Serena Williams comforting Naomi Osaka when the crowd started booing during the trophy ceremony
editing my reblog to add some context bc not everyone knows: the umpire hit Serena with bullshit penalties, so the audience was pretty pissed at the U.S. Open officials and booed them accordingly, but Serena saw how upsetting the whole situation was for Naomi Osaka, and took the mic to congratulate her and encourage the audience to support her
For many, the joy for Osaka’s hard-won victory was soured by the way
Williams was treated during the match. During the second set, the chair
umpire, Carlos Ramos, gave Williams a game penalty after he said that
she had accrued three violations: receiving coaching, smashing a racket
in frustration, and then verbally abusing the umpire after the initial
penalties.Williams refuted two of the three penalties, growing
angry at the notion that the umpire thought she was cheating by
receiving advice from her coach. “I don’t cheat to win, I’d rather
lose,” she said. As she tried to defend herself against the umpire’s
call of verbal abuse minutes later, after she called him a “thief,” she
was heard saying: “There are a lot of men out here who have said a lot
of things and do not get that punishment. Because I am a woman you are
going to take this away from me? That is not right.”
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