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  • Baron Silas GreenbackB Baron Silas Greenback

    Disgusting behavior from Williams. She deserved the last 2 violations, first could ahve gone either way, but not a travesty.
    As for sexism.. so stupid
    Men get sanctioned far more than women. This Open men have had 23 code violations, women 9

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    @baron-silas-greenback said in Tennis:

    Disgusting behavior from Williams. She deserved the last 2 violations, first could ahve gone either way, but not a travesty.
    As for sexism.. so stupid
    Men get sanctioned far more than women. This Open men have had 23 code violations, women 9

    Should have been the biggest day of Osaka’s life but that cow completely ruined it for her. Btw it is sexist according to stuff .

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/tennis/106946237/chair-umpires-sexist-power-play-ruins-powerful-us-open-womens-final

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    • jeggaJ jegga

      @baron-silas-greenback said in Tennis:

      Disgusting behavior from Williams. She deserved the last 2 violations, first could ahve gone either way, but not a travesty.
      As for sexism.. so stupid
      Men get sanctioned far more than women. This Open men have had 23 code violations, women 9

      Should have been the biggest day of Osaka’s life but that cow completely ruined it for her. Btw it is sexist according to stuff .

      https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/tennis/106946237/chair-umpires-sexist-power-play-ruins-powerful-us-open-womens-final

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      @jegga Serena said something that implied they are always out to get her...whether that was around the sexism or even toward racism?

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        Yet again Stuff proves that they'd last about a week if they put up a paywall...

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        • taniwharugbyT taniwharugby

          @jegga Serena said something that implied they are always out to get her...whether that was around the sexism or even toward racism?

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          @taniwharugby said in Tennis:

          @jegga Serena said something that implied they are always out to get her...whether that was around the sexism or even toward racism?

          And yet somehow she’s won what is it 22 opens?

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            Previously she’s been bitching about the number of drugs tests she had to take
            It’s like being a woman who’s built like a man is no reason to target her

            Oh wait she’s got a kid now, don’t they realise she would never cheat
            Truly aweful human being

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            • VirgilV Virgil

              Previously she’s been bitching about the number of drugs tests she had to take
              It’s like being a woman who’s built like a man is no reason to target her

              Oh wait she’s got a kid now, don’t they realise she would never cheat
              Truly aweful human being

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              @virgil said in Tennis:

              Previously she’s been bitching about the number of drugs tests she had to take
              It’s like being a woman who’s built like a man is no reason to target her

              Oh wait she’s got a kid now, don’t they realise she would never cheat
              Truly aweful human being

              Was it her or her sister who called the police when the drug tester turned up?

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                That has to be right up there as one of the worst sporting moments in tennis, if not any sport. What a piece of fucking work Serena is. She has a long history of this too, @MajorRage is right she just gets away with it by playing the race and sex card.

                And then saying the umpire is sexist - how fucking horrible do you have to be to do that? Knowing your rabid fucking fans will go after him despite sexism having absolutely nothing to do with this?

                The sooner she retires the better it is for Tennis. Not often you'd say that about someone with her record, but the game is far better off without players that think they are the centre of everything.

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                  It's amazing that you can abuse an appointed official by calling them a liar and then say it is sexist when you get punished for it. I'm no tennis expert so I can't speak to the coaching and racquet violations and whether they are consistently enforced. Sexism comes down to just being disrespectful to women so if you are going to throw those terms around, you should make sure you treat other people properly.

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                  • jeggaJ jegga

                    @taniwharugby said in Tennis:

                    @jegga Serena said something that implied they are always out to get her...whether that was around the sexism or even toward racism?

                    And yet somehow she’s won what is it 22 opens?

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                    Baron Silas Greenback
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                    @jegga said in Tennis:

                    @taniwharugby said in Tennis:

                    @jegga Serena said something that implied they are always out to get her...whether that was around the sexism or even toward racism?

                    And yet somehow she’s won what is it 22 opens?

                    If tennis had wanted to stunt her career, would have been easy. Bring in true equality and make women play 5 sets at grand slams... her power would have been negated.

