Serena Williams Verbally Abuses Linesman at U.S. Open – Video

Sunday, September 13, 2009, 12:20 AM | Sports
Tags: Serena Williams, U.S. Open, Verbal Abuse, Video

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Nice controversial ending Serena Williams.

Kim Clijsters won the first set. Serena threw down her racket and got a warning for racket-abuse.

In the second set, Clijsters leads Serena 6-5. Serena is serving.

Down 15-30, her first serve is a fault. On her second serve, the linesman calls a foot fault, setting up match point.

Then Serena tells the linesman: “I swear to god I’m f***kin going to take this ball and shove it down your f**kin mouth.” Then continues with more profanity-laced threats.

Chair umpire calls the linesman and asks her what Serena told her — and then calls the tournament officials.

Serena is called to the chair and is heard saying “I didn’t say ‘I was going to kill you’.” (Gasp)

Officials talk to her, telling her she was just handed a point penalty for her second violation of tournament code of conduct. Being that it was match point, Kim Clijsters just won.Serena goes over to Kim to shake her hand.

John McEnroe later says that ‘you can’t defend the indefensible.’ Sure it was a bad call, but you can’t just shoot off your mouth like that in a public match and not expect some consequences. In the press conference, Serena admitted that she was not aware that she was in danger of getting a point penalty.

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