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Originally Posted by DonovanTrent
The judge that called the foot fault was right next to her, what are you talking about. Serena said afterwards that she probably DID foot fault and she didn't blame the judge for doing her job. Laughed my ass off, though, when she said in the post-match press conference that she didn't remember what she'd said to the linesman.  Yeah right, ok.
Serena needs to learn to keep her mouth shut and lose with some dignity, rather than making herself look like a dumbass. Though if she hasn't learned that by now, she probably never will. |
Serena certainly did overreact, but foot faults are one of those things that are so seldom called and probably happen a lot more often than they're called especially in big matches (no big tournament would ever want to see a match decided by a foot fault). If it was back in McEnroe days and McEnroe was called on it, he probably would have beaten the shit out of the woman and gotten warned, lol. Obviously things have come a long way since then and athletes are expected to hide their natural reactions and bite their lip, which is unfortunate for her.
It's not like she wasn't going to lose anyways though, so in the end while it's a crazy finish, I think she ultimately conceded the fact that she wasn't going to win that match the way she was playing regardless of the foot fault and outburst.
Regarding foot faults, I just played in a USTA sanctioned 3.5 level league months ago and it's just us players - there's no way in hell TO call foot faults. After my match one week, I was watching the #1 doubles teams playing and one of the guys on the opposing team kept sliding his foot forward about half a second before hitting the ball...obvious foot fault, and it was EVERY serve. But wtf are we supposed to do - if we WEREN'T watching it wouldn't be called, so it wouldn't seem right to call them on it simply because we happened to be done with our matches first and watching them. Didn't matter anyways because we were beating them, but still. Anyways, that's why I think it happens more often than it's ever called...it's something that I think a lot of people unintentionally do now and then without realizing it because it only takes a very slight foot movement to do.