Serena Williams meltdown

Gotta admit this cartoon of Serena is pretty funny.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/herald-sun-serena-williams-cartoon_us_5b9663ffe4b0511db3e460f0

Cheech wrote:

Chong wrote:

Remind you of

Bobby Kersee anyone?

Does Cheech remind you of Bobby Kersee anyone? I'm Cheech, I'm an imbecile on too many levels to count.

Coaching pro tennis player from the sidelines:):):):):):):):)...yeah sure;)[/quot.

ever see a Bobby Kersee performance at a track meet?

Don't get your panties in a knot, hun.

Sorry, I was being an a$$hole. Truthfully, intelligence is not in my wheel house. Sucks to be me.

Cheech wrote:

Cheech wrote:

Does Cheech remind you of Bobby Kersee anyone? I'm Cheech, I'm an imbecile on too many levels to count.

Coaching pro tennis player from the sidelines:):):):):):):):)...yeah sure;)[/quot.

ever see a Bobby Kersee performance at a track meet?

Don't get your panties in a knot, hun.

Sorry, I was being an a$$hole. Truthfully, intelligence is not in my wheel house. Sucks to be me.

Stop it, I'm the real a$$hole here!

Chong wrote:

Cheech wrote:

Sorry, I was being an a$$hole. Truthfully, intelligence is not in my wheel house. Sucks to be me.

Stop it, I'm the real a$$hole here!

Ok, I agree 100%. Now off you go Princess Chong, lover of the Dong!

"I did not get coaching from the box. I never did. I am not a cheater. You are attacking my character. You will never, never be on a court of mine as long as you live... Don't talk to me. You have stollen a point from me, you are a thief too."

"You are simply penalizing me because I am a woman"

It's not the cheating that gets to me. Getting sideline coaching is not a big deal in tennis (minor infraction - everyone does it). It's lying about it (again and again) and attacking his character (after telling him not to talk to her). Then playing victim. #stopthebullying

https://youtu.be/rvX9Xca50oQ

I love Serena williams. She has been amazing to watch over her career. The tragedy here is how the Democratic party has hijacked the African American race. If we keep telling them they are victims, they will believe it. We will be their savior against old white conservatives. We will retain their vote. So far, it seems to work. It is sad.

Male Nick Kyrgios: is losing, so gets a nice "pep talk" from the chair umpire and gets his form back?

Why didn't Serena get that?

Sexism, the obvious answer.

Yeah, agreed. The first code violation was ticky tack but it's the rule and a call the umpire was within his rights to make. That's her coach's fault and every player who gets called for a coaching violation disagrees with the call. I'm pretty sure racquet abuse is an AUTOMATIC code violation. That's clear-cut and so far everything was normal course of business.

Serena's frustration down a set and a break makes sense but she had to know where she stood if she referenced the earlier point penalty to the umpire when she REPEATEDLY kept going after the umpire. You can't even argue with the second code violation.

Could the umpire warned her that she was close to another code violation? Sure, but he shouldn't have to. Had she gotten her frustration out once and let it go it would have been fine. The problem was Serena wouldn't let it go and kept badgering the umpire. More than anything she said, going back for more is what caused the umpire to lose patience. Down a set and break, and two code violations is a terrible time to keep going.

What gets lost in all this is that it's simultaneously possible to be one of the best players ever and have an unsportsmanlike moment at the same time. Had she apologized for losing it in the heat of the moment we would have forgotten about this already. Doubling down on the "it's not fair and I did nothing wrong" isn't a good look. She had a role in all of this.

The high school tennis equivalent of what Serena did is the kid who blows up and goes over the top after his opponent makes a correct but late line call.

Serena's pride is preventing her from get treated for Postpartum Depression, saw

the exact same thing with Serena at Wimbledon, she needs to get treated.

When she goes ghetto, breaking rackets, can't be doing that.

Coaching from the side lines in pro Tennis is a big problem.

Just get out there and play the game.

Consequently, the headphone/mics that are used in professional European

stage bicycle racing, kind of f___d everything up. A Hinualt or Merckx didn't need

to be coached -- it was sheer talent.

