[traumer]

With Williams serving at 5-6, 15-30 in the second set, she faulted on her first serve. On the second, the line judge called a foot fault, making it a double-fault. That made the score 15-40, giving Clijsters a match point. Williams went over and said something to the line judge, who reported it to the chair umpire. That led to the chair umpire awarding a point to Clijsters, ending the match.

Williams already had been given a code violation warning when she broke her racket after losing the first set.

[miele man]

Well, so far, it looks like the media is going to let her get by with this. Am watching Serena’s press conference and the media is trying to make excuses for her.

[nfldgirl]

Well, what a B.S. artist....regardless of the call by the lineswoman, Serena’s behavior was inappropriate; she brought this on herself, and it’s a damn shame that Kim Clijsters had to have the match end the way it did.

[fso301]

Serena seems to have lost focus on what brings home the bacon with all her fashion designer nonsense

[True Grit]

She brought this on herself and got what she deserved. The bottom line is she was out played.

[nfldgirl]

On CBS, they just showed the clip of how Serena responded to the lineswoman when she called the foot fault...Serena took a tennis ball and pointing at the woman, in a very derogatory voice, using the "F" word at least 4 times (they bleeped it but could read her lips), she told the woman she was going to take the ball and shove it in her "F'ing" mouth...THAT amongst some other choice words.

What an ass. Thank goodness she lost. She doesn't deserve to win. Then she gets her face right away in front of the media to try and salvage her rep. Like Mary Carillo just said...S. Williams could have won an Oscar for her performance in the press conference. I hope this ends her tennis career; she doesn't deserve to play in the pros again.

[pnh102]

How long for 0bama to declare that the judge acted stupidly?

[fkabuckeyesrule]

I didn’t even know this was being played tonight I thought it was rained out. When I flipped over to CBS during football timeouts CBS was running commercials so I was surprised when I heard they played. Sounds like Serena went psycho to say the least. I’m sure the race warlords will chime in tomorrow as soon as they get the memo.

[LiteKeeper]

Will the Beloved Leader accuse the tournament director of racism, and then invite them to the White House for a beer?

[devere]

Nothing bizarre. The rules of tennis got applied, and Serena quite properly lost.

I’m still waiting for the rules (constitution) of the USA to be applied, so the NY Slimes can write “In a bizarre ending to his Presidency, Barack Obama was arrested and removed from the White House ...”.

[aposiopetic]

I wish she would conduct herself more like Venus, for whom I always root when the two play against each other.

[GOP Poet]

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[Saije]

Ghettofabulous.