Serena Williams.
I used to admire her until I realised what a rude, unprofessional, disrespectful, entitled, arrogant, foul mouthed bully she is.
8th September, 2018. Women's US Open final. Serena Williams vs. Naomi Osaka.
Serena received a code violation by Carlos Ramos, the umpire, for coaching in the second set. Following this, Serena went off on one and said to Ramos:
“This is unbelievable! Every time I play here I have problems … make an announcement that I didn't get coaching! You owe me an apology! I have never cheated in my life! I have a daughter and I stand for what is right for her … you will never do another one of my matches!”
After her second code violation for racket abuse, she began getting lary again and said to Ramos:
“You will never, ever, ever be on another court of mine as long as you live!”
Did she leave it at that? Nah, course not. Serena then called Ramos a “thief” as well as a “liar” and accused him of stealing a point from her. Ramos responded by giving her another code violation for verbal abuse which now meant that the game was awarded by default to Osaka, who then went on to win the set 6-3 and the match.
After three strikes you would've thought that she would've learned her lesson. Even a hamster learns its lesson after getting electrocuted three times, but nah … she decided to go one better and play the woman card in her post-match interview in which she said:
“Do you know how many other men that do things much worse than that? This is not fair. There’s a lot of men that have said a lot of things but because they are men it doesn’t happen to them. I’ve seen men … I’ve seen other men call other umpires several things … For me to say ‘thief’, and for him to take a game, it made me feel like it was a sexist remark. He’s never taken a game from a man because they said ‘thief’.”
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Of course, feminists in the mainstream media bought into her horse shit but shock horror, the facts didn't support their fatuous cries of “sexism”, “misogyny”, “the patriarchy” or “toxic masculinity”. Her sexism claim is bollocks because in the past, Ramos has penalised Andy Murray for verbal abuse at the Rio 2016 Olympics, Rafael Nadal for time wasting twice at the 2017 French Open and Novak Djoković for racket abuse at Wimbledon 2017.
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Secondly, men received almost two-thirds of the code violations in the Grand Slams of 2018. Plus, in the US Open of that year, men were fined 0.034 times per set but on the other hand women were fined 0.037 times per set, very identical rates.
Thirdly, in the Grand Slams from 1998 to 2018, men received 1,517 fines in total in contrast to the 535 fines that women received.
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So, she was talking absolute rubbish. Nonetheless, her bullshit outburst wasn't the first time she overstepped the mark.
In the 2011 US Open final against Samantha Stosur, Williams said to the umpire, Eva Asderaki, after being penalised for intentional verbal hindrance during play:
“If you ever see me walking down the hall, look the other way … you're out of control. Totally out of control. You're a hater and you're just unattractive inside! Who would do such a thing? Wow! What a loser! Don’t even look at me, I promise you! Don’t look my way!”
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Two years prior to that at the 2009 US Open semi-final against Kim Clijsters, Serena said to the line judge after being called for a foot fault:
“I'm going to take this fucking ball and shove it down your fucking throat! You hear me?”
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Finally, after losing in the 2004 US Open quarter-final against Jennifer Capriati, Williams made these remarks about Marianas Alves, the umpire, in her post-match interview:
“I'm extremely angry and bitter. I feel cheated, robbed. I guess the lady didn't want me to be in the tournament any more. I'd prefer it if she did not umpire my courts any more, because she's obviously anti-Serena.”
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There's one thing that all of these incidents have in common and that was that she was losing.
Whenever her back was against the wall and whenever a decision went against her, she would throw a massive temper tantrum and try intimidating the officials. It's an absolute joke.
Being a great player doesn't mean that you're above the law and the sport. Do you remember Steffi Graff, Pete Sampras, Roger Federer or Rafael Nadal act in such a manner? No, of course you don't. Even with all their faults, these lot had class.
The incident last year for me was the straw that broke the camel's back and since then I've rooted against her in every final that she's played.
Long story short, she's a disgrace and a sore loser.
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