In all fairness who else in tennis history has been the recipient of so many unjust calls?
Mmmmm, she has been been on the wrong end of some bad calls.
The hand incident
The 5+ bad calls USO 04
Martinez Sanchez@ French this year.
BUT as a Serena fan myself, its not the incidnet itself which bothers me, but her attitude afterwards.
She rebounded really well after the USO by playing sensational @ Doha, going 5-0 against the best and reclaiming her no 1 status. She makes a statement after the decision by the ITF stating that she hopes everyone can move on from this incident.
THEN she comes out with this article, stating that she is the victim of sexisim and the ITF are unfairly treating her. She was verbally abusise, however made NO threats to kill or at any point going to assault her, as some on her crazily insinuate, but it was completley inappropriate behaviour.
But in the age of Youtube/Internet and widespead media, behaviour like this will be replayed over and over and make a bigger impact than it may have 15 years ago whereas if you missed the incident, you would only probably catch the highlights on the news or see a picture from a paper.
Also, £90,000 is less than a 1 match in wages for Serena, so her complaints of how big the fine are don't ring true for such a wealthy woman, she is talking like she is a pauper.
I am also uneasy with the concept of raising the amount she was fined to go empowering women, as she is caiming that she was wronged by men @ ITF and she wants to make sure women stand up for themselves, where the real issue for all of this was her poor on court behaviour. Empowering women is a good cause but the concept/orign of why she is doing it is flawed,
I like her idea of raising the money and if she attached it to a more positive concept and not the connoations of herself being a victim, it would sit easier with me.
I can see how all of the haters/controversy/drama's why Serena reached a 'breaking point' but is does still not excuse her poor attitude that day.
I love Serena as a person (usually) and as a tennis player, but she started all this so she is in no way a victim. Her treatment by the ITF was IMHO reasonable and fair, and I think they would have done the same thing to Federer if he would have done the same thing at the USO, rather than just curse @ umpire.