penalized for standing up for herself. a woman faced down sexism and the match went on. women have a right to speak out against sexism. and an ddy roddick said i have said worse and i have never gotten a game penalty. it affected both the winner and the loser. sally, first of all, that was page one and your article was so compelling. tell me why you wrote it the way you did and the placement which was so unusual? well, i can t claim to be responsible for the placement, that s above my pay grade, but i wrote it because i have never covered a match in which i saw anybody receive a one game penalty much less for something that appeared to me to be fairly minor. what she said to the chair umpire, carlos ramos, there was no profanity, it wasn t threatening or menacing in any
that really she called him a liar and a thief, didn t cuss at him, didn t do anything, in my opinion, that was overly demonstrative to make it so heshds gihe should give her a game penalty. it was over the line. for everyone who says she needs to control her emotions or show restraint, yes, she should, but so should he. i feel like it s the same at the eb end of a basketball game or football game. you got to let the football players decide. you don t want the refs or umps to be the big story in a championship game. i feel like unfortunately this is the case. meaning that you think the umpire made this about him? yeah, i think it s getting towards the end of a match possibly and he makes that critical of a decision, he knows that s going to affect the match. that s going to affect the story
officials have said that s the thing. if you went by the rule book, carlos ramos did nothing wrong. he gave her the warning. he smashed her rang r racket. she did berate him multiple times. by the rules he s allowed to give her that game penalty. according to the rule book, he didn t do anything wrong. that being said, he could have used some discretion and not given her that game penalty there. it s like if lebron is in the nba finals you re not going to give him a technical foul at the end. they always show discretion. that s where ramos went wrong in many people s minds here. thank you. cnn learning cbs chief will step down following an internal corporate battle as more and
her 24th, which would be historic, the most ever, and you ve got to step back and say, is this worth a game penalty? literally, potentially altering the outcome of a match, certainly changing the complexion of the match entirely and be a part of history basically for as long as people are talking about tennis? i think most chair umpires would have stepped back and said, you know what? i m going to let this athlete vet for a minute, and they have done that with men for generations in tennis, but no, this ump went right after serena williams, and she s correctly talking about the sexism inherent in that now. i want to ask you about that, christine, she immediately claimed men would have gotten away with calling the umpire a thief, which she did. and she pleaded her court to the referee and supervisor that men get away with far more. do you agree? i think the history of tennis shows us i ll throw out a few
receiving coaching? billie jean king, everyone. take my word for it. and then, again, in terms of language, folks just look at history. john mcenroe, jimmy connors and as james blake supported out in serena williams, he has said worse and never been penalized so why, if that is if we are saying that everyone is bad, then there should be a uniform penalty for everyone in a game, a game penalty is an extraordinary penalty, especially at that moment at that match and i again would make the case, christi, the chair umpire literally took over the match. the number one job of any chair umpire or any referee is to let the players play and as so many have said, why not give serena just a warning saying, hey, cool it, i m about to give you a game penalty if you say another word. that would have been the logical thing to do and again that is what is apparently all of the men have been saying has been done over and over again.