Sperm, er, Sprem upsets Venus Williams

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Venus loses in shocker featuring a bad call.

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WIMBLEDON, England -- Two-time champion Venus Williams was upset in the second round of Wimbledon on Thursday, losing in straight sets to Croatia's Karolina Sprem in a match marred by an umpire's scoring error in the final tiebreaker.

The 19-year-old Sprem, ranked No. 30, outplayed Williams on Centre Court 7-6 (5), 7-6 (6) in the first major surprise of the championships.

But the result was clouded in controversy over the scoring in the second-set tiebreaker. Chair umpire Ted Watts incorrectly called the score as 2-2, giving Sprem a point when instead she should have been taking a second serve.
 
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z0mb13

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Originally posted by: Xiety
Originally posted by: z0mb13
I hate the william sisters..

they are too ugly..
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Fixed.
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that too!!

and to think serena even appeared at the sports illustrated swimsuit edition!!

where is the :puke; emoticon..
 
ThePresence

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That sucks. The umpire lost the match for her. Although it's her right to challenge the score...even so.
 
waggy

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Originally posted by: ThePresence
That sucks. The umpire lost the match for her. Although it's her right to challenge the score...even so.
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bah her crappy play is what lost it for her.

sheesh
 
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Carbo

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They are ugly, aren't they? And the tall one, Venus the Penus, sure as hell borders on having male chromosones. Look at her and tell me she ain't Sugar Ray Leonard wearing a fright wig and crappy jewelry.
 
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xchangx

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Anyone notice that the commentators were the only ones making a big deal about the bad call? Sprem and Williams didn't really care or at least they didn't show it.
 
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Originally posted by: lnguyen
she had 3 set point opportunities... she blew it.

But still sucks. heh.
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Not to mention the chances she blew in the first set tie breaker. Notice how Venus didnt blame the bad call for her loss?
 
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If anyone watched it, would you please explain how they dealt with the fact that nobody caught this considering the ad/deuce court serving issues and the fact that in a tiebreaker Sprem is supposed to get two service points in a row then it changes back to Venus? I know that last sentence makes no sense at all, but let me explain:

Sprem's first serve at 2-1 is to the ad court. 1st serve out (Sprem wrongly awarded point to make it 2-2). Sprem serves her second serve and Venus is awarded a point (wrong score is now 3-2). Considering that two points have been awarded on one service, both players should then move to the deuce court and prepare for Sprem to serve again. But then the ump tells them that it's Venus's serve? How in the world does this happen and nobody notice? Not even Venus's coach or family yell at her telling her of the mistake? How did they not notice this immediately after the wrong score was called??? I can understand this happening in a regular game where one person is serving the whole game, but not in a tie-break with alternating serves every two points. It just doesn't make sense.
 
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Originally posted by: Izzo
If anyone watched it, would you please explain how they dealt with the fact that nobody caught this considering the ad/deuce court serving issues and the fact that in a tiebreaker Sprem is supposed to get two service points in a row then it changes back to Venus? I know that last sentence makes no sense at all, but let me explain:

Sprem's first serve at 2-1 is to the ad court. 1st serve out (Sprem wrongly awarded point to make it 2-2). Sprem serves her second serve and Venus is awarded a point (wrong score is now 3-2). Considering that two points have been awarded on one service, both players should then move to the deuce court and prepare for Sprem to serve again. But then the ump tells them that it's Venus's serve? How in the world does this happen and nobody notice? Not even Venus's coach or family yell at her telling her of the mistake? How did they not notice this immediately after the wrong score was called??? I can understand this happening in a regular game where one person is serving the whole game, but not in a tie-break with alternating serves every two points. It just doesn't make sense.
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The line judges, chair judge, and both players didnt do anything.

The crowd didnt react either(Joe Williams or Sprems Coach).

So who knows.
 
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In other sports, there would be ENDLESS WHINING about the bad officiating. Good to see civilized behavior somewhere.
 
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the williams sisters are very ugly but american so i always cheer for them.. unless they are playing a hot american chick :)
 
waggy

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Originally posted by: digitalsm
Originally posted by: lnguyen
she had 3 set point opportunities... she blew it.

But still sucks. heh.
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Not to mention the chances she blew in the first set tie breaker. Notice how Venus didnt blame the bad call for her loss?
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actually later she did complain about it. So did her sister.
 
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