{"id":3365,"date":"2010-01-19T15:18:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T13:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=3365"},"modified":"2010-01-19T15:22:13","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T13:22:13","slug":"serena-williams-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/serena-williams-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams, Federer Advance at Australian Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Serena<\/a>There were no outbursts from Serena Williams here \u2014 at least on the court. She swiftly and, for the most part stoically, took apart her overmatched opponent, Urszula Radwanska, in straight sets. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Afterwards, however, the women\u2019s defending Australian Open champ pointedly questioned the fine given to her for threatening to shove a ball down a line judge\u2019s throat last summer at the U.S. Open.<\/p>\n

Williams, who was making her first Grand Slam appearance since the profanity-laced outburst, said she believed the $92,000 fine was too severe, and suggested that it would have been less is she had not been a woman.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know anyone who ever got fined like that, and people have said worse and done worse,\u201d said Williams, who could has been suspended from playing here.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just thought it was a bit much, but that was that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Williams said she was not making excuses for her bad behavior, and said she was trying to turn the incident into a positive by raising money for charities, including the victims of the earthquake in Haiti.<\/p>\n

Still, the world\u2019s top women\u2019s player would not let it go.<\/p>\n

\u201cNinety-two thousand dollars is a lot of money to fine someone,\u201d she said. \u201cI always said what I did wasn\u2019t right, but I turned that around and I\u2019m actually raising $92,000 to educate ladies, women, also for my school in Africa.\u201d<\/p>\nError, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 10)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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