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                    • H hydro11

                      It's amazing that you can abuse an appointed official by calling them a liar and then say it is sexist when you get punished for it. I'm no tennis expert so I can't speak to the coaching and racquet violations and whether they are consistently enforced. Sexism comes down to just being disrespectful to women so if you are going to throw those terms around, you should make sure you treat other people properly.

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                      Baron Silas Greenback
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                      @hydro11 said in Tennis:

                      It's amazing that you can abuse an appointed official by calling them a liar and then say it is sexist when you get punished for it. I'm no tennis expert so I can't speak to the coaching and racquet violations and whether they are consistently enforced. Sexism comes down to just being disrespectful to women so if you are going to throw those terms around, you should make sure you treat other people properly.

                      I can. I am a qualified Tennis referee.
                      Coaching at lower levels is always a warning. Always. At ATP and WTA tournaments, they sometimes are, sometimes not. Could go either way. In this case the coach admitted it so.....
                      Raquet breaking is always a violation, umpires don't even have discretion with it.
                      Personal abuse is more discretionary, but is usually a violation. Guys get waaay more violations, but they usually calm down after the first or second. She just kept going at it.

                      Men have lost points and games before. McEnroe even forfeited a match at a grand slam tournament,.

                      Williams is a disgrace.

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                      • DonsteppaD Donsteppa

                        Yet again Stuff proves that they'd last about a week if they put up a paywall...

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                        @donsteppa said in Tennis:

                        Yet again Stuff proves that they'd last about a week if they put up a paywall...

                        That isn't written by a Stuff reporter. It is written by Sally Jenkins, a syndicated columnist for amongst other things the Washington Post. Funny story, she wrote Lance Armstrong's autobiography. Then when the scandal broke she defended him saying " I’m confused as to why using cortisone as an anti-inflammatory in a 2,000-mile race is cheating, and I wonder why putting your own blood back into your body is the crime of the century"

                        Stuff bought the piece, as have other media outlets around the world to give a bit of balance.

                        On the other hand the article is a disgrace. Worse than anything Rattue and Reason have ever written.

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                        • Baron Silas GreenbackB Offline
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                          As for men getting easier treatment...

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                            Hasn't Williams had multiple retrospective TUEs?

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                              She doubled down on the sexist thing at the press conference.

                              So she'll be protected by her idiot enablers and go back to her ridiculously opulent life while the poor umpire will no doubt be crucified and never umpire a major game again.

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                                @rocky-rockbottom Not since the 2008 Rugby League World Cup final has there been a more embarrassing awards ceremony following the game. The US Open official basically insults the winner Osaka by saying that everyone is disappointed that Serena didn't win.

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                                  @rocky-rockbottom

                                  I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

                                  Just sprung to mind.

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                                    Salacious Crumb
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                                    With very few exceptions, all the media hot takes are standing up for Serena condemning the deplorable male ump for his rampant sexist racism and the usual atrocties. With very few exceptions, because news media is overwhelmingly staffed by biased SJW nutjobs who only care about sports insofar as they can libsplain and push their “progressive” brainwashing agenda.

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                                      While watching coverage of the press conference, and SW doubling down on her bullshit, and the fucking journos applauded her? That's fucked up

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                                      • mariner4lifeM mariner4life

                                        While watching coverage of the press conference, and SW doubling down on her bullshit, and the fucking journos applauded her? That's fucked up

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                                        Rancid Schnitzel
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                                        @mariner4life said in Tennis:

                                        While watching coverage of the press conference, and SW doubling down on her bullshit, and the fucking journos applauded her? That's fucked up

                                        That's modern journalism. Not even sport is immune anymore.

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                                        • mariner4lifeM mariner4life

                                          While watching coverage of the press conference, and SW doubling down on her bullshit, and the fucking journos applauded her? That's fucked up

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                                          antipodean
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                                          @mariner4life said in Tennis:

                                          While watching coverage of the press conference, and SW doubling down on her bullshit, and the fucking journos applauded her? That's fucked up

                                          Americans.

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