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Biggest cost to Serena is tarnished image

John Jeansonne

Newsday columnist John Jeansonne.

Jeansonne has been a reporter in Newsday’s sports department since

Tennis officials Monday put a final price on Serena Williams' sulfurous outburst during September's U.S. Open semifinals - a record $82,500 fine and probation that, if violated, could cost Williams double that and ban her from a future Open. But any attempt to judge the appropriateness of the monetary penalty - too much? not enough? - misses the point.

All along, as authorities representing...

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