Serena Williams Still Denies She Was Being Coached In a Pretty Awkward Interview Weeks After The Dramatic US Open Final
Weeks after the very controversial Women’s US Open Final, Serena Williams is still denying she received any coaching or has received coaching in the past in grand slam tournaments. STILL! Her coach has adamantly said he was coaching her and that everyone does it on almost every point of every grand slam match. It would appear someone is lying in this situation, and I’m going to say it’s not her coach. Serena has built up this image of her being a mother and how she needs to be a role model and all that which is fantastic. I fully support that, but to still be in denial that she was definitely in the wrong for what happened against Naomi Osaka is insane. She’s just so far deep in this that she can’t stop now.
What even was that interview? When the reporter asks if she regretted slamming down her racquet Serena’s publicist had to jump in and say no more questions about the event. What? I mean people want to hear about the US Open, what do you mean no more questions? It was a perfectly normal question, just answer yes and say you felt horrible about taking the moment away from Osaka, simple as that. What is so fucking hard about that? Take this moment in the interview to reflect back and apologize. She had you beat and you let your frustrations get the best of you. Your coach may have been trying to coach you and that’s against the rules. It’s a dumb rule, but you broke it nonetheless, whether you took his advice or not. Was the umpire in the wrong for taking a full game away? Of course, but refs make bad calls in sports all the time. It wasn’t sexist or racist, it was just a bad call. She dropped the sexism card in a place it had no spot being used. The fact that Serena can’t admit any of this weeks later is bananas. In an interview with CNN a few top women in the sport spoke up and disagreed with Serena’s thoughts.
World Number 1 Simona Halep “The rules are the rules,” Halep, this year’s French Open winner, told CNN Sport in an interview in Wuhan, China. “I don’t see any difference between the men’s rules and women’s rules, and I think the chair umpires are doing just their jobs.”
World Number 5 Petra Kvitova “Sometimes, when you get the violation, it is just a violation, and it is nothing, at the end of the day,” said the fifth-ranked Czech. “I got so many violations when I was a kid, I got a coaching violation as well, but it’s OK. “You get it, and you can’t do anything with it, and sometimes it’s tough, but you can’t get interrupted by that.””I think umpires treat women and men the same way, from my own experience.
French Number 1 Caroline Garcia “I think if a player got angry and reacted like she did in the final, they would get the same penalty, I am pretty sure.”
#TeamOsaka