Equality?

After reading the article about Serena Williams being fined $82,500 and put on probation for her outburst at the US Open earlier this year, I thought that it was a little unreasonable and that it was because she is expected to behavior in a more appropriate manner since she is a female. We see men get frustrated and publicly display it but yelling obscenities and even throwing a racket here and there and not much is really thought of it. However, after doing some research on others that had been fined in the sport of tennis. The only other person that had been fined a significant amount was Jeff Tarango. After seeing what his offensives were and how much he was penalized I began to realize that what Serena Williams was receiving was not so bad after all. I was also really surprised to see that just because she is a female there were not any unfair decisions made about the fines. It was nice to see that tennis has taken a step in the right direction in equality for men and women's sports.

Marissa Herrera
Kin 338I Sect.1