Everett and then of course john mcenroe also, his brother Patrick Mcenroe talking about what happened, Billie Jean King wrote an oped for the Washington Post. It was such a sad way to end a u. S. Open where you have the greatest female player in the world playing against a woman that many people believe will be the next great player in the world, but she wasnt her accomplishments werent even recognized because of the showers of boos that came down from above. But we will talk about it it was fascinating. Coming up. It certainly was. Boy, barack obama, you know, he once said im lebron, baby. He sure looked like lebron when he was speaking. And that was like an easy layup when he said how hard can it be to criticize neo nazis . Right. Sort of puts you in the place where we are where its just surreal that donald trump has trouble even criticizing neo nazis and white supremacists. Do you know what, we have a guy who wants to be in the United States Supreme Court and we will get to this lat
it s not like we haven t seen this from her at the open before in big moments. yeah. but, eddie glaude, did the escalation perhaps happen because she has perhaps been a victim of subtle sexism or being handled differently than perhaps men on the courts, pertaining to these sort of issues that surround the game? is that possible? absolutely. i don t think any tennis woman, tennis player in the country, in the world has been subject to the kind of scrutiny that serena williams has been subjected to. let s put some context with it, mike. not only in terms of the u.s. open, you know this stuff better than i do, but we know the event with the match against jennifer caprioti and the way she was treatment, in terms of the french open with vaccines and this same judge accusing vaccines of being coached and vaccines having to tell this same judge i m 36 years old, i don t cheat. and then there s the coach, even