Tennis Discussion Thread

Naomi Osaka has won the US Open defeating Serena Williams 6-2, 6-4 but Serena will be the 1 getting all the headlines due to her heated comments towards the umpire who penalised her a point for coaching a point for smashing her racket then gave her a game penalty which lead to Serena calling Carlos Ramos a thief

Feel sorry for Osaka.
Almost feels like she couldn't celebrate the moment due to all the fuss surrounding Serena.

I think Serena Williams' behaviour in that final was a disgrace. Naomi Osaka was clearly trying to remain as humble as possible amidst the chaos that was escalating around her. The headlines will all be about Serena's madness and that's wrong.

Carlos Ramos for me acted absolutely in the correct way and followed the rules to the letter. I feel her behaviour left him with no choice. The fact is that Serena has had outbursts like this before, and in the US Open final before. I get the passion for the game, but she goes about it in the wrong way.

Anyway congratulations to Osaka, she really did play an excellent game. I suspect the first of many grand slam titles. A bold statement, granted, but this girl has so much talent. Plenty of competition on the women's tour and it's great to see.

(08-09-2018 22:53 )Regenerated Wrote:  Carlos Ramos for me acted absolutely in the correct way and followed the rules to the letter. I feel her behaviour left him with no choice. The fact is that Serena has had outbursts like this before, and in the US Open final before.

Yes I seem to remember something similar happening against Kim Clijsters some years ago in the US Open final. In this match against Osaka I don't think the hopelessly biased spectators covered themselves in glory either .

^ The crowd were horrible during the presentation. But they were in that mode because, in my opinion, of Serena's behaviour. She whipped them in to a frenzy. I'm not saying she meant to do that to Osaka, of course she didn't. But as you say, they didn't help. Fair play to her afterwards for putting an arm around her and attempting to calm the storm, but the damage was already done.

It's sad now that this will run and run in the media about her outbursts, when all the focus should be on the champion.

In 2011 as well against Stosur the umpire called hinderance and penalised her a point which lead to Stosur breaking serve leading Serena to say "Are you the same umpire who screwed me the last time?" in reference to Cijsterr incident where she said to a line judge who called her for a foot fault "If I could I would ram this ball down your throat? and then when line judge told Umpire Serena tried to garner sympathy saying "I didn't say I would kiill you are you kidding me?"

(08-09-2018 23:09 )snookered Wrote:  

(08-09-2018 22:53 )Regenerated Wrote:  Carlos Ramos for me acted absolutely in the correct way and followed the rules to the letter. I feel her behaviour left him with no choice. The fact is that Serena has had outbursts like this before, and in the US Open final before.

Yes I seem to remember something similar happening against Kim Clijsters some years ago in the US Open final. In this match against Osaka I don't think the hopelessly biased spectators covered themselves in glory either .

I was expecting to be grumbling that Serena had achieved her record with an unimpressive result.

I still expect she will get (and probably then beat) the record, at which point I will be grumbling

But all credit to Naomi Osaka, you really don't get all the way to the final by flukes, and it shows the breadth in women's tennis that there are so many title-capable competitors, rather than just a boring procession

Djokovic did beat del Potro, to equal Sampras' total of Grand Slams.

(08-09-2018 22:53 )Regenerated Wrote:  I think Serena Williams' behaviour in that final was a disgrace. Naomi Osaka was clearly trying to remain as humble as possible amidst the chaos that was escalating around her. The headlines will all be about Serena's madness and that's wrong.

Carlos Ramos for me acted absolutely in the correct way and followed the rules to the letter. I feel her behaviour left him with no choice. The fact is that Serena has had outbursts like this before, and in the US Open final before. I get the passion for the game, but she goes about it in the wrong way.

Anyway congratulations to Osaka, she really did play an excellent game. I suspect the first of many grand slam titles. A bold statement, granted, but this girl has so much talent. Plenty of competition on the women's tour and it's great to see.

Agree, Serena was such a sore loser, she broke the rules THREE TIMES!! & got caught each time and got punished correctly. So played the sexism card to try & distract that she broke the rules & lost a match she was expected to win.

Not the first time she’s thrown a strop at an official

Had she been a man she would have been defaulted for a 3rd court violation, women get defaulted on their 4th.