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Wimbledon: Serena Williams fined $10K for court damage

July 9 (UPI) -- Serena Williams has been fined $10,000 for damaging a court at Wimbledon, while men's tennis player Fabio Fognini was fined $3,000 for saying he wished the All-England Club was bombed.
The BBC and Sky Sports reported Williams' and Fognini's fines Monday.
The damage occurred during a practice session before the tournament began at the All-England Club in London. Williams is playing in the quarterfinals Tuesday against fellow American Alison Riske.
Fognini, 32, made the bombing comments during his straight sets loss to Tennys Sandgren in the third round Saturday in London.
"I wish a bomb would explode on this club," Fognini said during the match. "A bomb should explode here."
Fognini addressed the comments at his news conference Saturday.
"If I feel sorry for somebody, I have to say sorry," Fognini told reporters. "Now I have to be focused on the second half of the season."
Nick Kyrgios also received two fines totaling $8,000 for unsportsmanlike conduct.
Moments from the 2019 Wimbledon Championship
Serena Williams of the U.S. high fives Andy Murray of Britain in their second round mixed doubles match against Fabrice Martin of France and Raquel Atawo of the U.S. on Tuesday. Williams and Murray won the match 6-4,6-1. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Williams and Murray returned the ball in their second round mixed doubles match. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Williams returns the ball with Murray. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Williams returns the ball in her Quarter-Final match with Alison Riske of the U.S. on Tuesday. Williams won the match 6-4,4-6,6-3. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Williams has a medical time out. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Williams celebrates in her Quarter-Final match with Riske. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Williams (R) shakes the hand of her competitor Riske. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Zhang Shuai of China returns the ball in her Quarter-Final match with Simona Halep of Romania at Wimbledon. Halep won the match 7,6-6-1. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Halep returns the ball in her Quarter-Final match with Shuai. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Elina Svitolina of Romania returns the ball in her Quarter-Final match with Karolina Muchova of Russia on Tuesday. Svitolina won the match 7,5-6-4. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Barbora Strycova of the Czech Republic returns the ball in her Quarter-Final match with Johanna Konta of Britain. Strycova won the match 7,6-6-1. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Konta congratulates Strycova in her Quarter-Final victory. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Serena Williams of the U.S. returns the ball in her fourth round match against Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain on Monday. Williams defeated Navarro 6-2, 6-2. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Williams questions a call in her fourth round match against Navarro. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Cori Gauff of the U.S. returns the ball in her fourth round match against Simona Halep of Romania. Halep defeated Gauff 6-3, 6-3. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Novak Djokovic of Serbia returns the ball in his fourth round match against Ugo Hubert of France. Djokovic defeated Hubert 6-3,6-2,6-3. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Roger Federer of Switzerland returns the ball in his fourth round match against Matteo Berrettini of Italy. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Kei Nishikori of Japan returns the ball in his fourth round match against Mikhail Kukushkin of Russia. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Kukushkin returns the ball in his match against Nishikori. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Serena Williams of the U.S. high fives Andy Murray of Britain in their first round mixed doubles match against Alexa Guarachi of Chile and Andreas Mies of Germany on Saturday. Williams and Murray won the match 6-4,6-1. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Roger Federer of Switzerland returns the ball in his third round match against Lucas Pouille of France on Saturday. Federer won the match 7-5,6-2,7-6. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
American Serena Williams celebrates victory in her third round match with German Julia Georges at Wimbledon on Saturday. Williams won the match 6-4, 6-3. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
American Serena Williams returns the ball in her third round match with German Julia Georges at Wimbledon on Saturday. Williams won the match 6-4, 6-3. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Spain’s Rafael Nadal returns against France’s Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the third round match at Wimbledon on Saturday. Nadal defeated Tsonga 6-2, 6-3,6-2. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Spain’s Rafael Nadal celebrates victory against France’s Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the third round match at Wimbledon on Saturday9. Nadal defeated Tsonga 6-2, 6-3, 6-2. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Britain’s Johanna Konta returns against American Sloane Stephens in the third round match at Wimbledon on Saturday. Konta defeated Stephens. 3-6, 6-4,6-1. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Australian Ashleigh Barty returns in her third round match with Britain’s Harriet Dart at Wimbledon on Saturday. Barty won the match 6-1, 6-1. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Cori Gauff of the U.S. celebrates victory in her third round match against Polona Hercog of Slovakia on Friday. Gauff won the match 3-6,7-6, 7-5. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Gauff returns the ball in her third round match with Hercog. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Novak Djokovic of Serbia returns the ball in his third round match with Hubert Hurkacz of Poland. Djokovic won the match 7-5,6-7, 6-1,6-4. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Anderson returns the ball in his third round match against Pella. