Serena is to Deadspin as Cardi B is to Jezebel

What is Osaka then? Osaka is a Japanese born person, she was playing in a different country that wasn’t her native one, Williams was pretty much at home. Osaka’s father is Haitian as well, and to anyone that doesn’t know anything about her and only saw a photo they might as well see as a mixed black person.

I mostly agree, but the reason the media asked Serena about her daughter is because Serena very specifically said “I HAVE A DAUGHTER” while yelling at the ump. She brought her daughter into it before anybody else. I think it’s entirely likely that if Tom Brady had yelled “I KISS MY SON ON THE MOUTH” after dropping…

Osaka was awesome and Serena doesn’t have that meltdown if Osaka isn’t blowing her off the court. 

>At the same time, however, it’s absolutely ridiculous to give a violation with such a heavy penalty for “abuse” as soft as that on a stage as large as the U.S. Open final.

You guys do know that you don’t have to defend EVERYTHING Serena does, right? Nobody is going to call you racist or sexist to admit that yes, she broke the rules and reacted poorly. Was this a questionable time to finally enforce the coaching rule? Yes, but it’s also an issue how many tennis players (including Serena,…

This is a bullshit statement:

Kids, growing up, line up a putt and whisper to themselves, “18th Hole, Augusta National, for a birdie...and the Masters Championship.”

I swear, Serena could kill a baby and Deadspin would somehow make Serena be the victim. It was obvious that it wasn’t a thumbs up, more like an “Move forward more” gesture (Which the coach admitted). All she had to do was continue playing, but no, she had to play the victim and resurrect 2009 all over again and make a…

Serena wrongfully gets a lot of criticism just because she’s a black woman, but her indignation after the violations is why I’ve always been lukewarm towards her as a tennis fan. After the 2nd violation she could’ve gone back to playing instead of making things worse. While selective enforcement of the no coaching…

I DEMAND YOU APOLOGIZE TO ME.

I do love, however, her tangent about how the umpire is only penalizing her because she’s a woman. How embarrassing, and gross. I’m shocked she didn’t say it’s because she’s black, but I’m assuming she bit her tongue because her opponent is half black. So maybe it should’ve just been a 1/2 point penalty, for being…

Man, this is kinda silly, Serena received the penalty for coaching (rightly so), a second for smashing the racket (par de course) and then goes to intimidate the umpire (You will never do one of my matches again) and calls him a thief, but she did nothing wrong?

I’m a Serena fan and was so embarrassed for her today. Yes, it was unfortunate the ref called the coaching violation, but it’s technically the rule. Save the “it was only a thumbs up...I have a daughter! (??)” nonsense. From there on out she decided to run her match into the ground. The ref had to give her the next…

Motherhood has really changed Serena, she only threatened this judge’s employment and not with physical violence (this time).

Everyone in every sport ever has gotten a shit call. It is human nature. Serena is so damned arrogant and honestly very stupid. Instead of just sucking it up and doing what she does best, she threw ANOTHER fit about something that was entirely her fault.

So now she is down 0-2 in the hot headed reaction race. What…

She did not take it like a champ. Serena takes the majority of the blame for this fiasco. She’s the one who ruined Naomi’s victory with her behavior.

Naomi Osaka - never meet your heroes.

Serena is a bad sport. It is what it is. You need to be almost pathologically competitive to succeed at the highest levels of sport, so it’s not that surprising. However,considering her position in her sport (and her age), it might behoove her to act like Federer,not Johnny Mac.

Naomi outplayed Serena. This has ruined the win for her. The crowd sucked.