Serena Williams accuses umpire of sexism in US Open loss By Paulina Dedaj | Fox News Facebook Twitter Flipboard Comments Print Email Serena blasts umpire after losing historic match Serena Williams was docked a game by an umpire after a series of controversial calls. After a controversial call by the U.S. Open chair umpire during Saturday's women's title match, Serena Williams asserted that tennis has different standards for men and women. Williams, 36, on Saturday suffered a swift 6-2, 6-4 loss to Naomi Osaka, who became the tournament's first female Japanese champion. It happened after Williams, a 23-time Grand Slam singles champion, appeared to be thrown off her game -- after being penalized in the second set because of three separate game violations. Williams got the first violation from umpire Carlos Ramos, who ruled that Williams received coaching earlier in the set; she told him she'd "rather lose" than cheat. ESPN ✔@espn "You owe me an apology!" Serena was fired up with the official in the final set of the US Open final. 6:13 PM - Sep 8, 2018 73.4K 26.8K people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy “I didn’t get coaching,” Williams said multiple times. “I don’t cheat! I didn’t get coaching. How can you say that? You owe me an apology. I have never cheated in my life!” She was given a second violation for smashing her racquet, and again yelled at the chair umpire who had given her the first warning. SERENA WILLIAMS BESTED BY NAOMI OSAKA IN US OPEN WOMEN'S FINAL “You are attacking my character,” she continued. “You will never ever, ever be on another court of mine as long as you live.” Her third violation came after she called the umpire a “thief,” leading to the automatic loss of a game. “You stole a point from me; you’re a thief, too,” she insisted. Serena Williams, right, talks with referee Brian Earley as chair umpire Carlos Ramos looks on during the women's final. (AP) The umpire instantly awarded a game to Osaka, citing a “verbal abuse call” against Williams. It was at this point that Williams sought out the referee and argued that the harsh call had been made because of her gender. “Do you know how many other men do things that are much worse than that? This is not fair. There’s a lot of men out here that have said a lot of things, and because they are men, that doesn’t happen to them,” she said to the referee. “There are men out here that do a lot worse but because I’m a woman, because I’m a woman you’re going to take this away from me? That is not right.” Williams stood by her performance at the post-match news conference, saying: “I’ve seen other men call other umpires several things and I’m here fighting for women’s rights and for women’s equality.” ESPN ✔@espn Serena's coach says that a penalty for coaching during play is hypocritical because every coach does it. 6:31 PM - Sep 8, 2018 4,094 1,412 people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy Later Saturday, Williams received some support in the form of tweets from tennis legend Billie Jean King. Billie Jean King ✔@BillieJeanKing (1/2) Several things went very wrong during the @usopen Women’s Finals today. Coaching on every point should be allowed in tennis. It isn’t, and as a result, a player was penalized for the actions of her coach. This should not happen. 10:20 PM - Sep 8, 2018 25K 6,961 people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy "Several things went very wrong during the @usopen Women’s Finals today," King wrote. "Coaching on every point should be allowed in tennis. It isn’t, and as a result, a player was penalized for the actions of her coach. This should not happen. Billie Jean King ✔@BillieJeanKing (2/2) When a woman is emotional, she’s “hysterical” and she’s penalized for it. When a man does the same, he’s “outspoken” & and there are no repercussions. Thank you, @serenawilliams, for calling out this double standard. More voices are needed to do the same. 10:21 PM - Sep 8, 2018 128K 38.5K people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy "When a woman is emotional, she’s “hysterical” and she’s penalized for it," King continued. "When a man does the same, he’s “outspoken” & and there are no repercussions. Thank you, @serenawilliams, for calling out this double standard. More voices are needed to do the same." Williams’ coach, Patrick Mouratoglou, later admitted to an ESPN reporter that “I was coaching.” “I’m honest, I was coaching. I mean, I don’t think she looked at me so that’s why she didn’t even think I was. But I was like 100 percent of the coaches on [sic] 100 percent of the matches.” He said that he believes that rules like this “are killing tennis.” “I have always said it. … Not to allow the players to express their feelings is stupid, I mean it’s not a big deal breaking racquets.” Williams said later at the press conference: “I don’t need to cheat to win. I’ve won enough. That’s never been something I’ve ever done, you know.”
