Serena Williams still bitter over treatment from umpires

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NEW YORK (AFP) — Eight-time Grand Slam winner Serena Williams says the reason she doesn't have more US Open titles to her name is because the umpires and linesmen have ganged up on her in the past.

"One year I really ran into a lot of bad luck where I got the worst calls possible," said Williams who rolled to an easy 6-1, 6-4 win over Kateryna Bondarenko in her first round match at the 20.6 million dollar US Open on Tuesday.

"Honestly, I couldn't even hit a shot because I was so nervous they would call every ball out.

"That really wasn't my fault. I probably would have won that year, and I was gonna win that year. Unfortunately it didn't work out."

Williams won the US Open in 1999 and 2002 and has come close in other years. In 2004, she had an on...