LOSING IN THE MATCH ANYWAY (SERENA)
Her reaction remind me of how I can get sometimes but in this situation, I believe I would’ve handled it differently…. Oh well, you live and you learn
MAYBE SHE WAS JUST WAS TRYING TO ESCAPE THE FACT THAT SHE WS GONNA LOSE…SO SHE THREW A FIT—>JUST A THOUGHT…
I too was deeply ashamed. Poor display all the way around.
Serena is a trip! I do think the whole fiasco included hints of racism but Serena really shouldn’t have lost her temper and clowned like that.
Racket abuse? That’s different.
I agree, I was ashamed of her reactions as well.
They didn’t even prove if Serena really had a foot fault.
Serena has always had a temper……so you live, and you learn.
You have to go Compton on them tennis hoes sometimes.
Black Women
Serena Williams, Whitney Houston…
People aren’t always going to be nice. Serena is very competitve and she works very hard to stay on top. She just let the Compton get out of her that’s all. I know I’m a hot mess when the country jumps out of me
They showed that the lady made a bad call. That had to be frustrating. Then she lied and said she said she was goin to kill her.
The “foot fault” call was a bad call..but the bottom line is that she was totally unprofessional.
aawww she works very hard… so we should all give her a breake cause i’m sure we all at one point lost out temper but the cameras wasn’t there to see it lol…. she is entitled to get mad once in a blue
I love Serena and obviously she let her emotions take over and get the best of her. Like she said she is an intense player and sometimes when you give something your all and is let down then you react without thinking. Come on you all she’s human, get over it!
She definitely need anger management, but to be honest from a winner like her I wouldn’t have expected anything different. She was already losing and for the line judge to take any chance she had left away I knew she was going to go off. She need to do better though that was no excuse to have poor sportsmanship like that. I just read she got fined 10k.
I felt Serena was justified in the way she acted.
She is a player who has come back and won a match from being on the brink of losing like she was yesterday. Then that stupid idiot called a foot fault when it was very questionable.
Also, people like Andy Murray act much worse in lesser situations and people don’t say nothing about them.
lol! the lines woman looked sooo scared.
like she said, serena is an intense player. she was playing soooo bad yesterday. i guess she got frustrated…doesnt make it right tho.
I support Serena. She is an awesome athlete. To my recollection this is the only time she has been ‘unsportsmanlike’.
If this keeps happening, then, something needs to be addressed, but all the people that are ‘ashamed’ should try living like a human every once in while and get angry. Then turn around and get ashamed at yourself.
thats what her ass gets…and eww at the attitude…stick on a happy face and move on girl…
There was no foot fault and what kind of judge calls a foot fault in a huge match like that? This kind of crap has been happening to Sarina for years. This is the us open and the sisters are the only americans left! And people had the nerve to boo her in NEW YORK. Dont be surprised if they dont come back after all they have to deal with from the media. At the end of the day, you’re still just a n$##.
Common must have made her highly upset….
Serena is HUMAN and yes, she is still the QUEEN on the tennis court!!! At least she isn’t an embarrassment to the Black race like many of these other celebs/athletes!! And, yes, you know who they are. GET OVER IT!! Serena gets a free pass just for breathing!!
KANYE WACK SUCKS FOR JUMPING ON THE VH1 STAGE AND DISSING TAYLOR SWIFT!!! THE BIGGEST A$$$$$$ EVER!! EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY!!
Ok…apparently the people commenting haven’t seen the whole video. She was cursing that chick out! She dropped that F bomb at least 4 times and it was live so they couldn’t bleep it out! The commenter had to apologize on her behalf! TMZ has the whole video. Then she gets up there and acts like she had no idea that she had done anything wrong! I like Serena too, and everybody has a bad day, but she had a nasty lil attitude and it was completely uncalled for! She deserved to lose.
@ 19: I don’t where you been, you must not watch Serena play much, but she is know for her ‘unsportsmanlike’ behavior. She has thrown her racquet down before after losing a match, cursed at a ref, walked off the court without shaking her opponets hand. She can be really nasty sometimes. She is a sore loser and her attitude needs to be checked.
You know this is really getting old. For far too long people have been overlooking Serina’s little fits. I am tired of her little bursts and I am tired of her being a poor sportsman. She never truly gives her opponents props for winning. She instead says she did not play her game. While that is true I mean come on. You win some you loose some. Just give your opponents their due respect and shut the f up.
That wasn’t a foot fault- it was proven so! As an athlete myself(not professional tho, obviously) i know the intensity of a tight game like this and when that linesman called the foot fault, I KNEW Serena was about to pop off!! she let the ghetto OUT! BUT as a respected and leading tennis lady(and black one @ that), she should’ve controlled her anger and taken it up with the umpire instead of attacking the linesman.
