Richard Williams, Venus', Serenas' Pappy On Racist Rant

[Johnny99]

DICK Williams Hates Whites, Is Not An American

Richard Williams holds forth about a life beyond the baseline

People in the tennis world are prejudiced

R Satya

Just like his daughters Venus and Serena, Richard Williams is a familiar figure at most tennis centres across the world.

While his daughters make headlines with their brand of tennis, father Williams does so with his statements. Unafraid to speak his mind, Williams, who was in the Garden City last week for the Bangalore Open, spoke to Deccan Herald on Venus and Serena's early years and about a life beyond the baseline. Excerpts:

Growing up, did Venus and Serena rebel against playing tennis?
No, I don't think so, but I wanted Venus to start running track by the time she was nine years old. She wanted to keep on playing tennis. Serena will always do what Venus does. No matter what Venus does in tennis everyday, Serena will do what Venus does.

Did they have interests other than tennis in their formative years?
Yeah, they had lots of interests. Education, playing games, reading all kind of books… They were lot of other things they were really, really interested in.

Did they excel in any other sports?
I think both of them would have been great golfers. They used to hit golf balls when they were small. They didn't have a handicap, they didn't play that good. But you could see their strokes and their techniques were there.

How were they as kids?
We didn't have any problems with Venus and Serena when they were kids, because they always had interests in things that they wanted to do. If they couldn't find one I found one for them.

I strongly believe that family is the greatest institution that a human being can have. They were institutionalised to do things and learn to do other things other than tennis.

Did you have a back-up plan for them?
I knew they were going to be good anyway. I certainly did. Venus wanted to be an anthropologist and Serena wanted to be a veterinarian. They loved education so much to this day.

The two never did well at the same time, especially in the Grand Slams, what was the problem?
I think it might have been the media. I think it might have been the players in the media. When my girls win, they always said they won too much. Right, boon, they lost because of the media.

When they didn't win, something was wrong with them. I think this is the worst media job that they have done on any human being in the world.

If I was them I would have quit. They made enough money, they have enough money. When Venus plays or Serena plays, they draw more people than anyone in the world. It doesn't matter if they are No 1 or No 301, they always draw people. If someone else was No 1, it was good for tennis, if it was Blacks, it was not. I think it was ridiculous what they did to my two girls. Right, boon, like made them multi millionaires.

How did it affect you and your family?
It didn't affect us. We were trained for something like that. Tennis is a prejudice game. Well, I'm Black and I'm prejudiced, very prejudiced. I'll be always prejudiced as the White man. The White man hated me all my life and I hate him. That's no secret. I'm not even an American, it just so happens that I was born in America. People are prejudiced in tennis. I don't think Venus or Serena was ever accepted by tennis. They never will be. But if you get some little White no good trasher in America like Tracy Austin or Chris Evert who cannot hit the ball, they will claim this is great. This nigra should decide what he is, then he should go there and not come back.

What's your opinion on the depth in women's tennis?
I haven't seen the best players yet. The best players are in the ghetto here in India and in the ghetto in Compton. Those kids don't get a chance.

If you could teach them tennis, maybe in ten years you will see real tennis players. If you give the ghetto players the opportunities, you see better tennis players, better soccer players and you will see the best of the best.
I don't think no one is interested in poor people. Everyone likes you to say something nice, why don't we all do something nice. And if we do that, we will have something going.

Your daughters have been plagued by injuries in recent times. Do you think they can reclaim the No 1 spot?
I think they are No 1 right now as far as I'm concerned. They have always been No 1 before they were No 1 to me. I think they can easily be No 1 in women's tennis. They have speed, they have power. Right now, they are more interested in learning to develop more businesses. Great niggerbabble ,eh?
There were taught that there is a life behind the baseline. If you look at most of your tennis players when they are finished playing tennis, where are they going? Look at (John) McEnroe, (Martina) Navratilova, Vijay Amritraj, look at all of them. All their lives they have been in sports, where are they now? Do you want that for your child?
You go spend 20 years playing tennis and another 20 years announcing tennis, that is 40 years of your life, you mean, you never learnt anything else!?

My daughters are not that way, they'll never be that way either. My daughters go to college. They own businesses and run businesses. So when they are out of tennis, they will keep on making tons and tons and millions and millions. There (pointing to Venus), I'm not looking at a tennis player, that's a business lady. And she understands it.

How long do you see them playing tennis?
They will quit when they get ready. I don't see it. Doubt to see it. Whenever it is, it'll be their decision.

