I don't don't know if Serena is in the wright or wrong and am hoping a FReeper here can weight in on the topic and tell what really happened.
Do know this, they trying to say she's a "Shame to the sport" and I'm like oh no no no no no that was John McEnroe way back in the day. Tennis used to be a Gentleman's game where men did not say the word "heck" on the court but McEnroe said every word in the book and then some. Serena did not start this, McEnroe did.
Not surprised he was coaching. Serena has a history of poor sportsmanship when she’s losing. If she loses, it’s because she is injured or because the umpire treated her unfairly.
Yesterday she threw a few tantrums. First she screamed over the coaching penalty, then she smashed her racquet, then had another tantrum when she received a one point penalty for smashing her racquet.
Williams was fined $17,000 for one infraction now fine her $170,000 for lying to the Umpire and bar her from competition for a while for cheating.
Big money brings big egos... and very little sportsmanship.
Serena broke three in the book violations in about twenty minutes and disrupted play for at least that long.
Our daughter was a division one high school four year varsity letter tennis player, USTA ranked junior and college scholarship recruited. In her junior HS year she made it to the Ohio State high school finals. During her semi final match she got a really bad call and reacted by screaming “cheese and rice”. The umpire automatically took a game from her, as were the rules for profanity. This game was the determining factor of her loss. She did not use profanity but the ump heard it that way, rightfully so. A tough lesson but it was the rules and it was fair.
The Butt Sister told the judge she was not getting coached.
She lied like Obama.
“Hit it! Hit the ball over the net! Try to put it where she isn’t!”
‘Roid rage. Obviously an ADA violation to expect her to behave properly.
Heard her a bit last night on TV - some blather about how she was standing up for women’s equal rights in sports and the umpire’s “sexist” comments to her - a disgusting no-class act.....
So she is a liar and a cheater.
When are you going to apologize to us for lying and cheating, and for dishonoring yourself and your opponent, and for harassing the judge, Serena?
I do like the clean esthetics of a sport in which the players step onto the court alone, and are entirely on their own during the match. I'd have no problem telling coaches to sit in the cheap seats. I'd agree that huddled sideline conversations shouldn't be allowed to slow the pace of the game. (I've come to hate modern basketball, where it can take 15 minutes to play the last 15 seconds, and a half hour if it's an ACC game.) But that's an esthetic judgment. Why does it matter in tennis?
‘roofs make you crazy.
Serena claimed that men who have acted in a similar manner have not be penalized as severely. If true, she may have had a bit of a point. A game loss penalty is harsh.
However, she just wouldn’t let it go, and left the official no other real option.
It's the snooty euro's trying to prove Americans are all loud obnoxious boors. In truth, too many of the crowd at this match were just that, and Serena's behavior as things went on kept up.
However, crowds' behavior at Euro (and other) soccer matches is sometimes known to devolve into full blown riots, so this is a case of the pot calling the kettle black, and then some...
Lousy Sportsmanship.
And not for the first time.
End of story.