Posted on 09/09/2018 1:47:07 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Patrick Mouratoglou admits he WAS 'coaching' Serena during the controversial US Open final but says he doesn't believe Williams saw him
Patrick Mouratoglou has admitted to coaching Serena Williams during the US Open final but believes she didn't see him - which is why she became so enraged at the umpire.
Williams has made headlines for coming to blows with umpire Carlos Ramos after he gave her a coaching violation in the second set.
The tennis legend, who was then docked a point after she smashed her racket, told Ramos she would rather lose than cheat.
'I'm honest, I was coaching,' Mouratoglou said after the game. 'I don't think she looked at me, so that's why she didn't even think I was.'
But Mouratoglou claims that Sascha Bajin, champion Naomi Osaka's coach, was also 'coaching every point too'.
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I don't don't know if Serena is in the wright or wrong and am hoping a FReeper here can weight in on the topic and tell what really happened.
Do know this, they trying to say she's a "Shame to the sport" and I'm like oh no no no no no that was John McEnroe way back in the day. Tennis used to be a Gentleman's game where men did not say the word "heck" on the court but McEnroe said every word in the book and then some. Serena did not start this, McEnroe did.
Not surprised he was coaching. Serena has a history of poor sportsmanship when she’s losing. If she loses, it’s because she is injured or because the umpire treated her unfairly.
Yesterday she threw a few tantrums. First she screamed over the coaching penalty, then she smashed her racquet, then had another tantrum when she received a one point penalty for smashing her racquet.
Williams was fined $17,000 for one infraction now fine her $170,000 for lying to the Umpire and bar her from competition for a while for cheating.
Big money brings big egos... and very little sportsmanship.
Serena broke three in the book violations in about twenty minutes and disrupted play for at least that long.
Our daughter was a division one high school four year varsity letter tennis player, USTA ranked junior and college scholarship recruited. In her junior HS year she made it to the Ohio State high school finals. During her semi final match she got a really bad call and reacted by screaming “cheese and rice”. The umpire automatically took a game from her, as were the rules for profanity. This game was the determining factor of her loss. She did not use profanity but the ump heard it that way, rightfully so. A tough lesson but it was the rules and it was fair.
The Butt Sister told the judge she was not getting coached.
She lied like Obama.
“...“cheese and rice”...”
I’ve never heard that clirty before (a clirty is a cleaned up dirty-—sh*t becomes shoot, damn becomes darn, etc.). But the point of your story is well taken. Tennis is supposed to be a genteel sport and not roller derby.
These were high school tennis kids, and their heroes were the pros which is one of the reasons there is certain court manners for the pros, to set examples.
Imagine a professional baseball player, throwing his bat, creating a scene and when the umpire calls him on unsportsmanlike conduct, the player then calls the ump a thief and liar. Haha, he would be off the field, in the dugout changing his clothes within seconds.
“Hit it! Hit the ball over the net! Try to put it where she isn’t!”
‘Roid rage. Obviously an ADA violation to expect her to behave properly.
That is very obviously cursing, because the only reason to say that in the first place is to try to cutely invoke the name of our Lord without actually saying it. WC Fields used to do the same thing in movies; he got away with it sometimes.
Fined yes. Of course she won $1.85 million for being a runner up from the press reports I’ve seen. Still oppressed in her own mind though.
It was hard seeing our daughter go down for a profanity charge at such a huge venue, but have to say, she deserved it. It was a play on words and you are right, it meant the same thing. If she had called the umpire a thief and liar it would have been the same outcome as it was for Serena.
Trust me, Serena went through the junior ranks and knew the rules very early on having played tennis all her life. She knew she was going to lose that match, Osaka was playing well above her, so Serena was 8ntentionally trying to change the dynamics of the stadium, thus the match and played the sexist card and “her daughter” card to get the crowd behind her. It was a spectacle.
Heard her a bit last night on TV - some blather about how she was standing up for women’s equal rights in sports and the umpire’s “sexist” comments to her - a disgusting no-class act.....
No doubts. Those PEDs will drive you apes*t after a while.
So she is a liar and a cheater.
When are you going to apologize to us for lying and cheating, and for dishonoring yourself and your opponent, and for harassing the judge, Serena?
Key words in the article are “the tennis legend.” Apparently, she has vested her entire ego in the notion, and now feels she is bigger and more important that the game, giving her the freedom to become John McEnroe. It often happens to athletes whose success overrides any sense of proportion or decency possessed by ordinary humans.
I do like the clean esthetics of a sport in which the players step onto the court alone, and are entirely on their own during the match. I'd have no problem telling coaches to sit in the cheap seats. I'd agree that huddled sideline conversations shouldn't be allowed to slow the pace of the game. (I've come to hate modern basketball, where it can take 15 minutes to play the last 15 seconds, and a half hour if it's an ACC game.) But that's an esthetic judgment. Why does it matter in tennis?
WC Fields used to do the same thing in movies
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