Serena Williams says other tennis players have said worse things and behaved worse than she did Saturday night at the U.S. Open. She’s right, and Memphis tennis fans have seen it.
Jimmy Connors and John McEnroe have raged against fans, umpires, linesmen, and themselves in matches at the Racquet Club of Memphis. Their antics were endured in silence by the linesmen and lineswomen, but they were no less boorish than William’s f-bomb-laced tirade of the lineswoman who called a ridiculous foot fault on her at the end of her semifinal match against Kim Clijsters.
One of the biggest changes in tennis is how much better the sportsmanship is since the Connonrs-McEnroe era.
