Heck, I’m only an on and off tennis player/watcher and I knew that.
Does nobody remember John McEnroe?.................
Ilie Nastase v. John McEnroe
Australian open
Sure do remember that spoiled toddler McEnroe. Back then, no one played the race card nor the genderness card. In fact, no one stayed in the sport long who lacked basic civility. The problem in my mind was women from Soviet bloc countries pumped with testosterone and getting away with it. Not mentioning anyone in particular.
McEnroe, Nastasse, all of them received many many penalties, loss of points and defaults through the years. In fact, Nastasse was just recently banned from Davis Cup because of his sexist remarks. Be assured of a male player called a chair a liar and thief, they would have received the same treatment. Maria Sharapova, Richard Gasquet and many others have been banned for for PEDs, (as we will soon find out only after her retirement, that Serena uses). In the meantime she is being protected by Nike and mostly Katrina Adams, the first black (and lesbian) President of the USTA whose stated goal was to bring diversity to tennis, which she has done to the detriment and discrimination of white players. Katrina needs to be forced to resign for her outrageous statements at the US open, in protection of Williams, her diversity Queen of Queens.