#15 "Not only must they grin and bare incompetent line calls but hostile crowds as well" #22 "American's blatantly cheer for tennis players from other countries rather than cheer for Serena and Venus." That idea must come from her match with Kim Clijsters where she was booed. Some of the crowd was booing because they turned up to a previous game to see Serena play her sister Venus and Serena unexpectedly pulled out of the match 4 minutes before it started. Those booing fans turned up to see Serena play Venus. If they were trying to boo black players out of tennis, they wouldnt show up to watch two black women play and they wouldnt have been so disappointed that they didnt play.

1. I disagree about it being only about the foot fault call because she threw her racket earlier in the game. 2. I just listened to some youtube videos of her matches and I only heard cheering for Serena not booing.

So she is black - so what. (Pull your head in #16!! It's people like you who live in the past keeping this sort of environment alive). So the call was or was not correct - so what. So she had an outburst - so what. Understandable when the pressure is on. Even the great Federer has let loose now and again - especially in his early career. The whole point of this is the degree, content and delivery of her rage to the lineswoman. She swore at her, threatened her, stood over her while she sat in her chair to initimidate her. Now you take her place in that chair...different story now isn't it. Stick to the facts of why she was fined, not your emotion.

Alfred Rosenberg do you even watch Tennis? Obviously not or you wouldn't talk so much tripe! American's blatantly cheer for tennis players from other countries rather than cheer for Serena and Venus. The racism that has been directed at these 2 amazing athletes is well documented throughout there careers and is commented on by the commentators in almost every match they play. EVERY game they get shockingly bad decisions by lines people and umpires (most memorable when Jennifer Capriati the all American White Girl had 3 balls go miles over the line but was given the points to ensure she was gift wrapped the match) the Williams sisters ALMOST never complain and both sisters are more gracious in defeat than ANY other female player. You can't compare tennis to other sports as tennis is just in a different class it is a sport dominated by the upper class and here came along 2 black girls with from "the streets" and they take the tennis world by storm and the tennis association could do nothing but stand back and watch and they are still spewing!

Tudamax 15. What a load of racial paranoia garbage. Wasn't the game played in the Arthur Ashe stadium....named after one of the most universally admired tennis champions of all time. I like Serena Williams, but she made a real ass of herself that day and deserved everything she got.

#16 If the lineswoman had been wide awake and not called the foot fault in the first place, Serena wouldn't have had to do anything. She wouldn't have gotten angry like she did and would have lost the match in any case. Kim was playing the better tennis.

Tudamax #15 - you pulled the race card and got everything backwards as is usual when that card is pulled.

You say white people think tennis should be dominated by English gentry. Times have changed. I doubt if white people care about the William's success in tennis. Blacks are supposed to dominate in sport in 2009 after all - look at how American football, Rugby, Rugby League, Basketball, Baseball and Soccer teams are all dominated by non-whites in majority white countries. If it was the other way around non-whites would be demanding the teams be more proportionate.

Just like the famous Springbok tour when everybody cared about the Sth Africa rugby team being all white when nobody cared that the Sth Africa soccer team was all black.

Maybe Serena couldnt handle that the pretty white blonde was winning and that's why she spat the dummy. Just like Kanye West jumping all over Taylor Swift because he thought a black person should have got the award for her rubbish song - not the first times he's done it either.

Im starting to see a pattern here - when white people are racist its white racism. When non-white people are racist its also white racism. When non-white people fail its white racism. When non-white people get caught out its white racism. When non-white people dont get their way its white racism.

When I studied psychology they called that "Freudian projection bias"

tudamax

Bit of a bee in the bonnet

$100000 fine for being right, what the fudge is going on. the same open that she was screwed over before good old land of the free at it again.

Serena Williams would not be fined, if she had requested a replay of the relevant video at a US Open.