Serena Williams has meltdown during a match

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Are the Williams "sisters" men?

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Today I will remind them:
1998: Karsten Braasch vs. the Williams sisters
Another event dubbed a "Battle of the Sexes" took place during the 1998 Australian Open[52] between Karsten Braasch and the Williams sisters. Venus and Serena Williams had claimed that they could beat any male player ranked outside the world's top 200, so Braasch, then ranked 203rd, challenged them both. Braasch was described by one journalist as "a man whose training regime centered around a pack of cigarettes and more than a couple bottles of ice cold lager".[53][52] The matches took place on court number 12 in Melbourne Park,[54] after Braasch had finished a round of golf and two shandies. He first took on Serena and after leading 5–0, beat her 6–1. Venus then walked on court and again Braasch was victorious, this time winning 6–2.[55]Braasch said afterwards, "500 and above, no chance". He added that he had played like someone ranked 600th in order to keep the game "fun".[56] Braasch said the big difference was that men can chase down shots much easier, and that men put spin on the ball that the women can't handle. The Williams sisters adjusted their claim to beating men outside the top 350.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battl...998:_Karsten_Braasch_vs._the_Williams_sisters
 
Shall forever remember the pain of maintained laughter as a result of a friends father pointing out Booker T in the stands with us having to correct him due to the individual being Serenas mother.

Elwood P. Dowd dijo:
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https://www.theroot.com/why-the-serena-williams-cartoon-is-racist-sexist-trash-1828970379

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Or an accurate depiction. If the guy called it a 'chimpout' you might have a case Micky.
 
She looks like a goddamn orc from the LOTR movies. Just replace her racket with a cleaver.
 
I know this old news but I laughed heartily when I just read this:

https://inews.co.uk/opinion/comment...klash-successful-women-sexist-racist-cartoon/

On the tube on Monday afternoon, I sat next to a couple. Both had lean bodies, blue eyes and nice tans. They were discussing Serena Williams and that row during the US Open final. The woman asked in a loud, plummy voice, “Who does she think she is?” So I butted in, informed her that she was one of the greatest, most talented tennis players in the world, winner of 39 grand slam titles, oh and a mum of a one-year-old. They looked alarmed, said nothing and moved away. OK, that was bad form. They were having a private conversation. But I felt bile rising and had to speak. (This happens too often.)

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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (née Damji; born 10 December 1949) is a British journalist and author, who describes herself as "a leftie liberal, anti-racist, feminist, Muslim, part-Pakistani". A regular columnist for the i and the London Evening Standard, she is a well-known commentator on immigration, diversity, and multiculturalism issues
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oldTireWater dijo:
People are PISSED about that cartoon.
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I'm pissed about that cartoon, too. It served as a convenient distraction from Serena and the media's abuse of the referee, as well as the wider discussion questioning celebrity cults in sports and the notion that an objective measure of strength and skill must give way when the public hungers for an uplifting narrative.
 
Safir dijo:
I'm pissed about that cartoon, too. It served as a convenient distraction from Serena and the media's abuse of the referee, as well as the wider discussion questioning celebrity cults in sports and the notion that an objective measure of strength and skill must give way when the public hungers for an uplifting narrative.
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Couldn't agree more, it has completely changed the narrative surrounding the whole incident. Now it just serves her building her victim status... I didn't watch the match live due to timezone, but as soon as I heard about it I thought: Serena is at it again...

Also slight :powerlevel: but that cartoonist works for my city's newspaper and that's just his art style, but because Serena is black... it causes a shit fight.
 
What really gets me is that Serena went on about how it was "her" court.

No it bloody isn't your court, woman, you just play on it.

I also heard that this particular umpire, Sergio Ramos, is often wheeled out for the finals of major tournaments because he is known for keeping all the big egos in check.

EDIT: That Yasmin Alibhai Brown article. She still doesn't get it. Arguably, that Serena Williams is so successful should mean it's even more important that she doesn't lose her shit on court or fling her ego around. What sort of role model is she being for impressionable young tennis players.
 
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solidus dijo:
Ver archivo adjunto 542200 Follow up cartoon for Serena.
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Kudos to your IRL screenshot, but here's a cleaner version for posterity(and meme'ing elsewhere because artists were already sick of this shit & it's a great addition to the pile). Do we have any idea who the white woman wizard is supposed to be(J.K. Rowling? Did she even make a statement?), or the guy on the right?
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EDIT: she did LMAO
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https://www.bbc.com/sport/tennis/45624387
Serena Williams: 'I don't understand coach's claims'

Serena Williams says she wants to move on from her controversial US Open final defeat by Naomi Osaka.

In the final, the American was given a code violation for coaching, incurred a point penalty for racquet smashing and was docked a game for verbal abuse.

Williams denies she was being coached from the stands, despite her coach Patrick Mouratoglou saying he was sending her signals.

"I just don't understand what he was talking about," Williams said.

Williams, who was aiming to equal Margaret Court's record of 24 Grand Slam singles titles, said she had not received any tactics from Mouratoglou, telling the umpire she would "never cheat to win and would rather lose".

Speaking to The Sunday Project on Australia's Network Ten, she added: "I asked him (Mouratoglou) 'what are you talking about you were coaching? We don't have signals, we've never had signals'.

"He said he made a motion. So I was like 'you made a motion and now you told people that you're coaching me - that doesn't make sense, why would you say that?'

"I was on the other side. I didn't see the motion. It was just a really confusing moment, I think, for him.

"What I'm trying to do most of all is to recover from that and move on."

Following the accusation of coaching, Williams was punished for racquet smashing and verbal abuse, following several outbursts that saw her call the umpire a "liar" and "thief".

Williams did not answer when questioned about whether she regretted breaking her racquet on the court.

Following the final she was fined $17,000 (£13,100) for the code violations.
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>I want to move on

Well, that took a while
 
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