Serena Williams Losing The US Open Is Not Racism [VIDEO]

Serena Williams Losing The US Open Is Not Racism [VIDEO]

Serena Williams Losing The US Open Is Not Racism [VIDEO]

Serena Williams has been at the top of women’s tennis for a long time. She and her sister Venus have dominated the women’s side of the sport, but today, she lost the US Open to Naomi Osaka of Japan. And because she lost, everything about tennis is now racist.

No, seriously. Serena was penalized during the match for multiple reasons, which caused her to complain during the match. First, her coach was called out for trying to signal her from the stands – which is not allowed in a Grand Slam match.

Williams objected right away, saying she would “rather lose” than cheat. After the match, in an interview with ESPN, Williams’ coach, Patrick Mouratoglou, acknowledged that he had tried to signal Williams but said he didn’t think she had seen him — and added that he thinks every player gets coaching during matches.

“Well, I mean, I’m honest, I was coaching. I mean, I don’t think she looked at me, so that’s why she didn’t even think I was. I was like 100 percent of the coaches on 100 percent of the matches, so we have to stop this hypocrite thing,” Mouratoglou said. “Sasha was coaching every point too. This chair umpire was the chair umpire of most of the finals of Rafa, and Tony’s coaching every single point, and they never gave a warning. I don’t really get it. It’s strange.”

Mouratoglou added that he had never been called for a coaching violation: “Not once in my life, and you can check the records, you’ll see.”

So, her coach admitted that he got caught. But the game continued.

Briefly, Williams appeared to be working her way back into the match, breaking Osaka for the only time to go up 3-1 in the second set. But Williams played a poor game right after that to get broken immediately, and she smashed her racket on the court, destroying it. That drew a second code violation — and automatically cost Williams a point. When she realized that the next game had started with Osaka ahead 15-love, Williams told Ramos he should have retracted the initial warning for coaching.

“I have never cheated in my life!” Williams said. “You owe me an apology.”

She resumed arguing with Ramos later, saying, “You stole a point from me. You’re a thief, too.”

He responded by issuing a third code violation, which results in a lost game. That made it 5-3 for Osaka.

Ramos called both players over to explain his ruling, and Williams began laughing, saying: “Are you kidding me?” She asked to speak to tournament referee Brian Earley, who walked onto the court along with a Grand Slam supervisor. Williams told them the whole episode “is not fair” and said, “This has happened to me too many times.”

“To lose a game for saying that is not fair,” Williams said. “There’s a lot of men out here that have said a lot of things, and because they are men, that doesn’t happen.”

Soon thereafter, the match was over.

The 36-year-old champion got outplayed by a 20-year-old woman of Haitian and Japanese descent, and that did not sit well with the crowd – who started to BOO during the awards ceremony.


This was the biggest moment of Naomi Osaka’s life up to this point – she had just beaten her tennis idol – and the crowd was booing her. No wonder she started to cry – and then proceeded to APOLOGIZE to the crowd for winning!


Serena Williams awkwardly tried to cover for her, and she did tell the crowd to cheer for the winner. But it was insane that this was even happening. And you all know what happens next… It’s the patriarchy’s fault!


The umpire is racist!


Serena Williams played a game. She broke the rules. She got penalized. The better player at that Final was Naomi Osaka.


https://twitter.com/FritoPaw/status/1038551043058151425


Serena Williams has been a tennis pro and a champion long enough to know the rules. Being “Serena Williams” doesn’t mean that she gets to break the rules without getting called out on it. It’s not “the patriarchy,” and it’s not racism. Her coach admitted to the violation. She broke her racket. She kept arguing with the chair umpire. None of this is in dispute. The dispute is over the penalty – which apparently was completely within the purview of the umpire. The US Open has released its own official statement:


Serena Williams has been an incredible tennis player. Today, she got outplayed again by Naomi Osaka – who apparently defeated her back in March at the Miami Open. Her behavior on the court today was not that of someone who has been in the sport long enough to know the rules. Her behavior afterward was lukewarm at best. The fans in attendance who booed are a disgrace. Naomi Osaka is a class act.


Naomi Osaka deserved to have her moment. Instead, the crowd decided to crap all over her, and now the armchair umpires of Twitter are trying to rob her of her fair win by blaming the umpire and racism, instead of Serena Williams and her behavior, for the loss. Sports are the ultimate meritocracy. If you want to complain about fair enforcement of the rules, fine. But don’t rob the champion of her laurels because the expected winner got penalized for her behavior.

Featured image: screenshot via ESPN on YouTube

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9 Comments
  • Jim says:

    ”And because she lost, everything about tennis is now racist.”

    Don’t forget she’s a Mother too!

    As for ”A black woman being penalized in a way a white man (ie John McEnroe) never would be.”

    At the Australian Open years ago McEnroe was disqualified from the match he was playing. He was trying to be smart, but had not read the rules for the tournament. He abused a lines-woman amongst other ”crimes”.

    Ms Williams has previous form for abusive behaviour and clearly doesn’t understand that true Champions are not measured by how they win, but how they lose – hopefully with more grace than she demonstrated. If I was a professional [male] umpire I would avoid umpiring women’s matches in the future and let the Sisters sort it out.

  • Red Dirt Man says:

    Well, at least Ms. Williams didn’t use Climate Change or Global Warming as an excuse for losing…… So there’s that.

    The only person robbed here of anything was Ms. Osaka. Ms. Williams played a role in that.

    “Champions are not measured by how they win, but how they lose……” Very true.

  • scott says:

    Well, this is what comes from years of affirmative action, and making certain groups “protected classes”.. We’ve gotten to the point where these groups think they can do anything they want without consequence.. It’s behavior like this by black athletes (name the sport, and you can see examples of it) that encourages racism….speaking of which, there was plenty at this US Open… it was very clearly displayed by Williams, and her fans in the crowd… very sad!

  • Darleen Click says:

    Serena Williams – the Hillary Clinton of Tennis

  • Cameron says:

    dominant black women scare the mess outta you and move on

    Osaka was more dominant than Williams which is why she won.

  • Naomi Osaka: Winner.

    Serena Williams: loser. That’s a comment in her character, not her game.

  • Blondi Utronki says:

    If Serena behaves this way in public, I hate to see what she’s like at home in private. It has to be frightening. When Arthur Ashe began playing tennis, one of the first things he was taught was to never argue with the umpire. How ironic the match was being played in Arthur Ashe Stadium on the 50th anniversary of the US Open in which Arthur Ashe won.

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