SERENA SLAMS US OPEN AS SEXISTAUSTRALIAN OPEN UNDERWAY, SERENA, LOOKING TO REBOUND, PUTS HERSELF BACK IN SPOTLIGHT
There were no outbursts from Serena Williams here — at least on the court. She swiftly and, for the most part stoically, took apart her overmatched opponent, Urszula Radwanska, in straight sets. Afterwards, however, the women’s defending Australian Open champion pointedly questioned the fine given to her for threatening to shove a ball down a line judge’s throat last summer at the United States Open. Williams, who was making her first Grand Slam appearance since the profanity-laced outburst, said she believed the $92,000 fine was too severe, and suggested that it would have been less if she had not been a woman. “I don’t know anyone who ever got fined like that, and people have said worse and done worse,” said Williams, who could have been suspended from playing here. “I just thought it was a bit much, but that was that.” (NY Times)
There were no outbursts from Serena Williams here — at least on the court. She swiftly and, for the most part stoically, took apart her overmatched opponent, Urszula Radwanska, in straight sets. Afterwards, however, the women’s defending Australian Open champion pointedly questioned the fine given to her for threatening to shove a ball down a line judge’s throat last summer at the United States Open. Williams, who was making her first Grand Slam appearance since the profanity-laced outburst, said she believed the $92,000 fine was too severe, and suggested that it would have been less if she had not been a woman. “I don’t know anyone who ever got fined like that, and people have said worse and done worse,” said Williams, who could have been suspended from playing here. “I just thought it was a bit much, but that was that.” (NY Times)
You tell it, Serena!
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