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Anonymous wrote:Just watched the whole thing via the NYTimes and she appeared very disrespectful towards the umpire. Berating him and insulting him. Unacceptable.

That's how women are categorized when standing up for themselves... Hysterical... Men are assertive. Double standard.

There is a straight up racist a few pages back but somehow you managed to make the most annoying post in the thread

No kidding. Since when is smashing your racquet in anger “standing up for” yourself?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just watched the whole thing via the NYTimes and she appeared very disrespectful towards the umpire. Berating him and insulting him. Unacceptable.

That's how women are categorized when standing up for themselves... Hysterical... Men are assertive. Double standard.

There is a straight up racist a few pages back but somehow you managed to make the most annoying post in the thread

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Anonymous wrote:Just watched the whole thing via the NYTimes and she appeared very disrespectful towards the umpire. Berating him and insulting him. Unacceptable.

That's how women are categorized when standing up for themselves... Hysterical... Men are assertive. Double standard.

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Anonymous wrote:Just watched the whole thing via the NYTimes and she appeared very disrespectful towards the umpire. Berating him and insulting him. Unacceptable.

I wish you and many other white critics here could step back and see that this is your repressed racism coming out here. This is the same repressed racism that makes you all hate on M Markle without having any real reason. You are hyper critical and rush to condemn any potential misstep by these dynamic and successful women of color. You will hold up the rule book and exclaim “but she broke xyz rule and that is just how it goes” but I didn’t hear anyone picking up the rule book every time a man broke the same kind of rule and wasn’t checked for it. You will come up with any and every reason to diminish these women and others like them. This is why black parents have been telling their children for generations that they have to be twice as good to be considered half as good as whites. It doesn’t matter how well the assignment is complete overall, if there is a t or i left uncrossed or undotted, a white pwrson will find and run with it to prove your unworthiness. So, when you find yourself asking again and again why does Serena seem so have such a chip on her shoulder, please understand that you helped put it there by continuing to ask the question.

Rubbish. She acted abominably. End of story.

She set an atrocious example for other female athletes. You don't get to call yourself a role model and then act out like a drama queen. She should apologize to her fans, her opponent and the referee. Poor sportsmanship is the same in any color.

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Anonymous wrote:Just watched the whole thing via the NYTimes and she appeared very disrespectful towards the umpire. Berating him and insulting him. Unacceptable.

I just rewatched it and she's calm, but yes, emotional-- her voice squeaks a bit. He just looks like a smug prick trying to save face. He's like That teacher saying, ok keep going and you get a detention. Ok, 2 detentions, would you like 3? His little ego is too fragile.

I don't know if you saw the whole thing. She starts off pretty reasonable and trying to get the ump to see her point of view and then she just lost it, became distraught and on the verge of tears. She was legitimately angry and yelled at the ump.

I think she was just having an extremely frustrating game and that call simply came at a really bad time for her. She took it as a personal insult and lost her cool.

She's human, it happens. She's been playing tennis for a long time and she is a seasoned veteran of the sport. Do the umps typically make these kinds of calls on the top players? She seemed very insulted by it which is why I don't think it is a usual thing for a player at her level.

Serena has been known to let her temper get the better of her - particularly when she is losing.....

Serena Williams, who lost both her temper and her US Open semi-final against Kim Clijsters on Saturday, was last night fined $10,500 (£6,300) and faced with the possibility of suspension for her profanity-laced tirade against a lineswoman who called a foot fault against her.

Officials judged her conduct to have constituted "unsportsmanlike behaviour" and levied the maximum possible penalty. Williams, whose reward for making the semi-final was $350,000 (£209,954), was also fined an additional $500 (£300) for breaking her racket earlier in the controversial match. Suffice to say, she will not be unduly worried by the prospect of financial hardship.More troubling for her, however, is the possibility of further action.

"The grand slam rule book allows for an investigation to be conducted by the grand slam committee administrator to determine if the behaviour of Ms Williams warrants consideration as a major offence, for which additional penalties can be imposed. This investigation has now begun," the referee Brian Earley said in a statement.

Neither Williams nor Earley were prepared to reveal exactly what was said to the lineswoman but the New York tabloids, which splashed the story across the back pages yesterday morning, were not so reticent. Suffice to say, it was not exactly ladylike: "I swear to God I'll f'ing take the ball and shove it down your f'ing throat.”

Williams was far from apologetic at the time. Indeed, she continued to abuse the lineswoman after her initial tirade, becoming enraged when it appeared she was being accused of threatening her with physical harm, yelling "I did not threaten to kill you. Are you serious?"

Afterwards, she was unrepentant: "An apology from me? How many people yell at linespeople? I see it happening all the time. I don't know how many times I have seen that happen. I am a professional. I'm not the beggar, like, 'Please, please, please, let me have another chance,' because it was the rules and I play by the rules."

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2009/sep/13/serena-williams-tirade-us-open

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just watched the whole thing via the NYTimes and she appeared very disrespectful towards the umpire. Berating him and insulting him. Unacceptable.

I wish you and many other white critics here could step back and see that this is your repressed racism coming out here. This is the same repressed racism that makes you all hate on M Markle without having any real reason. You are hyper critical and rush to condemn any potential misstep by these dynamic and successful women of color. You will hold up the rule book and exclaim “but she broke xyz rule and that is just how it goes” but I didn’t hear anyone picking up the rule book every time a man broke the same kind of rule and wasn’t checked for it. You will come up with any and every reason to diminish these women and others like them. This is why black parents have been telling their children for generations that they have to be twice as good to be considered half as good as whites. It doesn’t matter how well the assignment is complete overall, if there is a t or i left uncrossed or undotted, a white pwrson will find and run with it to prove your unworthiness. So, when you find yourself asking again and again why does Serena seem so have such a chip on her shoulder, please understand that you helped put it there by continuing to ask the question.