Ok now on to the randomness!
umm did anyone else witness the FOOLISHNESS that is kanye west just a few moment ago on the VMA’S? He keeps giving me a reason to dislike him more and more. Whether it was for publicity or not, direscpecting Taylor Swift right in her face was OUT OF LINE! ughhh i hate people like him!
@24, Serena shook Kim’s hand like 3 times.
@GG Boo: It is not a black or white thing. She slammed her raquet down out of frustration. That is called a ‘foot fault’. She was properly fault for it and she should have kept her mouth shut then. But she let her anger get the best of her and she layed that chick out for no reason! She knew she was gonna lose and she knew the penalty for using profanity on the court! She should have lost for bad ‘sportsmanship’. Maybe she will learn next time to not let her anger get the best of her. She should know by now she can’t win them all. She needs to get over herself!
@ 27: I was talking about another match. I can’t remember who she played, it was several years ago, she lost the match and just walked off the court and left the girl standing there! Youtube it. I watch every Serena match, so I know what I am talking about! She has very bad ‘sportsmanship’ sometimes.
Ya that call was faulty she did her Macenroe sp?, she got real hood on her funny save for white people expected it.
Ashamed of f*cking what??? GTF outta here with that BS lol. Did she make all black people look bad at that moment, is that why you’re ashamed lol?
She was losing and lost her temper, it happens. Next…
Either way theyre madd racist!
Let me just say this, some of them male white tennis players have done far WORSE than what Serena did and gotten away with it. Serena could have handled it better, but to call a foot fault at such a critical point (when there wasn’t a foot fault) is not right. I hate how all these white sports commentators trying to trash him now. Serena, we all make mistakes and in the moment of passion do things we regret. I don’t condone her actions, but I UNDERSTAND. When you are passionate about something as she is with tennis, you can lose your cool. I will support Venus and Serena no matter what, cause the white media is trying their damnest to tare her down after this.
But tiger woods did the same thing like last week? Is this is a trend?
common should be scared serena might shove her own balls down his throat one day
I saw the video at TMZ and No. 24 is right! She cursed at the Judge and apparently threatened her and when the Judge reported it she threw her raquet down. She knew she was gonna lose and when the Judge faulted her she went off. She did shake her opponets hand though. But this is not Serena’s first temper tantrum on the court !She is a very sore loser! Like someone said earlier, when she does lose she alwasy says how she wasn’t playing her best or the Judge made a bad call. She never just congratulates her opponent and except the fact that she lost fair and square! She needs to accept the fact that you cannot win them all and just move on! Don’t embarass yourself by throwing a tantrum! She should have lost!
SERENA I UNDERSTAND COMPLETELY! SOMETIMES PEOPLE MAKE YOU JUST WANT TO JUST GO BALLISTIC!…….BUT YOU HAVE TO CONTROL YOUR EMOTIONS A LITTLE BETTER BOO LOL! DAMN IS COMMON NOT HITTING THAT THING CORRECTLY?? WTF?
AND KANYE KANYE KANYE…LMAO! I LOVE YOU BUT COME ON NOW BRUH THAT WAS FOUL! I FELT BAD FOR THE LITTLE WHITE GIRL LOL..AND BEYONCE WAS LOOKING LIKE WTF? KANYE NO!
AND I’M SORRY BUT BEYONCE LOOKED REALLY STANK WITH ALL THAT HOOCHIE COOCHIE POPPING LOL!
I saw the video too, adn honestly it was funny as hell! She went off on that Judge! The judge did make a bad call, and I would have been upset too, but you can’t curse her out and threaten to kill her! Lol! Then when the judge snitched, Serena tried to deny it and was like “Did I scare you, I’m sorry, but I know people have said a lot worse to you!” It was funny as hell ! Serena is my girl, but you know that lil Asian women scare easily! You can’t be going off on them like that! I mean put yourself in the Judges shoes, if you saw Serena’s big burly looking ass coming at you, and threatens to kill you, wouldn’t you tell too! Watch the vid before you comment people!
@37 kanye picked the wrong white girl because everyone loves taylor swift shit even i love taylor swift he thought he could say what he want because it wasnt pink or kathy perry but kanye got booed all the way home u know amber is mad
Damn Right …… I’m on Serena’s side. All that hard work and training just to have a B.S call on you. Of course any human being would flip sooner or later.
In this situation ….. Nobody was right. The umpire wasn’t right for the B.S call, Serena wasn’t right for not curbing her language, and the Chair Umpire wasn’t right for giving a point penalty when this could have been resolved afterward with a fine or something.
I couldn’t believe it, but it was funny to see her go off like she did. Now if they decide to take this to the furthest level (taking away the money she’s won, banning her from future events in 2010) I am gonna be a little upset ’cause I don’t think it warrants all that.
