Unless you’re 25 or 30 years younger than I am, you probably won’t know that professional tennis used to be a game played by genteel men and women. Whenever a judge or umpire made a bad call, tennis players took their lumps and suffered in silence. All that ended in the ‘70s with the temper tantrums of men’s tennis superstars Jimmy Connors and John McEnroe.
Now ladies superstar Serena Williams has joined Connors and McEnroe with her own temper tantrum. During the U.S. Open ladies semi-finals, a line judge ruled against Serena with a rarely called foot fault when the game was at match-point. Serena went ballistic during a face to face confrontation with the line judge. There are several versions of what she yelled. Here are two of them:
"If I could, I would take this fucking ball and shove it down your fucking throat and kill you."
"I swear to God I’m fucking going to take this fucking ball and shove it down your fucking throat, you hear that? I swear to God."
No matter the version, here's the fucking rundown. Serena was fucking well pissed off, and probably rightly fucking so. The fucking umpire penalized her a fucking point, and since the fucking game was at match point, the fucking match automatically went to her fucking opponent.
God bless Serena Williams!
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