If you missed it, Serena Williams lost her Semi-Final U.S. Open match to Kim Clijsters yesterday thanks to a very poorly-timed emotional outburst. Down 5-6 in the second set (and having lost the first set), Williams committed a foot fault on her serve to fall behind 15-40. Instead of just bearing down and trying to get back into the game, she took that opportunity to walk over to the line judge, shake her racquet at her, and scream, "If I could, I would take this f-ing ball and shove it down your f-ing throat!" (The video replay, by the way, showed that she had, indeed, stepped on the line during her serve.)
When the line judge scurried over to the chair umpire to complain, a conference ensued, and eventually Williams was penalized a single point for unsportsmanlike behaviour... handing the match to Clijsters in the process!
I wish something like that had happened to John McEnroe, back in the day, but he was likely a bit more careful about the timing of his tantrums.
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That is terrible, why did she do that? I know it might have been a mistake, but com’on…
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