Finally Meeting ‘The Serena Line Judge’
Posted on | March 17, 2010 |
Filed under: U.S. Open, Australian Open
INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — What I’ve always wanted to know was whether she was scared. Serena Williams, twice her size, stood over her, cursing, threatening and waving her racket at her, and for a while, that tiny woman just sat there in her chair, watching the whole thing without expression.
It was a journey to find the “famous” Serena Line Judge. I went from Chicago, where I live, to New York to Melbourne, Australia to Indian Wells. Well, I went to those places to watch tennis, too.
In the end, I got her by pure accident the other day, in front of a concession stand outside Stadium No. 3. I finally got to ask, and found out that yes, The Serena Line Judge was, in fact, afraid. Come to think of it, who wouldn’t have been?
Serena had bullied an official. When Williams had finished her tirade, the U.S. Tennis Association said it would not produce the line judge for an interview, and would not divulge her name.
What could they tell me about her? She lives in Japan or China. That was not much to go on.
Well, the line judge organization wasn’t giving up their judge’s name. Then in Melbourne for the Australian Open, word came that she was there. She would be a line judge in the Hit for Haiti event that Roger Federer had put together. She would have a reunion with Serena, who was playing the charity event, and everything would be smoothed over.
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