Dobey:Serena should think about what Monica Seles went through and then Serena will be able, finally, to stop brooding about one bad call. Monica was stabbed and robbed of her career because of lax security in Germany. She had to spend years of her prime recovering physically and psychologically. And what was done to her, due in part to horrible ...

Aaliyah on McEnroe: Exactly, precisely, perfectly correct.

When a consensus cannot be reached, when a ''clear mistake'' cannot be determined in tennis, then the point can be replayed. This is precisely the reason that the Hawkeye/Challenge system has been implemented.  Someone makes a call and someone else makes an opposing call; the ''clear mistake'' cannot be confirmed one way or the other.  Enter ...

The rules cited from the ''all-about-tennis'' web page are exactly the same as the USTA rules; rules don't change just because they aren't on an official web site (you don't have to go to MLB.com or NFL.com to find out the rules of baseball or football for example). The following sentences in quotations are taken from the ITF (International ...

Sorry, but you don't get it and your struggle to distort the facts as they actually unfolded makes it doubtful that you will ever get it. 1.  Again, a ridiculously bad call leads to unbelievably bad behavior.  That's what happened.  The line judge did her job very badly and Serena responded very badly.   2. Judging by the never ending tendency ...

Now, there's a corker: using the word ''Lordy'' and ''hatred'' in the same sentence.  Absolutely astounding!  Hey, ''hatemeister'', don't implode (was it something I wrote?) but I have to clue you to the fact that you really don't get it. The linesperson shouldn't have to sit there and take verbal abuse from anyone.  But when she does her job ...

Hmmm, wonder how John McEnroe and Jimmy Conners and Nastase and Djokovic and Federer in his younger days (he's even smashed his racquet in recent years) might have reacted had a foot fault been called against them at a critical moment in a Major tournament?  Any ideas? Serena's reaction did not occur in a vacuum, unrelated to any sort of ...

It's not important that you care what McEnroe sees.  The only important thing is what the video shows and unless you are suffering from myopia or macular degeneration or astigmatism or glaucoma or just plain old conjunctivitis it is absolutely clear that Serena's foot did not touch the line and certainly did not go over the line. No way, no ...

John McEnroe at the broadcast microphone during the CBS broadcast of the US Open women's semifinal match between Kim Clijsters and Serena Williams: ''Foot fault?!'' (incredulous after the call was made) ''I don't see it at all.'' (after watching the replay). ''You can't make that call there!'' (and you could hear that old McEnroe ire rising in ...

NastaseForever:Johnny Mac should keep his mouth shut. This isn't the NBA. A foot fault is a foot fault whether it's in the first round or the semis. Well, if McEnroe did keep his mouth shut he probably wouldn't be in that broadcast booth for long, seeing as his pay is dependent upon his spoken commentary. Additionally, significant evidence (get ...