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Serena Williams is fined $10,500 for tirade (Further investigation of the incident coming)
Los Angeles Times ^
| 9/13/2009
| Diane Pucin
Posted on 09/13/2009 4:45:56 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: drubyfive
I’ll ask you like I asked all the others: How do know it wasn’t a foot fault? Were you sitting on the baseline watching Williams’ feet?
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posted on
09/13/2009 8:56:49 PM PDT
by
raybbr
(It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
To: drubyfive
Nope, Montag has it right. Really bad officiating. As a fan, I wanted to see what was going to happen in the rest of the match. Instead, a poorly trained or supervised line judge decided the match.No. It was her second serve having missed her first serve and she couldn't win second serves against her opponent. Most likely, she would have lost the point. She denied herself the opportunity to play against a 15-40 lead by her tantrum.
To: montag813
How do you know it wasn’t a foot fault? Were you sitting on the baseline watching Williams’ feet?
123
posted on
09/13/2009 8:58:07 PM PDT
by
raybbr
(It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
To: Eaker
Serena acting like a horses ass is relevant and should be the focus of the thread. She is a freak and I think it was possibly even 'Roid Rage.
I still think that little whiny witch who tattle taled to the ump was pathetic.
To: raybbr
How do you know it wasnt a foot fault? Were you sitting on the baseline watching Williams feet? Yes. I shook Obama's hand and now have the power of omnipotence.
To: raybbr
How do you know it wasnt a foot fault? Were you sitting on the baseline watching Williams feet? Yes. I shook Obama's hand and now have the power of omnipotence.
To: montag813
I still think that little whiny witch who tattle taled to the ump was pathetic. She was called by the ump.
To: montag813
The Rules of Tennis
The Singles Game
8. Foot Fault The Server shall throughout the delivery of the Service: a. Not change his position by walking or running. The Server shall not by slight movement of the feet which do not materially affect the location originally taken up by him, be deemed "to change his position by walking or running.
b. Not touch, with either foot, any area other than that behind the base-line within the imaginary extensions of the centre-mark and side-lines.
![Serena Foot Fault](http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/8397/serenafootfault01.png)
Source:
Tennis Online
That IS a foot ON THE LINE, no?
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posted on
09/13/2009 9:27:39 PM PDT
by
papasmurf
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To: papasmurf
THAT'S the photo you use as evidence?
![](http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/8397/serenafootfault01.png)
about as useful as this...
![](http://www.martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/jfkzap.jpg)
for determining where the shooter was
Rotate clockwise about 45 degrees and get back to me
To: sofaman
She did not say that she would kill her. Thats incorrect. Try living with a tennis ball shoved down your throat.
This was threatening and intimidation. In my State that is a class 1 misdemeanor. I cannot believe that it is not a violation of law in New York?
To: Recovering Ex-hippie
I get the same vibe from Michelle ostammer as I get from Serena and OJ - mouthy, aggressive, threatening, whining, arrogant racists.
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posted on
09/14/2009 9:17:24 AM PDT
by
bustinchops
(Teddy ("The Hiccup") Kennedy - the original water-boarder)
To: Glenn
Yeah.......because she knew she’d stepped in it.......again. Just look at her aggressive, malevolent expression and posture while confronting the line judge. Serena Williams should be suspended for a year.
132
posted on
09/14/2009 9:21:18 AM PDT
by
bustinchops
(Teddy ("The Hiccup") Kennedy - the original water-boarder)
To: HoosierHawk
Like father, like daughter. The white world owes them a living and any and all bad behavior they exhibit is whitey’s fault and should be excused. If it isn’t, it’s okay to threaten and cry racism.
I’m sick to death of these tacky, obnoxious racist hustlers with their big mouths, obscenities and threats.
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posted on
09/14/2009 9:28:26 AM PDT
by
bustinchops
(Teddy ("The Hiccup") Kennedy - the original water-boarder)
To: wendy1946
You’re either blind, crazy or a pro-black racist.
134
posted on
09/14/2009 9:32:14 AM PDT
by
bustinchops
(Teddy ("The Hiccup") Kennedy - the original water-boarder)
To: mlizzy
Good gawd, she looks like a caricature. Blech!
135
posted on
09/14/2009 9:35:48 AM PDT
by
bustinchops
(Teddy ("The Hiccup") Kennedy - the original water-boarder)
To: HoosierHawk
So, when a black person behaves as a foulmouthed, obnoxious, threatening hood rat, we shouldn’t verbalize that observation because to do so empowers the left to call us racists? Is the an accurate summary of your position?
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posted on
09/14/2009 9:41:10 AM PDT
by
bustinchops
(Teddy ("The Hiccup") Kennedy - the original water-boarder)
To: montag813
The foot was over the line. The call was good. Or don’t the rules apply to all? Do they only apply when it benefits a black player?
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posted on
09/14/2009 9:43:18 AM PDT
by
bustinchops
(Teddy ("The Hiccup") Kennedy - the original water-boarder)
To: headstamp 2
That’s what I think. Serena’s got a bad case of ‘rhoid rage. They should test her.
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posted on
09/14/2009 9:45:37 AM PDT
by
bustinchops
(Teddy ("The Hiccup") Kennedy - the original water-boarder)
To: sofaman
Oh, so it’s okay to curse and threaten a game official as long as you don’t really intend to them harm? As long as you’re just blowing off steam, you can say anything you want? Take an aggressive posture, curse like there’s no tomorrow and threaten to stuff a ball down someone’s throat? That’s all fine as long as you don’t have the actual capacity to carry out the threat without being immediately stopped by referees and other bystanders?
That’s a great set of sportsmanship values you have there./sar
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posted on
09/14/2009 9:54:37 AM PDT
by
bustinchops
(Teddy ("The Hiccup") Kennedy - the original water-boarder)
To: bustinchops
The foot was over the line. show me a definitive photo. Others have not given good angles. The video was inconclusive, and the announcers didn't like it.
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