The coaching rule is virtually never enforced. Never. I have seen matches in which the player gazes over at the coaches' box after every single point, which means dozens of times per match, and the "violation" is never called. Carlos Ramos' calls, in a Grand Slam final of all things, were extremely extremely arbitrary.

Is Not Weird wrote:

The coaching rule is virtually never enforced. Never. I have seen matches in which the player gazes over at the coaches' box after every single point, which means dozens of times per match, and the "violation" is never called. Carlos Ramos' calls, in a Grand Slam final of all things, were extremely extremely arbitrary.

Didn't Serena's coach actually admit to coaching?

Slamming your racquet is an automatic penalty,

Abusing the umpire should have been an instant DQ.

hearherroar wrote:

and I’m here fighting for women’s rights and for women’s equality …

OK. So why is she not campaigning for the tennis tournaments to scrap gender divisions and have all the players in one tournament? Only when that happens can she say that women tennis players will be being treated equal to men tennis players.

Precious Roy wrote:

Serena has a long history of throwing fits when she is getting beat in big matches. And when she gets beat solidly, she gives sulking press conferences where she cannot say the slightest kind word or show any sort of respect for her opponent. Pro tennis has been trying hard for years to work on sportsmanship and to fight the meat grinder/competitive burnout that was common from the days of Tracy Austin through Jennifer Capriati. You cannot have a healthy competitive environment in the juniors when the pros are smashing rackets and throwing tantrums whenever they have a bad match.

Well described. That has been Serena's tendency dating to the rivalry with Justine Henin more than a decade ago. Henin kept knocking Serena out of grand slams and Serena showed no class at all. She repeatedly said she just handed Henin the match instead of Henin actually winning it.

There was one disputed service point that contributed to the bad blood. Serena thought she deserved another serve but the umpire gave the point to Henin. Long story. Anyone interested can look it up.

But it was at that point I began to dislike Serena. That was one video clip of her mouthing the word "b*tch" at Henin while Henin was preparing to serve.

The tour protects Serena's imagine beyond deserved right now, because there simply isn't much depth atop the rankings. Good depth overall but not at the top. If we were in an era with let's say Graf, Seles and Hingis battling for top honors along with Serena, then the tour would be content to allow Serena to play the villain role. Instead she is the meal ticket so the USTA has a tendency to remove the tantrum videos from YouTube whenever they can, and lots of apologists come forward whenever Serena has another implosion.

UltraDude wrote:

Gotta admit this cartoon of Serena is pretty funny.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/herald-sun-serena-williams-cartoon_us_5b9663ffe4b0511db3e460f0

why is Osaka a blonde, white woman?

The Chair Umpire was the problem, not Serena. She was treated like trash.

Costco Hotdogs are great wrote:

The Chair Umpire was the problem, not Serena. She was treated like trash.

...which she is

good wrote:

Costco Hotdogs are great wrote:

The Chair Umpire was the problem, not Serena. She was treated like trash.

...which she is

This is the correct answer

I'm so annoyed that her behavior/the ump's calls are getting all of the attention when Osaka legitimately blew her out of the water and won. If Serena hadn't been called out on getting coached none of this would've happened and she still would've gotten her a$$ beat. Guess winning the Grand Slam isn't as important as your opponent's temper tantrum.

Livstrong7 wrote:

There are no facts in a case like this. There are only battle lines, drawn over gender and even race. Those are the lines drawn by the Serena apologists. But darn those facts - they just won't go away behind all that waffle that is empty opinion.

This thread is a perfect illustration of 'the' generational difference and I mean all generations up to this post-modern generation where the youngsters have been taught to immediately leave the facts of the argument and head straight for accusations of personal bias in those with whom they disagree.

The academy has done you folks a bad turn because you will have to think and solve problems in the real, working world.

You won't simply be able to dismiss everyone who has a different point of view as racist or sexist when there is money on the line in your industry or profession.

Well, at least you might get debt forgiveness when Elizabeth Warren enters her 3rd term as president.