Things got heated during today’s US Open final after Serena Williams went at the chair umpire throughout the match.
During her match agains tNaomi Osaka Serena got angry with the chair umpire for penalizing her early in the match for a coaching violation.
This led to Serena confronting the umpire and letting him know that she wasn’t intentionally cheating when he gave her the coaching violation.
—Serena to the chair umpire after receiving a coaching violation pic.twitter.com/v6Q2GWYYOn
— espnW (@espnW) September 8, 2018
Serena got docked a point a bit later for her second code of conduct violation when she smashed her racket in a fate of rage.
— Mike Goldfarb (@MikeGoldFool) September 8, 2018
Serena went on to once again blast the umpire and called him a “thief”
— Complex Sports (@ComplexSports) September 8, 2018
The umpire had enough of Serena and gave her a third code of conduct violation which led to a game penalty.
Bizarre scenes t the #USOPEN
— SI Tennis (@SI_Tennis) September 8, 2018
A tearful Serena then pleaded to officials of how she was treated unfairly and how men wouldn’t have been docked for their language.
— gifdsports (@gifdsports) September 8, 2018
Serena went on to lose the match against Osaka but the Internet was on fire.
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) September 8, 2018
— Jonathan Van Ness (@jvn) September 8, 2018
— Stuart Fraser (@stu_fraser) September 8, 2018
— Kyle Harvey (@HarveyWins) September 8, 2018
— Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) September 8, 2018
And good on Serena for being there for Osaka and stopping the booing. #USOpen
— Matt Dowell (@TheMattDowell) September 8, 2018
The whole thing stinks on hot ice.
— Jen Chaney (@chaneyj) September 8, 2018
— Rawan (@rawan) September 8, 2018
— Arash Markazi (@ArashMarkazi) September 8, 2018
Good for her for standing up for herself.
— Julie DiCaro (@JulieDiCaro) September 8, 2018
