After watching the US Open Womens Doubles championship this afternoon (Williams sisters won it … of course), I really wondered why the tennis association allowed Serena Williams to compete in the finals after her outburst during the semi-finals a couple days before.

The outburst came after Serena was called for a foot-fault while serving to stay alive in the match. Once the fault was called, Serena decided to share her feelings with the ref (and the rest of the world) and lashed out in a profanity-filled tirade: 

If I could, I’d take this ******* ball and shove it down your ******* throat

Serena was then docked a point (which was match-point) which gave Kim Clijsters the win. (Clijsters eventually won the Womens US Open championship the next day!)

So back to today’s doubles match … after the Williams sisters powered to a 6-2 6-2 US Open Womens Doubles Championship, Patrick McEnroe decided to take advantage of the time he had while presenting the trophy to the sisters and ask Serena as many questions as possible about the outburst. After the third or fourth question from McEnroe, Venus grabbed the mic and basically said enough is enough and let the past be in the past.

The real question is … why didn’t the WTA suspend Williams from any further matches in this year’s US Open? I know it wouldn’t have been fair to her sister, but seriously … something needs to be done about this.