And this is how she wants to garner respect?!
Posted on 07/10/2019 5:00:27 AM PDT by vespa300
"I felt defeated and disrespected by a sport that I love—one that I had dedicated my life to and that my family truly changed, not because we were welcomed, but because we wouldn’t stop winning."
(Excerpt) Read more at harpersbazaar.com ...
Yeah - coz John McEnroe never got kicked out of a game.
Good grief...disrespected? Really?
Pffft !! ...
Serena, it’s a game. Get over it.
So she and Harper's is hoping to get everyone to see it differently through a propaganda article and a "glamor" shoot.
Right. Anyone else would have been banned from the sport after her unsportsmanlike antics.
I read the article....yep, she was angry, but no longer....but I didn’t get classless or especially racist...
Keep in mind, conclusions only from this article.....
From the pic’s, she is a beast of a woman...
I wouldn't mind living that kind of victimhood.And I'd wager that 99% of this country's blacks wouldn't mind it either,
This piece is a very long combination of self aggrandization and pathetic whining.
If there is a dispute with officials in tennis (or any other professional sports) there are procedures to follow in making your case.
This individual believes herself to be above the rules in place (for the commoners of course)and thinks she is exempt from the rules of conduct.
I strongly commend the field judge for the follow up penalties he assessed due to the unseemly spoiled brat behavior of this now over the hill player.
Think of being spit on and called baby killer and other things that happened to Viet Nam Veterans. What a wimp.
I’m a member of the USTA, have been playing tennis for 45 years, play every day. I have followed Serena for years. Bitter and classless when she loses. It’s been her behavior her entire career. Everyone knows it. And insiders know the girls on the tour have never been big fans of hers. Racist to the core, angry at white people, chip on her shoulders. Probably because of the way she looks.
We aren’t stupid. Arthur Ashe? Now he loved the game and was class and grace through and through.
Glamor and Serena do not meet. I watched some of her match yesterday.... Simply put, she is FAT. If an opponent can make her run, she will tire and lose. Her method is to simply overpower opponents. We'll see if that works for two more matches. Tempermentally, she is a spoiled child.
Serena, you were defeated by a younger better player.
“because we wouldn’t stop winning”
I remember well, each time she did happen to lose, she was petulant and gave no credit to her opponent. It was always, “I played a terrible match”. Classless, is right.
It’s a professional sport
It has no meaning except as entertainment
Follow the rules, be professional
Make money
Stick a fork in her, she’s done
And this is how she wants to garner respect?!
They wouldn’t do this to her at the Nigerian Open.
I remember their father, Richard Williams, being openly racist and hostile from the start. He turned me off having any interest in either of them.
There’s monumentally stupid...and then there’s THAT.
Good gad, what the HECK was she thinking?!
What does or does not constitute prohibited coaching is a judgement call for the Chair. The Chair ruled against her, and she could not handle it.
Dealing with adversity is part of the game. That part of the game broke down for her that day.
Serena sought psychological counseling for this episode. She apologized to Naomi Osaka, which finally gave her peace, but not to the referee who she publicly humiliated on a personal and professional level. (One has to ask if it is a racial thing, since Osaka is black/Asian and the referee is white)
Won’t hear this one in the liberal media, whatever the case, she needs to get her money back from the doctor because just recently, at Wimbledon, during a PRACTICE round, it seems she damaged a court with a racket and was fined $10,000.00 for unsportsmanlike conduct, pocket change for a player who is “disrespected and defeated not to mention receiving poor post natal care because she was black. Interesting because in 2016 at Wimbledon she was fined the same amount for damaging a court during a second round match. Let’s not forget her 2009 US Open when she was going to kill/shove a ball down a linespersons M’fing throat.
Looks like the roid rage might be back.
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