I think it is funny how she does not remember what she said and she started smirking after they aske her did that lady feel threatened….lmao…..Lets not forget that Serena is from Compton so she has got a lil hood in her somewhere and it was bound to come out at some point in time.
@ DIVA1UP
YEP HE DONE MESSED UP NOW! AND THEY WERE BOOING THAT FOOL KANYE EVERY TIME HIS NAME WAS MENTIONED! LMAO!
BUT YOU KNOW WHAT…I GIVE BEYONCE HER PROPS FOR WHAT SHE DID WHEN SHE WON HER AWARD. THAT WAS A VERY CLASSY THING TO DO.
Why the heck did Jay-z come so much later than Beyonce? Are they not married? Do they even live together? Wtf?
Roid rage!
@the kanye thing somebody really needs to teach him a lesson that was fucked up if I was her I would have went on him… All punks kno that they can only mess wit certain ppl
………damn shame …. she was so angry…. the other girl was so calm
……. she said she was gonna sholve that fuckin ball
,,,,,,, down her fuckin throat…..lol serena great fuck up lol
…… kanye is a complete ass hole
Yall are soooo late on this…i was wondering when you were gonna post it…
Serena is a competitor and there was NO foot fault. The A$$hole Open should have had instant replay long ago. Sports is not about tea and crumpets. The lind judge wore coke bottle glasses, so they shouldn’t have put her in for such an important match.
I will not let the white folks tell me how bad Serena is, when McEnroe and Connors made a living at cussing everybody out and they all thought it was cute. I am not ashamed of Serena. If anything with all the yapping today from the tennis commentators she knows who her friends are and it’s not them. I bet their ratings went down today, I deliberately watched football all GD day. The William sisters bring viewers and sponsors.
Besides did this asian woman even understand english. I live in Cali and sometimes when I’m talking to one of them they know one sentence of good english and then they just smile, and I know they don’t understand a dayummm thing I said.
there is no excuse. serena should know good sportsmanship by now.
serena is a dude dressed in drag. she really wouldve killed that lil asian woman. no man should ever speak to a woman in that fashion and it is disrespectful.
that beast needs to be tasered or put down. my goodness. serena looked str8 up like the hulk except she stays the a monster beast 24/7
agree with #45 … that looked like a straight up steroid induced over-reaction … i mean i love serena’s body on the court, but in a dress she looks very man-ish … bottom line, she played a f#cked up game and clijsters played a great game and serena couldnt handle it … she is indeed a very sore loser, even when she loses to venus she cant even fake like she’s happy for venus … she should have taken the high road during the press conference and apologized to clijsters for stealing her shine
Kanye was DEAD WRONG! And like #39 said, he picked the WRONG white girl cause EVERYBODY loves Taylor. That was just sooo uncalled for! Poor thing, didn’t know what to do. I felt so bad for her….hello kanye wake up and look around @ where you are! This is MTV jackass! Of course yo black ass is gone get boo’d the rest of the night and rightly so…. Uuugh just pure coonery!
WOOOOWWW..
YOU KNOW WHAT SERENA?? NO ONE’S PERFECT, AND FRUSTRATION GETS TO PEOPLE.. EVERYONE SNAPS AT LEAST ONCE AND TODAY YOU HAD YOUR DAY.. IT’S ALRIGHT WITH ME, DO YA THANG GIRL!!
REALeyes.
U WIN SOME U LOOSE SOME IT HAPPENS EMOTIONS WILL GET THE BEST OF U .
YES KANYE WEST IS ARROGANT AN ASSHOLE HE NEEDS TO BE BAN FROM MTV EVERYTIME ,HE ACTS A FOOL !HOW LIL OF HIM IF THE ACTUAL ARTIST ISNT UPSET ABOUT LOOSING AN AWARD WHY N THE HELLR U BUT THEN HE TAKE IT UPON HIS SELF TO BE LIL SOMEONE SIT YO GAY ASS DOWNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN HE NEEDS TO PUT IN HIS PLACE HOWEVA KARMA A BITCH
@28 SHEMADE: You keep telling yourself it’s not a race thing. When you have people rooting against you in your own country and it’s the host country for the Open you already know what’s up. If you don’t think tennis isn’t a sport with ties to racism you need to go back and read. Black folks weren’t even allowed on the courts, golf courses and the stupid clubs that house certain sports. And again, there are plenty of other tennis stars that have gotten OC. It’s not to say what she did was right, butreference comment #50. They are right.
I don’t mean they are right about the comment about the Asian woman, but the other part about the Williams sisters’ contribution to the game. Same as Tiger. They bring money but you can always hear the little digs from the media and the commentators.
@ BackingBarack, You are really a silly trick. We knew it from the first post. The other posts were just redundant. Look it up.