That Stosur match was the one where Serena flipped out at the umpire after getting penalised for shouting out before the point was over.
ok - so serena';s fault then.
still -- with a history behind her of CLEARLY bad calls that cost her actual titles -- who can expect her to not be remembering it could be happening again as the match wore on to elicit that kind of ''out' call from her and then get penalized?
bad judgment from her part - and probably poor playing besides...but NO ONE in their wildest dreams can imagine stosur is ANYWHERE near as good a player as serena, NOT EVEN stosur herself despite that win - so the point is the total perspective of bad calls that have somehow hovered ''around" serena especially at the USO.
apart FROM that fiasco of henin at the FO -- TO her own years later admission that SHE did ''oush the envelope" ""because i wanted to win so much, u know? " as if that is a moral excuse...for what she clearly did...
serena seldom if ever complained that much about calls in the other majors - heck , she and sister venus are famous for RARELY even questioning or challenging calls.
it is a well-known FACT - attested to by the veteran legends themselves that RARELY does serena make WRONG calls or corrections or challenges to umpire calls, RARELY , if ever. and one of the few uncannily accurate players (like PETE was - that people seldom remember) - that if she says 'it was out" it WAS out - or her ball was in - it was IN...
SHE DIDN'T get to be who she is without that very extraordinary feel for even the fraction of an inch ...
it used to be a story about pete...
during a match or a practice -- in the beginning he'd make a quiet note to the official or umpire or people watching -- "that net is a half inch too high"
and they go on with the game anyway - - after which they check - and indeed the net was EXACTLY as he said it was. how did he know?
he just did - that's how accurate his shots were calibrated to reach just that half inch over the net for a particular purpose -- while of course having to adjust anyway.
so when serena begins to get umpire's attention to SOMETHING -- that IS serious and THEY should shape up IMMEDIATELY so as to not affect the player's performance and concentration with lingering concern that she may be 'robbed" of points.
that's the point there.
