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Memo to Richard Williams:

During the women’s final at the Indian Wells tournament, you were overheard complaining that the boos you were hearing were the result of racial prejudice. Wrong. The anger the crowd was expressing had nothing to do with the color of your skin; it was all about the content of your character.

ANN COX, Los Angeles

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I am not a Richard Williams fan. I think he’s divisive and bad for his daughters’ careers. I don’t even support everything Venus and Serena say and do. But the fact is, the one single thing that anyone in that crowd knew to be true is that Venus pulled out of the semifinal match.

Anyone who follows tennis, or any sport, knows that people get injured and cannot play. I have never seen other athletes met with such disrespect. It is insulting to the Williams sisters’ accomplishments and integrity to immediately assume that their injuries are invalid and their actions devious. That crowd acted in complete ignorance and idiocy, and I was truly embarrassed to be a member of it.

ANNA KEANEY-DULLEA, Shadow Hills

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What Venus and Serena did at Indian Wells was disgusting. Not only do they insult the tennis fans with their ridiculous actions, they disrespect every player who has come before them and made the sport what it is today. They should both be fined and suspended and their father should be banned from the sport. Maybe they should take a lesson from Chris Evert or Steffi Graf on how to be ladies on the court. They are nothing more than overgrown children trying to put one over on everyone else.

MIKE McFATRIDGE, South Pasadena

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Here’s a conspiracy theory. Why are the Williams sisters always matched in the same bracket, which inevitably forces them to play each other in semifinal matches? Talk about match fixing. Is tennis afraid no one else will win any titles?

TONY BLEDSOE, Hawthorne

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Suddenly, Jelena Dokic’s dad is looking a little less crazy.

DAN JENSEN, San Clemente