"Ranked number one in the world among female tennis professionals in 2002, Serena Williams had become one of the sport's most exciting and closely watched young players. With her older sister Venus, she formed half of a tennis-prodigy pair that had been making headlines from an early age. As an African American in a historically white- and European-dominated sport, she found herself in the spotlight and under scrutiny."
"You could call this movie the prequel to the hit television series. Jerri Blank (Amy Sedaris) is an ex-con, an ex-prostitute and an ex-junkie. She tells her story as she is about to get out of the big house. You see, Jerri is going back home to see her Dad who is in a coma. She finds out that while she was having a ball (literally) in jail, that her Mom has passed on. Adding to the shock, she finds out that Dad has remarried."
Grand Slam administrator Bill Babcock tells The Associated Press that Serena
Williams has been fined a record $82,500 for her tirade at this year's U.S.
Open
I used to love to watch Womens tennis but the grunting has gotten so out of hand that lowering the TV volume is not good enough anymore. More female players
Williams is threatened by the heaviest punishment since Jeff Tarango was
banned from returning to Wimbledon in 1996 after accusing French umpire
Bruno Rebeuh
Excessive grunting was introduced to tennis by Monica Seles, developed by
Serena Williams and recently perfected by Michelle Larcher de Brito, a
16-year-old
Serena Williams has come to Beijing to erase the memory of the tirade she launched at a line judge in her US Open semi-final loss to eventual champion Kim