[Tuffy]

Serena Williams makes a fool of herself and deserves punishment

Serena Williams offered no apology and showed no remorse for her behavior during her U.S. Open semifinal loss to Kim Clijsters, 6-4, 7-5. (Darron Cummings / Associated Press)





September 13, 2009
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Let's get right to the point. Serena Williams should be fined heavily and suspended for a while from the pro tennis tour.

Let's see what kind of guts the normally soft-on-discipline sport of tennis has this time. If she were an Oregon football player, she'd be out for the season.

If you saw it on television, you know what happened, you know that she made a fool out of herself Saturday night in an ugly incident at
the U.S. Open. If you didn't see it, we'll confirm it:

Serena Williams made a fool out of herself Saturday night in an ugly incident at the U.S. Open.

The quick details are:

* She was given a point penalty on match point, which meant she lost her semifinal to Kim Clijsters, 6-4, 7-5.*

She was given the point penalty because, after a linesperson called a foot fault on her first serve at 15-40, she went over to the linesperson, shook her fist at her, and from just several feet away, said, according to several witnesses courtside, "You don't know me. You better be right. I could shove this ball down your throat." Interspersed with this were several F-bombs.

* The lineswoman was called to the chair umpire to report what had been said. The chair umpire had given Williams a warning/code violation at the end of the first set, when Williams smashed her racket to the court and broke it. That is a routine call for chair umpires. A second violation called from the
chair is loss of a point, a third loss of the match. Williams' second violation was on match point.

* The point violation was assessed after a conference around the umpire's chair that included chair umpire Louise Engzell, tournament referee Brian Earley, the unidentified lineswoman and Williams. During that confab, Williams was overheard on TV microphones as denying she had threatened to kill the lineswoman.

Quickly, Williams was tossing her racket on her bag and walking to the back of the court, where a confused Clijsters spread her palms open as if to say, "What's going on?" and then accepted Williams' handshake and short hug.

Since the days of John McEnroe and maybe Ilie Nastase, there hasn't been much of this in tennis. This might have gone well beyond those days in severity.

It was on network television, in one of the most-anticipated matches of the entire tournament. Millions watched.

It went well beyond the McEnroe tirade stage into body language and
direct verbiage that was threatening and ugly.

It was an embarrassment to a sport that has made good strides recently in expanding its niche. The U.S Tennis Assn. loves to talk about its "grass-roots" programs, geared to getting rackets into young players' hands. Now those young hands have a role model for racket-smashing and bad language.

As bad as this incident was, leaving a three-quarters-filled Arthur Ashe Stadium in near stunned silence, worse was Williams' handling of the aftermath in a news conference. There, she had a chance to apologize, or maybe even fake some remorse. She did neither.

Instead, we got the usual, phony, sing-songy deflections and silly answers -- all done with a big smile, as if she had just won, 6-0, 6-0.

Examples:

Question: What did you say?

Answer: What did I say? You didn't hear? Oh.

Q. Do you think the lineswoman had any reason to feel threatened. Apparently she says she felt threatened?

A. She says she felt threatened
. She said this to you?

Q. I'm just repeating what has been said that she told the chair umpire.

A. Well, I've never been in a fight in my whole life, so I don't know why she would be threatened.

Q. Do you regret losing your temper both after the first set and after the foot fault?

A. I haven't really thought about it to have any regrets. I try to -- I've done -- you know, I try to not live my life saying, I wish, I wish. But, you know, I was out there and fought and I tried and I did my best.

Q. You've always prided yourself on being an extremely forthright player, and with us here in the press room. Could you tell us what you said on the court, please?

A. I don't think that's necessary for me to speak about that. I've let it go, and I'm trying to better -- to, you know, to get -- to move on.

Q. Do you think the lineswoman deserves an apology?

A. An apology for?

Q. From you.

A. From me?

Q. Would you be interested to see if
you actually foot faulted?

A. I'm pretty sure I did. If she called a foot fault, she must have seen a foot fault. I mean, she was doing her job. I'm not going to knock her for not doing her job.

The public that watched this ugly farce will be watching closely now. It will see if tennis pretends that this somehow wasn't as outrageous as it clearly was, and that it didn't wipe out years of image-building in the sport.

If it goes without being addressed, then tennis is just telling us it cares only about our ticket money and us in front of the television set, but not our respect, loyalty or admiration.

Best guess? Tennis will pretend this was all a Las Vegas card game and let it ride.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-...5348697.column

[Rasp]

Savage subprimates should not be allowed to compete against humans in sport.



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[White Boy]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worl...ve-throat.html



Furious Serena Williams dumped out of U.S. Open after she told an official: 'If I could, I'd take this ball and shove it down your throat'
By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 7:23 PM on 13th September 2009
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Serena Williams went kicking and screaming out of the semi-final of the US Open tennis championship after one of the ugliest ever endings to a major sports match.

