As Serena Williams faced the media in the bowels of Arthur Ashe Stadium on Saturday night, every point she attempted to drive home made c...
As Serena Williams faced the media in the bowels of Arthur Ashe Stadium on Saturday night, every point she attempted to drive home made complete sense.
- It was unfair for the chair umpire to take away a point, and then a game, toward the end of her eventual loss to 2018 US Open champion Naomi Osaka.
- Men have long gotten away with abusing chair and line umpires in tennis.
- She has been an advocate for securing equal rights for female players on tour, and what happened to her during Saturday’s final might eventually change the way female tennis players are treated.
It’s easy to agree with the postmatch message.
But it was also difficult to embrace the way that message was delivered during the course of her two-set defeat to Osaka, the emerging star of Haitian and Japanese descent who won her first Grand Slam title.
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