From the (Youtube) Serena purple panty angle, it clearly looks like she stepped on the line. But I guess the LINE judge has the best angle.
A good sport will make sure they aren’t touching the line when they are about to serve with many pros moving 6 inches behind the line and still stepping in court after their racket has touched the ball.
A good sport would welcome constructive criticism when they violate the rules, aren’t cognizant of it, and are called by an official.
A good sport would have been extremely embarrassed for having advanced to the US Open, then to the semifinals, and then still so mentally and physically incompetent as to double fault leading to a match point.
A good sport, after being frustrated, would shift their thinking into a fashion that they contained their frustrations internally, and would never allow themselves to express their frustrations physically. Even if they redirected it into their sports action, their thinking would have corrupted their play of the game and scarred their personal integrity.
A good sport, even if they had so egregiously errored by crushing and unrelentingly smashing their graphite tennis racket until it burst into a million pieces directly in front of the judge, would not later menacingly strut towards the same judge, violently shake their racket at the judge after their line fault and physically attempt to intimidate the judges call.
It’s obvious that had Serena not been called, and happened to have won the match, she would have been called and congratulated by Obama. Did Obama call the white player and congratulate her or this just another Obama racist thing?
Serena wasn’t the better player. She should’ve been thrown out of the league years before this. She disgraces the game and anybody who plays on a court with her.