This is not the first time Serena Williams has thrown an absolute tantrum at the US Open. This time it was a real epic doozy. And it has absolutely ruined the victory for young Naomi Osaka, who idolized Williams, but perhaps not now. It put her in a horrible position and she didn't deserve that. (6-2, 6-4) Serena actually claimed she was victimized as a woman for receiving coaching, then smashed a racquet for a violation and then verbal abuse of the chair umpire. It cost her a game. It cost her the championship and it's simply a black mark, no pun, for a controversial figure to begin with. The New York crowd seemed to back Williams that's tennis and New York. Personally, it seems like just deserts to me.
I gotta say when you're right, you are right. The will to fight and win is all well and good but Williams has a history of crossing that line and blowing her stack. Tonight it bit her on her butt. Osaka kept her head. Kudos, as you say. P.S. not to over analyze this but Williams claimed she was penalized for calling the chair umpire a "thief" because she was female and that would never happen to a man. It happened to Jeff Tarango at Wimbledon when he called the chair umpire corrupt. He was defaulted. So Williams is just plain wrong.
She was really hot. She blew her cool, blew the match and the kid played like a champion. I want to see these two play again. I am sure Serena feels bad about what transpired. Her coach needs to control himself even if it means going outside and watching on tv. Also, what a stupid rule...coaches can't coach...Pretty stupid.
I normally detest Serena but I had to say her post match press conference was really well done and seemed sincere. At least in my eyes she gained in stature. As for the no coaching rule, it's sort of a real no no in pro tennis.
Its a unique feature in tennis. We expect our players to do their own thinking out there during the match. It was like in the amateur days as well. The coaching happens before the match. This is true on theprofessional tour, but not in World Team Tennis or Davis / Federation cup.
Serena and her family have been a Black mark on tennis since they entered the game........from the very first Wimbledon win for Venus when the father hoisted a ‘It’s Venus’ party and you’re not invited’ to today. The sport will be better when they are finally gone. Serena is a bully who thinks she owns the game as evidenced by her comments today. If she is losing she starts acting the idiot to get her opponent off their game.........remember a few years ago when she told a 4’8 Asian female linesman that she would ‘stuff a tennis ball down her throat’? She totally ruined Osaka’s first Grand Slam win with her antics. Adidas sponsors Osaka and she ‘just did it’. Screw Nike and Serena
this is the 'jaywalking' call of tennis. Coaching is a very common offense but it is rarely called. The irony is that Serena was all kinds of offended that anyone would think she was 'cheating' and in a post match interview her own coach admitted he was not only sending hand signals, he always sent hand signals and was never called on it either in his entire career. Then the argument is that behavior that she was penalized for, men never get penalized for.
Boy has she, and she is getting a little sick of it! http://larrybrownsports.com/tennis/serena-williams-invasive-targeted-drug-tests/451692 http://www.tennis.com/pro-game/2014/04/drug-testing-tennis-increases-not-evenly-all-players/51081/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...na-williams-wimbledon-drug-testing/749011002/ https://nypost.com/2018/06/29/serena-williams-pushes-back-in-strange-drug-testing-controversy/ https://blackamericaweb.com/2018/07...for-drug-testing-4x-more-than-other-athletes/ http://www.tmz.com/2011/11/02/serena-williams-panic-room-drug-test-urine/
Well she sure as hell is the greatest tennis player in the history of the game and her longevity is amazing.
She is certainly WAY up there if she is not. And I do think the referee may have overreached a little, compared to what men routinely get away with. The coaching rule is almost never enforced anymore and starting at the Women's final when round after round, tournament after tournament officials have turned a blind eye, was a bad call. Serena, of course was pushing her luck all match long as well. They need to do some serious thinking about what they are going to do with that coaching rule.
I actually didn't know Serena Williams has a history of dishing out abuse like that during matches. But then, I don't watch much tennis. Let me put it like this; knowing this, now, I'm glad I never, EVER, paid to watch any of her matches. Shocking behavior to call the umpire a thief and a liar, then defending(!) that language and then launch into some sort of sexism-tirade. (Which was so obviously scripted it's laughable.) She clearly planned to use that when the moment called for it. Nothing honest about it. It's what Donald Trump could call fake-anger. If Serena honestly thought this tirade was going to get her violations rescinded, than her brain has less substance than the balls she hits. This kind of behavior does not fit the world of sport. The world of politics, maybe. Up next; Serena Williams running for President. I wonder who she voted for last time... Two peas in a pod
I have mixed feelings about this. In a grand slam event and final match, the umpire should have used restraint instead of penalizing Serena a game at a crucial moment. A little more leeway. She was being soundly beaten by Osaka and the game penalty was uncalled for. Serena was out of control, no doubt, and that is a very good reason for the ref to let it pass to allow her to settle down. Serena was right about men getting away with worse. I am waiting for Trump to denigrate Serena.
The term Professional escaped Serena Williams on that day. I don't recall her as such a hot temper as that day. The battles vis a vis Jimmy Conner's and others sticks to me today but I was not seeing Serena in that mold.
I kind of defended Serena as not being a stack blower. i must not know that much about her temperament. If she is notorious, well she paid the price. By the pair of scores, it seems she got angry that she was outplayed that day.
Are you comparing her to the men tennis greats? Did you mean she is better than Chris Everett or other rather top rated women players? How does Serena stack up against the Belgian woman? Clijsters I think? Kim Clijsters Kim Antonie Lode Clijsters is a Belgian former professional tennis player. Clijsters is a former world No. 1 in both singles and doubles. Clijsters won 41 WTA singles titles and 11 WTA doubles titles. She won four Grand Slam singles titles: three at the US Open, in 2005, 2009, and 2010 and one at the Australian Open in 2011. She was also runner-up in four Grand Slam singles tournaments and won the WTA Tour Championships singles title in 2002, 2003, and 2010. In doubles, she won the French Open and Wimbledon titles in 2003. She was also runner-up in two Grand Slam doubles tournaments, one WTA Championships doubles tournament, and one Grand Slam mixed doubles tournament. In 2001, Clijsters was ...more on Wikipedia Who is the most successful female tennis player of all time? Although Serena Williams, who won her 19th Grand Slam title Saturday with a straight-set win over Maria Sharapova at the Australian Open, is arguably the most powerful women's tennis player of all time, she isn't the best. That label still has to go to Germany's Steffi Graf, who dominated the sport from 1987-1999.Jan 31, 2015
