Something that always has bothered about the way people portray Serena is how she’s always been painted as the bad guy. This woman has literally followed every single rule of tennis.
She gets 4 more time anti dopping tests done than her colleagues. In her 23 years of career she’s never failed one (not even under the excuse of having used meds, which I’m sure she’s had to use more than once). Not that even matters, becuse steriods fuck up with your soft tissues and causing muscular injuries, which in the case of using them continiusly (as she often gets accused of doing) she would have had a lot more of those.
I often hear people talking about how she “looks like a man” and no? I mean… I doubt Roger Federer or Rafael Nadal would look like she does on any of the dresses pictured above. Yeah, she’s muscular… But she’s been an athlete most of her life. She’s had a 23 years career playing tennis, I think sge has the body of someone who’s done that.
Not only that, but she follows the dress codes of the tournaments she plays. What happened after Roland Garros this year is proof that she can’t do anything right. Roland Garros didn’t have a specific dress code, but now, after she played with a compression suit she literally needs to prevent the formation of blood clots that could kill her (and in fact almost did after the birth of her child), it does and compression suits are “banned”.
And now… This thing with this referee, because she called him out on his shit? Because he made a bad call and she told him so? And she said that men have said and keep saying worse things to referees (which, btw, is true?
Don’t come at me with that shit. Why do y’all don’t just admit that when comes to Serena Williams is never about tennis and always aboyt what you don’t “like” about her as a person.
As I’m planning to tell my dad next time we have this conversation “Just admit your problem with Serena Williams gas less to do with tennis and more to do with the fact that you don’t find her attractive, even when she is avvery attractive and succesful woman?”
Serena Williams standing up for herself while referee accuses her of cheating. She had been docked points for coaching that didn’t happen.
This is so….so much deeper than what’s on the surface.
This umpire basically accused her of cheating! And penalized her for his accusations. This is touchy for Serena being that they have been conspiring against her for the longest with the whole drug testing. She’s had it with them opposing her with no merit or basis! SHE HAS NEVER CHEATED which has been proven time after time with those negative results. and to accuse her of that during this game is why she is extremely and rightfully emotional! The pain and humiliation in her voice says it all. It really hurt her for him to accuse her of that so publicly too. He announced it during the match on the mic to everyone and now that’s like a stain on this moment forever. That’s why she’s demanding he apologize to her and say it over the loudspeaker. To set the record straight that she didn’t do what he alleged.
Honestly she has faced the most her entire career and her mental fortitude to endure it and still be dominant is a miracle. ALWAYS A QUEEN
(this match was painful & angering to watch)
What’s even more annoying is that later on in the game, she got even more frustrated (both due to this and the fact that her and her opponent were playing INCREDIBLY GOOD GAMES!) and smashed her racket, and was docked points. When she called the umpire a thief, he decided to make a power play and cost her a whole game.
Not only did he try to steal this moment from Serena, he also cast a shadow over what should’ve been an AMAZING victory for 20 year old Naomi Osaka, a Haitian-Japanese player who’s the first Japanese Player to win a Grand Slam tournament.
This umpire literally cast a huge stain over this moment for both of these women, all because a black woman spoke to him in a tone he didn’t like. Never in tennis has there been such a severe penalization for something like being called a “thief” when there’s a well-documented history of male tennis players saying much worse.
I bet when Serena first picked up a tennis racket, at least one of those people felt the sharp chill of a prophesy being fulfilled and suddenly felt the urge to retire.
wupacing 