IN BRIEF
MONROEVILLE — Center Township resident Will Nesbitt, 15, won the boys 18-and-under tennis tournament at Club 4 Life over the weekend.
After winning his first round match by default, Nesbitt defeated Andrew Wolgemuth of Central Pennsylvania 6-1, 6-1, Bennett Salvatora of Pittsburgh 6-7, 6-3, 6-1 and Gavin Studner of Radnor 7-5, 7-5.
Serena Williams was fined a record $82,500 Monday for her tirade at a U.S. Open line judge last summer and could be suspended from that tournament if she has another "major offense" at any Grand Slam in the next two years.Grand Slam administrator Bill Babcock's ruling was released, and he said Williams faces a "probationary period" at tennis' four major championships in 2010 and 2011. If she has another "major offense" at a Grand Slam tournament in that time, the fine would increase to $175,000 and she would be barred from the following U.S. Open.Williams lashed out at a lineswoman after a foot-fault call at the end of her semifinal loss to eventual champion Kim Clijsters at the U.S. Open in September. It was a profanity-laced, finger-pointing, racket-brandishing display in which Williams approached the official with what U.S. Open tournament director Jim Curley called at the time "a threatening manner."
