Then there’s Martina’s take: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/10/opinion/martina-navratilova-serena-williams-us-open.html “Just because the guys might be able to get away with it doesn’t mean it’s acceptable.”
sgafetah28
sgafetah28
If the official wanted to take on Serena, why did he wait until the second set to do it?
Most refs don’t make this call. But this ref DOES consistently do so. And he has taken on many men in similar circumstances. You can search for his interactions with Djokovic.
The umpire was a dick, but he’s a pretty consistent dick (to the great men’s players as well), and Serena came back to yell at him about the same issue 3 separate times before calling out the tournament umpire and WTA ref. What was she hoping to gain? If a basketball or football player went off on a ref because of an…
King saw a woman realizing how unfairly she was being treated in comparison to her male colleagues and then refusing to accept that treatment
Welcome to the disease there is no cure for.
He’s trying to stop the slam dunking of fetus’s into garbage cans.
The official stenographer earned her or his money today.
He clearly says "we're selling the cell phone".
If you listen, he clearly says he’s auctioning her phone off.
That was gonna be same point I was about to make.
At the grand slams—Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, and U.S. Open—men play best-of-five set matches, and these matches are often too long, because they don’t play a tie-break in the fifth set (except for the US Open).
It’s not a protest if you’re holding a goddamn selfie stick. It’s a performance piece.
men and women should both play best of 5 in the majors. keep and expand the 5th set tie break if you want.
Women should play best of five sets. Best of three has never and will never be a good way to prove who the best is.
Yeah, nearly everyone is a best of 5 advocate.
Counterpoint: Ben Rothenberg sucks.
You fail to mention Federer and a slew of others are advocates of 5-set matches.
She is obligated to not contribute to sexploitation of other women. Lily Allen is yet another female enabler/predator and more will come to light. I’m looking at you Mia Farrow.