unpretty:angiekerber: Serena Williams comforting Naomi Osaka when the crowd started booing during th
unpretty:angiekerber: Serena Williams comforting Naomi Osaka when the crowd started booing during the trophy ceremony editing my reblog to add some context bc not everyone knows: the umpire hit Serena with bullshit penalties, so the audience was pretty pissed at the U.S. Open officials and booed them accordingly, but Serena saw how upsetting the whole situation was for Naomi Osaka, and took the mic to congratulate her and encourage the audience to support herFor many, the joy for Osaka’s hard-won victory was soured by the way Williams was treated during the match. During the second set, the chair umpire, Carlos Ramos, gave Williams a game penalty after he said that she had accrued three violations: receiving coaching, smashing a racket in frustration, and then verbally abusing the umpire after the initial penalties.Williams refuted two of the three penalties, growing angry at the notion that the umpire thought she was cheating by receiving advice from her coach. “I don’t cheat to win, I’d rather lose,” she said. As she tried to defend herself against the umpire’s call of verbal abuse minutes later, after she called him a “thief,” she was heard saying: “There are a lot of men out here who have said a lot of things and do not get that punishment. Because I am a woman you are going to take this away from me? That is not right.”source -- source link
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