Serena Williams Fined $2,000 for U.S. Open Outburst

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  1. Your Best Friend

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    October 26, 2011: Williams retreats to panic room and calls 911 when ITF doping control officer arrives for 6am out-of-competition test. No public comment made by Williams about the incident. ITF anti-doping statistics indicate that zero out-of-competition samples were collected from Williams in 2010 and 2011. No explanation given by ITF or Williams on why no sample was collected during panic room incident.
     
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    Male tennis players aren't that buff.

    She's gotta be on something.
     
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    SERENA WILLIAMS’ MELTDOWN AND THE SJW TRANSFORMATION OF TENNIS:

    One hardly needs to note the aptness of Chelsea Clinton coming to the defense of a wretchedly bad loser. First, you assume you’ll win; then you figure you should have won; and from there it’s a small step to figuring you did win and someone — a Portuguese umpire, the Macedonian “content farmers” — stole it from you. And so sport — in which points are won according to objective measures such as balls clearing nets and falling within painted lines — is now just another outpost of the great festering grievance culture:

    No, this wasn’t just about a code violation. Rules derive, essentially, from a system, an implicit covenant that all shall be treated equally, and all shall have the same opportunities. But what happens when the covenant is broken? What happens when the system doesn’t work for you? Perhaps then, your norms diverge from mine. Perhaps neither of us has the monopoly on morality…

    Indeed. Perhaps neither of us won, or lost, or played at all. Perhaps, as I had cause to remark many years ago, your ace is just a social construct.​

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    Good stuff.
    Serena William she and coach Patrick Mouratoglou need to get on the same page.
    She says she did receive off court coaching during the women's finals at the US Open. He says she did.

    She says she got a "thumbs up" signal from coach. He says she didn't see him.

    She says she is a victim of sexism. The facts say she is not. Men are nearly three times more likely than women to be penalized at Grand Slam events.

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    That's GREAT research!
     
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    Thanks. Someone quoted similar statistics so I knew they were out there somewhere. I just had to dig around.

    It sure blows to hell the idea that men get away with stuff and the women don't. Serena Williams, Billie Jean King, Sally Jenkins and all the whiny apologists are full of crap!
     
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