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Politics : Support the French! Viva Democracy! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zonder who wrote (2260)	7/31/2003 8:25:25 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Respond to of 7834

What happened? The crowd was rooting for the hometown favorite, which is understandable, but they got a little carried away. Paris public make Serena cry The Roland Garros crowd will come under close scrutiny during the men's semi-finals after leaving Serena Williams in tears following her defeat on Thursday. There was astonishing hostility shown towards the defending women's champion in her three-set defeat to Justine Henin-Hardenne. Williams was consistently heckled by spectators and was even made to wait before delivering a second serve deep into the third set as the boos refused to subside. Such was the animosity shown towards the American that she broke down in tears at the post-match press conference and admitted the whole experience had been particularly torrid. "It was a very, very tough public out there, very tough but that is the story of my life," she said. "I have always had to fight hard in my life and it is another battle I am going to have to win. "I always try to please the crowd with my game. It's hard to fight against the whole crowd and it was not nice to hear the people applaud my mistakes." The furore detracted from what was a fine match and a wonderful win for Henin-Hardenne, who now faces Kim Clijsters in an all-Belgian final. ananova.com