"Things didn’t turn out how she wanted — so she had a tantrum at the umpire. How classy! No one expected Naomi Osaka to win the US Open yesterday. Everyone favoured her opponent. The crowd was solidly with Serena Williams, as were the bookies. But the 20-year-old Japanese-Haitian, who became the first player representing Japan to win a Grand Slam, prevailed against all the odds. Victory, however, was bittersweet. The crowd booed her. The announcers were in shock. ‘Perhaps it’s not the finish we were looking for today,’ said one prominent commentator, adding ‘This mama is a role model and respected by all.’ Muted kudos at best for Naomi. ‘It’s not fair,’ wailed Hillary Williams, after the umpire issued a warning when her coach was caught signalling her from the stand. Under questioning after the game, the coach admitted that he had done so but said the penalty was hypocritical: ‘Everybody does it,’ he said. After smashing her racket onto the court, another violation for which the umpire docked her a point, Serena Clinton accused the judges of stealing the match from her. ‘Apologise,’ she screamed at the umpire. ‘You are the liar. You owe me an apology.’ ‘You will never, ever, ever be on another court of mine as long as you live.’ ‘Men have said much worse without penalty,’ said the establishment’s choice after the umpire docked her a game for the verbal abuse. ‘They get away with it because they are men.’ The crowd stayed with her, as did the commentators. Writing for the Independent, Jonathan Liew contended that ‘the fundamental divide here is between those for whom this is no more than a simple issue of rule enforcement, and those for whom this is part of something much larger: of who gets to make the rules and who has to live with them, of wider injustices that originated long before Hillary ever picked up a racquet, and will endure long after she has put it down for the last time.’ The ‘sanctity of the rules,’ he said, ‘has always struck me as faintly suspicious. . . . [A]nd they’re never as objective as they look.’ Now, at the peak of her career, Serena Clinton is ‘a walking time capsule of all the big and little injustices that have pockmarked her life.’ It’s all so unfair. No one ever proved that she did anything wrong when her directed investment in cattle futures turned $1,000 into $100,000 in a little over 10 months. Maybe she was a little imprudent when she told a lineman in 2009 ‘I swear to God I’ll take the fucking ball and shove it down your fucking throat.’ But that lost her the match point. It was so unfair. Only someone insensitive to how the rules pretend to be objective but are really stacked against marginalised groups could think that otherwise. The world now awaits Hillary Williams’s book What Happened. Sure to be a bestseller, it will expose all the unfair reasons she lost, blame everyone else, and justify the immature, divisive, and appalling treatment of her opponent in the court of public opinion. The deck was stacked against Naomi Osaka. She won anyway. The real inequity was the unsportsmanlike rage that greeted her victory. Tennis used to be a game for ladies and gentlemen. The petulant behaviour of Serena Clinton and her fans and supporters shows that those days are over." https://spectator.us/2018/09/serena-williams-hillary-clinton/
It was sickening to watch the ESPN commentators trying to justify Serena's behavior. Her own coach admitted he was coaching during the match. The rule is quite clear. He violated it. Her beef was with him, not the umpire. Her point apparently was that she didn't see him, so she didn't receive any coaching. Her real point was that she is Queen Serena and a different set of rules should apply to her, kind of like the NBA applies to LeBron and a few other stars. She has been a great player but she is a horrible role model.
I knew yall wouldn't like that,a black woman should never get out of line and talk to a white man like that.If republicans had their way she would be getting 10 lashes for yesterdays behaviour.
Most sports that I watch throw players out for abusing the referee. Surprised that such an experienced player lost control like that. This was not sexism, just strict application of the rules.
Black woman playing a half-black woman at tennis while being umpired by Carlos Ramos (from lisbon, portugal) while being located in New York City=White American Republican's Fault. If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around, is it whitey's fault?