{"id":12814,"date":"2009-09-13T15:53:56","date_gmt":"2009-09-13T19:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=12814"},"modified":"2013-09-01T00:21:37","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T00:21:37","slug":"oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=12814","title":{"rendered":"Oh my .."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/ept_sports_ten_experts-981129409-1252813633.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12815\" title=\"match point\" alt=\"match point\" src=\"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/ept_sports_ten_experts-981129409-1252813633-203x300.jpg\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m speechless.<br \/>\nwhy did Serena always get screwed by the linemen\/officials? There should be a clear rule that prohibits a match be decided on a foot fault or by chair umpire.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The initial <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/ten\/blog\/busted_racquet\/post\/Serena-Williams-berates-official-loses-match-fo?urn=ten,189028\">foot fault that began the fireworks<\/a> was a terrible call. It was unconscionable. It cannot be made at the end of any match, let alone in the semifinals of the U.S. Open. This isn&#8217;t because a foot fault is a ridiculous call at that juncture (even though it is). <strong>It&#8217;s because it wasn&#8217;t a foot fault<\/strong>. The replays show that Serena&#8217;s foot was behind the line when she served. You could make the argument that it was close but not close enough to make the call.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Serena has been conducting herself graciously on court, I just couldn&#8217;t believe she&#8217;d lost her cool so badly. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=10711\">This isn&#8217;t the first time she&#8217;s been wronged at US Open<\/a>. It was her tourney to lose and she lost it .. ..<\/p>\n<p>Just saw the news flash indicating Serena is fined US$10,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m speechless. why did Serena always get screwed by the linemen\/officials? There should be a clear rule that prohibits a match be decided on a foot fault or by chair umpire. The initial foot fault that began the fireworks was a terrible call. It was unconscionable. It cannot be made at the end of any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,19],"class_list":["post-12814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tennis","tag-us-open"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}