https://nypost.com/2022/09/01/media-can-now-finally-stop-ignoring-serena-williams-rotten-act/ Media can now finally stop ignoring Serena Williams’ rotten behavior “I swear to God, I’ll f–king take this ball and shove it down your f–king throat!.” — Serena Williams before a national and international TV audience to lineswoman Shino Tsurubuchi during the 2009 US Open. Well, we media folks have done it again. We’ve taken indisputable, recurring and conspicuous facts and buried them to create a sustainable fiction in service to nervous, cautious lies. It’s known as the Tiger Woods Media Pandering Syndrome. It’s not enough that Woods and Serena Williams were superior in their sports, among the all-time best. To that, unfiltered nonsense had to be infused: They were the most noble to have ever played. Their unparalleled goodness may never be surpassed. They were the most extraordinarily positive influences, role models, humanitarians, offspring, spouses, parents and selfless crusaders who have touched our otherwise miserable, desperate souls. This week, coast to coast and via all form of media, Williams was crowned as more than a world championship tennis player. She is a woman of extraordinary valor and class. Doesn’t matter how much evidence to the contrary, and there’s plenty. It was wishful, ignorant, obligatory and unnecessary rubbish. Or are the Tiger Woods Impaired Driving Academy and the Serena Williams Charm School coming to a strip mall near you? Serena Williams Andrew Schwartz/SIPA/Shutterstoc Tennis may never again be “graced” by a woman who was such a relentlessly rotten winner and worse loser. She, and only she, was the reason she won or lost. If she extended credit to an opponent, it was heard as insincere, brief, parenthetical and culled. Anett Kontaveit breaks down in tears after US Open loss to Serena Williams Was it mere coincidence that many in attendance at Williams’ second-round win, Wednesday, felt entitled to boorish, bully behavior in support of Williams, cheering opponent Anett Kontaveit’s errors including double faults? During and after the match, judging from her silence, Williams, media personification of the sportswoman, was good with that. Williams’ livid, wild-eyed tantrum at the chair ump during the 2018 Open — he’d detected she was cheating, which she denied, via signals from a coach before she shouted, among other things, “You’re a thief!” — was also cheered by the obnoxious. Williams later dubiously excused herself by explaining her behavior as an attempt to strike a blow for women’s rights. Sure enough, selectively blind and deaf media lined up to buy that “social activism” fiction. As always, she threw a fit on her own behalf only. Serena Williams berates chair umpire Carlos Ramos during the 2018 US Open. EPA The woman whose rights were trampled that day was newcomer Naomi Osaka, left in tears for the audacity to have beaten Williams in the final, as US Open chair Katrina Adams took the court microphone to declare disappointment for all in the outcome as Williams will always be her and our champion. Adams, a black woman, later amended her claim to explain she was “thrilled” to be standing on the podium with “two women of color.” The head of the US Open held an admitted bias based on race rather than tennis. Even Williams’ last go at Wimbledon, this summer, was tethered to reports of excessive self-entitlement. Wimbledon held a Centenary Celebration marking 100 years of its Centre Court. Past champs, including injured Roger Federer, flew in. Williams blew it off. According to UK media, she was miffed that the five luxury courtesy cars she and her entourage requested and were provided, were expected to be returned the day after a player is eliminated. House rules. After losing in the first round, claimed the reports, Wimbledon refused her request to hang on to the cars for the duration of the tournament. So Williams bolted, to hell with that ceremony and Wimbledon. Weeks later in Cincinnati, ticket-buyers lured by a last live look at Williams were treated to her recurring gracious side. Crushed in the first round, she bolted, refusing a farewell to the crowd on the court microphone, then refusing to attend a post-match media session. Serena Williams yells at the line judge during the 2009 US Open. EPA As for that vulgar, threatening 2009 episode with that Open lineswoman, she actually continued to verbally abuse her as she apparently correctly concluded that there was no way anyone would have the temerity to disqualify her for such abhorrently low conduct. Or would the No. 30 seed have been granted such an indulgence? Afterwards, she was incensed by the mere suggestion that she owed that lineswoman an apology: “An apology? From me? Well, how many people yell at linespeople?” Yeah, hers was standard tennis behavior. She later claimed she apologized. The recent movie “King Richard,” a varnished tale of the Williams sisters’ often unhinged and bigoted father and mentor — Serena was its executive producer — this year won for Will Smith the Academy Award for Best Actor. Yet it has been a colossal box office bust. Reasons given: the COVID pandemic and its streaming on HBO Max. Reasons not given are that the discerning public has grown sick of the Williams family’s act, tired of advertisers and media shoving Serena down our better senses as someone we all love and admire. This week, ESPN’s lead Open voices, Chris Fowler, John McEnroe and Chris Evert, swapped obsequious, all-glory-to-Serena sonnets — artificially sweetened fairy tales. Having witnessed much of Williams’ excessive misconduct, there is nothing better to conclude than that their commentary was transparently and intentionally dishonest. Tiger Woods Pandering Media Syndrome. Don’t believe what you see and know, believe what you’re told to believe. Some truths are none of your business.
Never been a Serena fan. Hell not a big fan of tennis and def not women's tennis. but she’s the GOAT of women’s tennis. Who’s cares if she’s competitive and says means words on a tennis court to a player/official. what kind of soft world are we living in now. and Tiger elevated a great sport in Golf to a mainstream audience while also being the best or second best player of all time and dominated for close to two decades. His masters win a few years back was things only the greats can do and was like something out of a movie. these ppl are great athletes who make mistakes. Some bigger then others. Doesn’t make them bad ppl. I don’t care what they do off the court as long as their not physically hurting ppl or committing externally bad crimes. I especially don’t care what their saying on the court/felid/course to other athletes or officials. Quite frankly I don’t care what they say to fans either as long as it’s not said towards children. words our just words if more ppl lived by that we would be in a much better place as a society.
I dont think Serena is going to retire. I was only watching Tennis for Serena, Venus and Andy Roddick. now they are all gone.
There's are a tons of assholes on top of every sport, from Jordan to Kobe, Serena just happens to be one of them
Serena may be the greatest women's tennis player of all time. In the past she was a bully, never gave credit when her ass got beat, and I couldn't stand her. In the past few years, she's gotten better at all of those things which is good, but it doesn't erase her tantrums and abuse. I couldn't stand the ass kissing all tournament long about her. Glad she's gone. But she also deserves credit for her game. She was as good as it gets. She definitely also encountered some horrible behavior directed at her.
Margaret Court was an overt racist and homophobic, so she's been blackballed. Australia doesn't want to celebrate her in any shape or form, nor the rest of the world.
