Controversial Umpire At The Center Of Serena Williams’ OUTBURST Receives Apology

Serena Williams lost the US Open final and blamed it on sexism. That’s what this all boils down to. You know the story. Ramos accused Williams of receiving coaching from the sidelines, and everything went downhill from there. She flipped out, accused Ramos of being a thief for “stealing” her points, broke a racquet and continued to mouth off.

“You owe me an apology!”

Serena was fired up with the official in the final set of the US Open final. pic.twitter.com/r6RSbrirnV

— ESPN (@espn) September 8, 2018

It was not a good look for her. She totally ruined the victory for her opponent, Naomi Osaka.

She later blamed Ramos’ actions on sexism.

“I’m here fighting for women’s rights and for women’s equality and for all kinds of stuff,” she said. “For me to say ‘thief,’ and for him to take a game, it made me feel like it was a sexist remark. He’s never taken a game from a man because they said ‘thief.’”

Male tennis players generally face more penalties for misbehaving.

Umpire Carlos Ramos appeared to receive an apology from one of his severest critics on Thursday – as figures emerged showing that male players are penalised far more often than women for bad behaviour.

The Portuguese official was pictured in Croatia talking with USTA President Katrina Adams, with witnesses claiming they overheard her saying sorry for the fallout over the Serena Williams sexism row in the US Open final.

Wow. So it had NOTHING to do with your gender, Serena? It had to do with your…response? Your…behavior? I am shocked, I tell you. Shocked.

According to the data, women are penalized more often in just one area– coaching violations. But across the board, men are penalized more.

Otherwise there are marked contrasts, the clearest being for racket abuse — one of Williams’ trio of offences last Saturday — which stacks up at 646 to 99. Another of her offences, the less common verbal abuse, has seen 62 violations handed out to men compared to sixteen for women.

This wasn’t a case of rampant sexism in the sport. This was a case of Serena Williams failing to behave herself. Period.

If everyone could stop acting like she’s some sort of feminist hero now, that would be great.

h/t Daily Mail