Serena Williams Skipping WTA Indian Wells to Cost $3 Million?


Posted on March 13, 2009

The LA Time's tennis writer Bill Dwyre does the math, and figures that Serena Williams loses out on approximately $3 million by skipping the Indian Wells event this week.

That's a lot of dough to stand up for a charge of "racism" slurs, heard by Richard Williams but by neither of his daughters Venus or Serena. LA Times (3/13).
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