During tennis star Serena Williams&#8217; embarrassing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/35655/prestigiacomo-dont-praise-serena-williams-amanda-prestigiacomo">meltdown</a> last year at the U.S. Open, she <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx9iT1OQMl0">vowed</a> that umpire Carlos Ramos, whom she unfairly accused of sexism, would &#8220;never&#8221; umpire one of her matches, again.
Williams, it seems, got exactly what she asked for. The U.S. Tennis Association announced over the weekend that Ramos will not umpire any of the Williams sisters&#8217; matches during the open. &#8220;This is our collective decision,&#8221; said the tennis organization&#8217;s president Stacey Allaster, according to <a href="https://sports.yahoo.com/williams-ban-us-open-umpire-serena-osaka-furore-172754847--ten.html">Yahoo! Sports</a>. &#8220;We want to focus on the competition.&#8221;
As noted by the outlet, U.S. Open tournament referee Soren Friemel contended the Ramos move was &#8220;not the first time that we made decisions where it&#8217;s good for the tournament, good for the players, good for the umpires as well, to not be on those matches.&#8221;
&#8220;In the end, our goal is to assign the best chair umpire for the right match,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So in taking all those factors into consideration, the decision was made that he would not do any of the Williams sisters&#8217; matches.&#8221;
Again seemingly attempting to mask the suspect optics, Friemel argued that Ramos &#8220;has worked all the other Grand Slams. He has done Davis Cup, Fed Cup, he&#8217;s going to the Davis Cup finals. He&#8217;s considered still for all high-profile matches.&#8221;
During her final U.S. Open match against 20-year-old Naomi Osaka, Williams erupted when Ramos docked the athlete for illegally receiving coaching from the sidelines (which was later admitted to by Williams&#8217; coach Patrick Mouratoglou), smashing her racket, and committing &#8220;verbal abuse.&#8221; The tennis icon branded Ramos a &#8220;thief&#8221; and a sexist and demanded an apology. &#8220;There&#8217;s men out here who do a lot worse. But because I&#8217;m a woman, because I&#8217;m a woman, you&#8217;re gonna take this away from me? That is not right,&#8221; Williams lashed out. She also told Ramos directly, &#8220;You will never do another one of my matches.&#8221;
The pity-party continued post-match, too, when Williams positioned herself as a martyr for &#8220;women&#8217;s equality.&#8221;
&#8220;He&#8217;s (Ramos) never taken a game from a man because they said &#8216;thief.&#8217; For me it blows my mind. But I&#8217;m going to continue to fight for women,&#8221; Williams told reporters, adding, &#8220;I just feel like the fact that I have to go through this is just an example for the next person that has emotions, and that want to express themselves, and want to be a strong woman. They&#8217;re going to be allowed to do that because of today.&#8221;
Osaka, whose impressive win was undeniably overshadowed by Williams&#8217; antics, said she would be fine with Ramos as an umpire for her future matches. &#8220;I never really say that I don&#8217;t like an umpire, so I never change that. I&#8217;ll never be specific if I don&#8217;t want someone to umpire my match. I just go with whoever is doing it,&#8221; she said, Yahoo! Sports reported.
According to a report from <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tennis-usopen/chair-umpire-ramos-has-lasting-impact-on-us-open-idUSKCN1VE05H">Reuters</a>, U.S. Tennis Association officials also said that code violations will be posted on the tournament&#8217;s scoreboards in real time, a first for the event.
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No matter how many losses she incurs, tennis icon Serena Williams has vowed to keep fighting for equality until she goes to her grave.
According to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/sports/serena-williams-criticism-equality-fight-wimbledon-2019">Fox News</a>, Serena Williams has not won a Grand Slam tournament since 2017, leading some to speculate whether she has focused too much of her time on causes not related to tennis.
&#8220;After her latest <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/sports/tennis/wimbledon" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Wimbledon</a> loss to Simona Halep, she was questioned about how much she focused on tennis,&#8221; reports the outlet. &#8220;Williams’ bid for a record-tying 24th major win came up short Saturday when Halep defeated her, 6-2, 6-2, in under an hour at the All England Club.&#8221;
At a press conference after the defeat, a reporter asked Williams her thoughts on those who say she has focused too much on &#8220;fighting for equality&#8221; and not enough on maintaining or improving her tennis game.
&#8220;The day I stop fighting for equality and for people that look like you and me will be the day I’m in my grave,&#8221; Williams said.
The reporter&#8217;s question was spurred by comments made by noted female tennis player Billie Jean King, who told <a href="https://metro.co.uk/2019/06/27/billie-jean-king-wants-serena-williams-to-fully-commit-to-tennis-10082153/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Metro</a> last month that Serena Williams should delegate some of her social justice-oriented tasks to focus more on tennis.
&#8220;She&#8217;s got business, a baby, she&#8217;s trying to help gender equity, particularly for women of color, she&#8217;s actually on the Billie Jean King leadership initiative, she and Venus are both advisors for it,&#8221; Billie Jean King said. &#8220;[It makes winning a Slam] much harder. I would like to see her put everything else aside from that. She&#8217;s got people working on these things.&#8221;
Following the press conference, Billie Jean King said on Twitter that she never intended to persuade Serena Williams to stop fighting for equality. “I would never ask anyone to stop fighting for equality,” she wrote. “In everything she does, Serena shines a light on what all of us must fight for in order to achieve equality for all.”
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">I would never ask anyone to stop fighting for equality. In everything she does, Serena shines a light on what all of us must fight for in order to achieve equality for all.
— Billie Jean King (@BillieJeanKing) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillieJeanKing/status/1150097664970821633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 13, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Billie Jean King <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/35710/billie-jean-king-serena-williams-was-robbed-sexism-paul-bois">previously came to Williams&#8217; defense</a> when the tennis player went ballistic at the U.S. Open last year — where she openly screamed at the chair umpire Carlos Ramos for calling penalties she deemed unfair. After unsuccessfully demanding that the umpire issue her an &#8220;apology,&#8221; Williams became so enraged that she smashed her tennis racket into the ground. King said, however, that Serena Williams was a victim of the &#8220;patriarchy.&#8221;
&#8220;For Williams, and for many other women who have experienced an abuse of power at their workplaces, there was more at stake,&#8221; said King. &#8220;Did Ramos treat Williams differently than male players have been treated? I think he did. Women are treated differently in most arenas of life. This is especially true for women of color.&#8221;
&#8220;I hope every single girl and woman watching yesterday’s match realizes they should always stand up for themselves and for what they believe is right. Nothing will ever change if they don’t,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;Women are taught to be perfect. We aren’t perfect, of course, and so we shouldn’t be held to that standard. We have a voice. We have emotions. When we react adversely to a heated professional situation, far too often, we’re labeled hysterical. That must stop.&#8221;

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