Posted on 09/08/2018 8:41:44 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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https://www.usta.com/content/dam/usta/pdfs/2018NationalRegulations_10_18_2017.pdf
Good for you! Tell’em like it is.
Professional sports still have provision for sportsmanship.
It’s more than just the mechanics of the score.
Part of being a singles’ champion is being able to compete on your own, without excuses.
FWIW, one of the rules of the USTA is to not allow discrimination. Lots of players use that rule as a crutch, claiming their inability to win a point is based upon somebody discriminating against them, allowing them to win a point or game by the opponent being forced out.
Serena is just using another crutch as an excuse to not win by her own merits.
cool the player off. correct her stance or grip. tell her to up tempo or down tempo. There are plenty of things a coach can signals. Then she threatened the judge, This was her second infraction thus the loss of a point.
In professional golf, your caddy is the only person allowed to coach.
It sounds like your understanding of professional sports is limited to watching them so you shouldn’t be arguing so strenuously until you understand the rules.
Serena manifests arrogance and the degenerate nature of arrogance on volition. When she couldn’t win, she demanded the officials not return to her court, when it wasn’t her court to demand anything from the legitimate authority present.
She manifests a body with a scarred soul, simply good for nothingness.
Thank you.
We can use people like Serena joining people like Candace Owens and others. She’snot a bad person at all. She’s also a superstar.
But Naomi deserves the win and Serena should congratulate her if she hasn’t already.
IMHO, the USTA needs to lawyer up and suspend her from future play. Make an example of poor sportsmanship, before it takes down the entire sport.
I am a long time follower of tennis. I go way back. I haven’t followed it in years, decades even. This story piqued my interest so I found the videos, watched them, then did some research and found a load of
C H I C K E N S H * T.
Now, why do I characterize it as chickensh*t? Because I remember John McEnroe going ballistic about some referee calls and not getting point penalized for it. He broke rackets left and right. But the calls were about whether balls were on the line or a quarter inch out. That’s exactly what referees are for. We can have heated arguments about such calls but I would never question whether a referee had a role to play in making such calls.
I did some more watching and more research.
Naomi was the clear winner. She deserves congratulations. But this referee was an a-hole who was pulling a rule out of context and shoving it at Serena, then calling her a cheater which set her off. Serena was controlled enough not to break this punk’s balls on the court. I likely wouldn’t have been able to show such restraint.
This guy should NOT be a referee. The best he can do is tend bar.
The crowd agreed with me, they were incensed by this a-hole referee. By acting up, he took away and deflected the clear respect that Naomi deserved for an incredible win by creating an unnecessary drama on the court. He is the one that started it. Serena, unfortunately, was triggered but it was the a-hole ref that started it by pulling a rule out of his butt to hang her with. Serena would have lost regardless because Naomi was better that day. But neither Naomi nor Serena deserved this a-hole in the chair. Serena said he will never appear on a court with her again and I back her on that.
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no coaching from the stands. Her coach admitted he was. She lied and said he wasn’t. One side with a coach and one side without a coach is not a fair match. So, no coaching.
6-2, 6-4,...uhmmm...you lost...
she was ‘fighting for women’s rights?!” well, another woman was fighting for ‘women’s rights’ too - the right to beat her, fair and square, woman to woman. She lost 2 of 3 so the 3rd wouldn’t have mattered anyway. Serena can try again next year, if they invite her, and all will be well again. Sometimes people don’t think that far ahead in their disappointment.
The no coaching rule encourages more sportsmanship and wherewithal from the players.
There are lots of tips a 3rd party observing the plays can give the players to ‘game the game’.
By disallowing the coaching, it forces the player to stand on their own, under stress, and compete as a sportsman, more than an athlete.
There used to be a lot of class and dignity in tennis. Some folks just strip it away.
“””She’snot a bad person at all.””
You know nothing about her and her history in the tennis world.
Make room for transgender participation.
Anyone remember the Budweiser women’s pool team commercials?
Threatening the umpire....imagine if a star baseball player told an umpire they would never be allowed on the baseball player’s home field again...that would be fun to watch!
She is yet another leftist, entitled, horrible person.
JoMa
Good thing we don’t care about sports.
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