Serena Williams’ outburst caught on video
Serena Williams lost it yesterday while playing against Kim Clijsters on the 2009 US Open tennis semi-finals.
The tennis star picked up a point penalty for what many are saying is a bad call. A supposed foot-fault, which caused her to lose the game – and her cool. After the penalty, Serena screamed at the line judge responsible for the call. The line judge then went running and squealing over to the umpire to report Serena, who in turn passed the info on to the tournament referee, who disqualified her.
Serena says she has no regrets, even if it cost her the game. “I’ve never been foot faulted [all year] and then suddenly in this tournament they keep calling foot faults. I’m not going to sit here and make an excuse. If I foot fault, I did. It is what it is and that’s basically all it was.”
“I haven’t really thought about it to have any regrets. I try not to live my life saying, ‘I wish, I wish’ but I was out there and I fought and I tried and I did my best.”
Not that what Serena did was right, but if the line judge was calling her out on bogus foot faults, it would be distracting to her game, no doubt. And there is a lot at stake here for Serena, so you could why she would be freaking out. But what exactly did Serena say to the line judge?
One witness says she yelled: “You better be f___ing right! You don’t f___ing know me! You’re lucky I’m not shoving this ball down your throat!” Another heard something similar, “If I could, I would take this f___ing ball and shove it down your f___ing throat!” So either way, there were a lot of f-bombs and shoving balls down her throat. But the line judge must have heard Serena threaten her life because Serena was heard telling her and the other officials, “I never said I would kill you, are you serious?”
If there is anyone I wouldn’t want shoving a ball down my throat, it is Serena Williams! Bitch is musclebound, hell, she should have been a boxer!
oh man if i was that lines girl, i would have run for the hills if serena was threatening to open a can of whoop ass on me. i would rather have john mcenroe in his hey day go off on me than serena lol.
so very sad the words that came out of her was so sad