I wonder why this didn't make the news as much as that Olympics debacle where it was eventually determed the gold medal would go to the American anyway.
The sad thing is that Serena's father is now claiming that the bad call was the result of racism.
I've seen far, far worse calls than those during the Serena/Jennifer game - the Vilander/McEnroe era was full of games with questionable calls.
Instant replay in tennis may be one of the worst ideas I've heard in a while. We'd have all-day matches and the whining some of these players already do would only increase if they could b*tch about every single call.
Why not implement do-overs and Mulligans in tennis while we're at it?
Who cares, really? Personally, I'd far rather watch amateur sports than professional sports any day. I'm afraid I just can't get all that excited about millionaires batting a ball back and forth.
In Serena's even the announces were confused about who made the final line call. They wer castigating the lines-person until a 2nd or 3rd replay showed the lines-person called Serena's shot in but was overruled by the umpire. If the referee had been called to question the umpire and the lines-person there was a reasonable chance that the referee would have ruled the lines-person's call was correct. Serena never demanded, as was her right, that the referee be called by the umpire.
Venus of course was unquestionably victimized by the inability of the umpire to call the score correctly. She also failed to request the referee to review the scoring.
Always know the rules of the game you are playing.
Computer tracking of the ball is definitely possible, thanks to the fact that with the definite sizing of the court the ability of computers to "watch" ball movement closely.