Millions of TV viewers around the world saw the irate Wimbledon champion launch a threatening, profanity-laced tirade at a line judge af
ter being called for a foot fault.

The extraordinary outburst meant she was docked a point on match point, handing victory to bemused Belgian opponent Kim Clijsters.

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Enlarge Enlarge Serena's fault: The player launches into her nasty tirade at an official during the U.S. Open today

‘If I could, I would take this **** ball and shove it down your **** throat,’ she reportedly said.

Having already been warned earlier in the match for smashing a racquet, Williams was docked a penalty point by the umpire for ‘unsportsmanlike conduct’ to bring the match to a shocking close without another shot being played.

With the crowd booing, making part of the dialogue inaudible, Williams could then be heard on the court microphone pleading with the judges, saying: ‘I didn’ t say I would kill you. Are you serious? I didn’t say that.’

The 27-year-old American was unrepentant after the Saturday night debacle, even though t
he diminutive lineswoman told the chair judge she felt threatened.

‘All hell broke loose,’ said former tennis bad boy John McEnroe.

Serena Williams argues a call by the line judge, leading to her disqualification for a conduct violation
Not since McEnroe himself was defaulted in the Austrlian Open in 1990 for swearing at the umpire has a top player made such an ignominious exit from such a high profile match.

Her exit came after a marquee match that featured plenty of powerful ground strokes and lengthy exchanges.

But few will remember a single shot at Flushing Meadows in New York because of the dramatic way it ended.

With Williams serving at 5-6 and 15-30 in the second set, she faulted on her first serve. On her second serve, a line judge called a foot fault, a call rarely, if ever, seen at that stage of a match, let alone the semi-final of a Grand Slam tournament.

That made the score 15-40, putting Clijsters one point from a place in the final.

Ins
tead of stepping to the baseline to serve again, Williams stormed over to the line judge in a rage, cursing and shaking her racquet, pointing at her and thrusting a ball in her face.

The line judge went over to the chair umpire, and tournament referee Brian Earley joined in the conversation.

Williams then went over and said to the line judge: 'Sorry, but there are a lot of people who've said way worse.'

'And it just happened that point penalty was match point. It was a code violation for unsportsmanlike conduct.'

When the ruling was announced, Williams walked around the net to the other end of the court to shake hands with a stunned Clijsters, who did not appear to understand what had happened.

Asked in her post match news conference what she said to the line judge, she would say only: ‘What did I say? You didn’t hear?

‘I’ve never been in a fight in my whole life, so I don’t know why she would have felt threatened,’ she added with a smile.


Asked whether she owed the judge an apology, she didn't appear to thing it was necessary.

‘I haven’t really thought about it to have any regrets. I was out there and I fought and I tried and I did my best,' she said.

‘I used to have a real temper, and I’ve gotten a lot better,’ explained Williams, with no apparent sense of irony.

‘So I know you don’t believe me, but I used to be worse. Yes, yes indeed.’
Lost in the theatrics was Clijsters accomplishment in returning to the spotlight after being retired for two-and-a-half years to become the first mother to reach a Grand Slam final since Evonne Goolagong won Wimbledon in 1980.

But the 26-year-old Belgian, who beat the older Williams sister, Venus, in the fourth round, admitted afterwards: ‘The normal feelings of winning a match weren’t really there.

‘There are rules and you know it’s just unfortunate that it has to happen on a match point.’

Williams came into the day having won t
hree of the last four Grand Slams – including Wimbledon – and 30 of her previous 31 matches in major tournaments.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worl...#ixzz0R1aMuiIf

[reset]

A nigger chimps out and then it's racist if the media reports it?

ANYTHING that happens to a GD nigger is racist.

That's the way this works, including the U.S. presidency....

[Cali4yaokie]

You can actually hear this sow deny "threatening to kill" the ref.

[The Bobster]

As bad as this incident was, leaving a three-quarters-filled Arthur Ashe Stadium in near stunned silence, worse was Williams' handling of the aftermath in a news conference. There, she had a chance to apologize, or maybe even fake some remorse. She did neither.

Ah di-int doo nuffins!

[reset]

It is so predictable--a "po nigga" coming up in da hood, jes wonts a chanct...

Then, the nigger gets a few bucks and BLAM, they start to believe the world should kiss their ass just because they tell it to.

After a nigger arrives, there is no humility and nothing but arrogance and contempt for the very people that gave them the chance to compete. Niggers did the same to the Jews and all the Whites that marched with them in Washington, D.C. It is the only currency a nigger will repay anyone that should be foolish enough to help them.

[Crusader]

Originally Posted by Rasp

Savage subprimates should not be allowed to compete against humans in sport.



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