got. you talked about how you knew the second she walked over to that umpire, you were thinking, this is trouble. yeah, absolutely. because i knew that she had been disturbed by what she was being accused of. and then she then she was very clear, i don t cheat. i play to win. i would not cheat to lose. i would rather lose. someone who says that and someone who has 23 grand slam singles titles, who knows the tennis rules and regulations, obviously knows what that kind of violation would mean for her in the game. so i knew that it was going to be contentious. and you know her. listen, she s a tough she s a tough woman. she s probably, as we ve all you know, dropped some four-letter words in our time, and you said she was really, you know, holding back, trying to be as gracious as she could with this umpire. there s no doubt. listen, i know serena really well, and she, with you know, from time to time has dropped a few f-bombs on the court, but she was doing her best to not
finals. the chair umpire noticing serena was looking at her coach and the ref pen all her. she said she was not taking coaching tips. i didn t get coaching. you make an announcement that i didn t get coaching. i don t cheat. i didn t get coaching. how can you say that? you need to make an apology. you owe me an apology. i have never cheated in my life. i have a daughter and i do what s right for her and i ve never cheated. you owe me an apologies. she showed frustration losing that point and then shattering her racket and gets penalized for that taking a point away. later as she was nearly losing the second set the two go at it again. serena calling the umpire a thief. he flags her for verbal abuse. that sparks her to talk to an
i didn t get coaching. i didn t get coaching. you need to take you need to make an announcement that i didn t get coaching. i don t cheat. i didn t get coaching. how can you say that? you need to you need you owe me an apology. you owe me an apology. i have never cheated in my life. i have a daughter and i stand for what s right for her and i have never cheated. you owe me an apology. so this went on for quite some time and williams coach later actually admitted to coaching from the stands, adding that all coaches do it. still fuming after osaka goes on to score a break point, williams has more words for ramos, accusing the umpire from stealing a point from her. serena was watching her coach give her hand signals. verbal abuse. are you kidding me?
i don t cheat. i didn t get coaching. how could you say that? you need to you owe me an apology. i have never cheated in my life. i have a daughter and i stand for what s right with her. i have never cheated her. that comment, i have a daughter, and it shows you how quickly people change when you become a parent, your place in society, your desire to show a moral face to your child, i m not a cheater and i would never want my daughter to see this or hear about this and think maybe mommy cheated. as soon as you have children, you cross that threshold and want to start being a better person and create a better world for them. that jumped out at me. she s allowed alexis to be so much a part of her public presentation. she s in the commercials, all over her instagram. so he s proud of being a mother. and so you, carlos, are calling her a cheater, right?
everybody say afterwards, well, they both lost because of what happened, she riled that crowd up and she was very gracious afterwards, but her behavior absolutely. which could have cost osaka a match that she was clearly winning and clearly wasn t going to lose. so so much of this was self-inflicted the other day. mi mika, you re absolutely right, she wouldn t drop this. she couldn t get past it and it ended up costing her what might be her last best chance to win the u.s. open. well, mike, the thing that serena was most insulted by, that she kept repeating over and over again is i don t cheat. he wasn t coaching me. and this this was the refrain, she kept going back to it over and over. i ve got a daughter, i would never do this, i ve never cheated in my life, i ve never well, immediately afterward her coach said, yeah, i was coaching her.