Rubbish. She acted abominably. End of story.

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Anonymous wrote:Americans are sour losers!! ALWAYS blame on someone or something!! She lost dumb a$$.

You do realize that Osaka holds American citizenship and has lived in the US for 17 years, while only living in Japan for three years.

I get that she has chosen to play under the Japanese flag, but she is as American as anyone else who is a citizen. You can't take that away from her.

Mom is Japanese, her dad is Haitian

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just watched the whole thing via the NYTimes and she appeared very disrespectful towards the umpire. Berating him and insulting him. Unacceptable.

I just rewatched it and she's calm, but yes, emotional-- her voice squeaks a bit. He just looks like a smug prick trying to save face. He's like That teacher saying, ok keep going and you get a detention. Ok, 2 detentions, would you like 3? His little ego is too fragile.

I don't know if you saw the whole thing. She starts off pretty reasonable and trying to get the ump to see her point of view and then she just lost it, became distraught and on the verge of tears. She was legitimately angry and yelled at the ump.

I think she was just having an extremely frustrating game and that call simply came at a really bad time for her. She took it as a personal insult and lost her cool.

She's human, it happens. She's been playing tennis for a long time and she is a seasoned veteran of the sport. Do the umps typically make these kinds of calls on the top players? She seemed very insulted by it which is why I don't think it is a usual thing for a player at her level.

Serena Williams, who lost both her temper and her US Open semi-final against Kim Clijsters on Saturday, was last night fined $10,500 (£6,300) and faced with the possibility of suspension for her profanity-laced tirade against a lineswoman who called a foot fault against her.

Officials judged her conduct to have constituted "unsportsmanlike behaviour" and levied the maximum possible penalty. Williams, whose reward for making the semi-final was $350,000 (£209,954), was also fined an additional $500 (£300) for breaking her racket earlier in the controversial match. Suffice to say, she will not be unduly worried by the prospect of financial hardship.More troubling for her, however, is the possibility of further action.

"The grand slam rule book allows for an investigation to be conducted by the grand slam committee administrator to determine if the behaviour of Ms Williams warrants consideration as a major offence, for which additional penalties can be imposed. This investigation has now begun," the referee Brian Earley said in a statement.

Neither Williams nor Earley were prepared to reveal exactly what was said to the lineswoman but the New York tabloids, which splashed the story across the back pages yesterday morning, were not so reticent. Suffice to say, it was not exactly ladylike: "I swear to God I'll f'ing take the ball and shove it down your f'ing throat.”

Williams was far from apologetic at the time. Indeed, she continued to abuse the lineswoman after her initial tirade, becoming enraged when it appeared she was being accused of threatening her with physical harm, yelling "I did not threaten to kill you. Are you serious?"

Afterwards, she was unrepentant: "An apology from me? How many people yell at linespeople? I see it happening all the time. I don't know how many times I have seen that happen. I am a professional. I'm not the beggar, like, 'Please, please, please, let me have another chance,' because it was the rules and I play by the rules."

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just watched the whole thing via the NYTimes and she appeared very disrespectful towards the umpire. Berating him and insulting him. Unacceptable.

John McEnroe did that every match.

That was 40 years ago. Wouldn’t fly today.

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Anonymous wrote:Just watched the whole thing via the NYTimes and she appeared very disrespectful towards the umpire. Berating him and insulting him. Unacceptable.

I just rewatched it and she's calm, but yes, emotional-- her voice squeaks a bit. He just looks like a smug prick trying to save face. He's like That teacher saying, ok keep going and you get a detention. Ok, 2 detentions, would you like 3? His little ego is too fragile.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just watched the whole thing via the NYTimes and she appeared very disrespectful towards the umpire. Berating him and insulting him. Unacceptable.

John McEnroe did that every match.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just watched the whole thing via the NYTimes and she appeared very disrespectful towards the umpire. Berating him and insulting him. Unacceptable.

I wish you and many other white critics here could step back and see that this is your repressed racism coming out here. This is the same repressed racism that makes you all hate on M Markle without having any real reason. You are hyper critical and rush to condemn any potential misstep by these dynamic and successful women of color. You will hold up the rule book and exclaim “but she broke xyz rule and that is just how it goes” but I didn’t hear anyone picking up the rule book every time a man broke the same kind of rule and wasn’t checked for it. You will come up with any and every reason to diminish these women and others like them. This is why black parents have been telling their children for generations that they have to be twice as good to be considered half as good as whites. It doesn’t matter how well the assignment is complete overall, if there is a t or i left uncrossed or undotted, a white pwrson will find and run with it to prove your unworthiness. So, when you find yourself asking again and again why does Serena seem so have such a chip on her shoulder, please understand that you helped put it there by continuing to ask the question.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Americans are sour losers!! ALWAYS blame on someone or something!! She lost dumb a$$.

You do realize that Osaka holds American citizenship and has lived in the US for 17 years, while only living in Japan for three years.

I get that she has chosen to play under the Japanese flag, but she is as American as anyone else who is a citizen. You can't take that away from her.

Mom is Japanese, her dad is Haitian

Yes, and she uses her mom's surname. She holds dual Japanese/American citizenship, so she is just as American as any other American citizen.

She moved to the US when she was three, so she has lived in the US longer than she ever lived in Japan. She went to school in Florida.