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Guido Pella of Argentina returns the ball against Kevin Anderson of South Africa in the third round match. Pella won 6-4, 6-3, 7-6. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Rafael Nadal of Spain returns against Nick Kyrgios of Australia in the second round match on Thursday. Nadal won the match 6-3, 3-6, 7-6, 7-6. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Kyrgios grimaces during play against Nadal. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Serena Williams of the U.S. pumps her fist after defeating Kaja Juvan of Slovenia in the second round match. Williams won the match 2-6, 6-2, 6-4. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Roger Federer of Switzerland in action against Jay Clarke of Britain in the second round match. Federer defeated Clarke 6-1,7-6,6-2. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Kei Nishikori of Japan in action against Britain’s Cameron Norrie in the second round match. Nishikori defeated Norrie 6-4,6-4,6-0. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Taylor Fritz of the U.S. in action against Jan-Lennard Struff of Germany in the second round match on Thursday. Struff defeated Fritz 6-4, 6-3, 5-7, 7-6. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Sloane Stephens of the U.S. in action against Yafan Wang of China in the second round match. Stephens defeated Wang 6-0,6-1. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Ashleigh Barty of Australia in action against Alison Van Uytvanck of Belgium in the second round match. Barty defeated Van Uytvanck 6-1, 6-3. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Cori Gauff of the U.S. in action against Slovakian Magdalena Rybarikova in their second round match on Wednesday. Gauff won the match 6-2.6-3. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Veronica Kudermetova of Russia in action against Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark in their second round match. Wozniacki won 7-6, 6-3. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark in action against Veronica Kudermetova of Russia in their second round match. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Kudermetova in action against Wozniacki. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Novak Djokovic of Serbia in action against Denis Kudla of the U.S. in their second round match on Wednesday. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Verdsasco in action against Edmund. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Kyle Edmund of Britain in action against Fernando Verdasco of Spain in their second round match on Wednesday. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Watson in action against Kontaveit in the second round match. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Anett Kontaveit of Estonia in action against Heather Watson of Britain in the second round match on Wednesday. Kontaveit won the match 7-5,6-1. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Opelka in action against Wawrinka in the second round match. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland in action against Reilly Opelka of the U.S. in the second round match at Wimbledon on Wednesday. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Maria Sharapova of Russia serves in her first round match against Pauline Parmentier of France. Sharapova retired hurt and lost the match. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Williams celebrates victory over Gatto-Konticone. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Serena Williams of the U.S. celebrates victory over Giulia Gatto-Konticone of Italy in her first round match on Tuesday. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Rafa Nadal of Spain serves during his first round match against Yuichi Sugita of Japan. Nadal won the match 6-3, 6-1, 6-3. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Nick Kyrgios of Australia defeats Jordan Thompson of Australia in his first round match. Kyrgios won the match 7-6,3-6,7-6,0-6,6,6-1. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, watches Roger Federer of Switzerland defeat Lloyd Harris of South Africa in his first round match on Tuesday. Federer won the match 3-6,6-1,6-2,6-2. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Federer defeats Harris in his first round match. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Williams plays a backhand during her first round defeat. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Gauff plays a backhand as she defeats Williams in the first round match. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Gauff also became the youngest competitor since 1991 to win in the first round of the ladies' singles. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Cori "Coco" Gauff at 15 years old is the youngest player ever to qualify for Wimbledon. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Cori Gauff (L) of the U.S. defeats Venus Williams of the U.S. in the first round match at Wimbledon on Monday. Gauff defeated Williams 6-4, 6-4. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Jiri Vesely of the Czech Republic celebrates victory in his first-round match against Alexander Zverev of Germany on Monday. Vesely beat Zverev 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, 7-5. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Zverev reacts in defeat in his first round match against Vesely. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Osaka plays a backhand against Putintseva. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Putintseva plays a forehand in her match. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Naomi Osaka of Japan reacts in her first-round match against Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan on Monday. Putintseva beat Osaka 7-6, 6-2. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Fabbiano plays a forehand in his first round match against Tsitsipas. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece reacts in his first round match against Thomas Fabbiano of Italy. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Novak Djokovic of Serbia plays a forehand in his first-round match against Philip Kohlschreiber of Germany. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Kohlschreiber plays a forehand in his match against Djokovic. Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo