In the midst of ugliness US Open, Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka offer lessons

In the midst of ugliness US Open, Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka offer lessons

The boos rained down on the field Arthur Ashe Stadium late Saturday afternoon, they will involve the fans in New York, as if the Jets another draft pick shit done, or the hapless Mets have lost yet another miserable game. Not that the new US Open champion, each 20 years old, was obtained from their trophy for the best women player to hit all time. The sample, Naomi Osaka should, from here in his native Japan, he smiled. He had just reached his wildest dreams and hit her idol’s first Grand Slam win their careers wildly promising. Instead, during the post-match awards ceremony, I pulled them on visor eyes down to hide the tears. The wealthy US Open was randomly into something bad than he had ever seen. Then Serena Williams one of the biggest winners hit of his career. Read TIME August 27, 2018 cover story of Serena Williams. You put it around Osaka arm around her to comfort her, and urged the amount pro-Serena was still ticked off that chair umpire Carlos Ramos gave a tough match penalty in the second set of his 6-2, 6-4 loss Osaka, quit cheer with the Bronx. “You have just won,” Williams said after the presentation. “I felt like, wow, that’s not how I felt when I got my first Grand Slam win. I definitely do not want them to feel that way.” Fans have been traced back to the boos politics and Serena cut. The moment of Osaka overwhelmed. He felt real pain for Williams to deny what would have been one of the proudest moments of their storied career. Williams is a grand slam titles short of the record of all time Margaret Court has 24 championships. He would have the brand in one year almost to lose tied their life away. the birth of her first child in September last year underwent pulmonary embolism Williams and took five steps later. “I know you wanted to be really right, the 24 Grand Slam?” He said after the game in Osaka. “Everyone knows that. It ‘on advertising, is everywhere. When I go to the field, I feel like a different person. I’m not a Serena fan. I’m just playing a tennis player another tennis player. But when I hugged him at the net … “Osaka began to tear, Williams saw the meeting in the middle of the court after his victory. “When I embraced at the net, I felt like a kid again.” The entire exchange was a tender touch to what was an otherwise unfortunate affair. At the beginning of the second set, chair Carlos Ramos Judge Williams was a code violation because he saw Williams’ coach, Patrick Mouratoglou to make a gesture with his hand on it; Coaching prohibited on the square in matches of the Grand Slam. After the game was Mouratoglou Williams tried to train. But all of them do, according Mouratoglou. “We all know that all coaches coach in every game, all year round,” says Mouratoglou. “So that’s the rule. Then there is the psychology of the umpire should have. As a ‘Serena, I saw your coach to make a move, stop, otherwise you will have a warning’ I do not understand why it has not done “Mouratoglou also said technical Osaka Sascha Bajin -. That Williams’. He was hitting partner for years – even during the game was coaching. “I do not what to do on the field I say,” says Bajin. “It ‘s more than I tell them, did a good job, it would have remained quiet, das.’Das is more motivation.” So no signal? “Hell, no,” says Bajin. Williams insists he has not seen Mouratoglou instructions. “We have no signal,” says Williams. “We never talked about signals.” He made this point clear Ramos. “I do not want to cheat to win,” Williams told him. “I’d rather lose.” She went a break in the second set but broke back quickly benefit Osaka Williams’ to cut to 3-2. Frustrated Williams smashed his bat that Ramos needed her a second violation of the code to evaluate – and connects a point in the next game. Still upset that receive the first violation for coaching, Williams began screaming and Ramos. “You owe me an apology,” he said. “I never cheated in my life, I have a daughter and I’m what’s right for them.” After Osaka broken again serving up 4-3, Williams Ramos sat in the transition to abuse. “I say I’m sorry,” said Williams. She called him a “liar” and a “thief” for a point away from her. Ramos she judged a third code violation that resulted in a penalty game. Osaka was now up 5-3, a few points from winning the match. A Williams tears, upset that Ramos would like a game away from her to call a thief for him, asked for his case, tournament referee Brian Earley and WTA supervisor Donna Kelso. “Do you know how many people do things that are much worse,” he told them. The fans turned against Ramos. Osaka jumped during deceleration losing hold. In the heat of competition, athletes often lose their cool. Williams have not pushed Ramos’ buttons during the transition, especially because they had two injuries already, and one more would have cost them a game. But officials can not in the business of an impact on the outcome of the final Grand Slam. At the end of close basketball games, for example, referees should be mentioned abhor a technical foul that could change the outcome of the game. Superstars have gained especially more leeway. Unless LeBron James a range of in-your-face F-bombs or face official Unleashed, engulfing the referee of his pipe. Call Ramos a thief was not fresh. But the offense does not justify a call so important. Many current and former tennis player agreed. However, the whole controversy should not overshadow the performance of Osaka. He played Williams on Saturday, period. Osaka seemed impressed, I pull out the aces when Williams had break points, almost flawless tennis in the first set. Osaka was only five unforced errors in the set, while Williams had 13 serve Williams struggled with her, they put only 38% of their serves in the game in the first set, while Osaka estimated 73% his first serves in play. Williams finished the day with six double faults; Osaka had one. If Ramos had not given the Williams game penalty, it would Osaka also serves to break in the second set to keep the game alive. Williams has won all afternoon a single intersection. Osaka closed the game on a 114 miles per winner hours of service; It serves big, big hits, and their body becomes the cruellest blows in time. Just like his idol. And Osaka is just the beginning. Meanwhile, Williams is already taking into account the teachings of their verbal confrontation. It much more of his sport is, and she knows it. No regrets their actions. “You can not surely go back in time,” says Williams. “I can not sit here and say that I would not say that he is a thief, because I thought it took me a game. I have other arbitrators men call several things views. I am fighting for equality between women and all kinds of things here . “Do you think the punishment was sexist. “He has never taken a game by a man, because they said, thief ‘. For me it is my mind.” He brought the violation code Alize Cornet of France, got to change his shirt and short past her sports bra is exposed on the spot in the tournament. Men can change shirts in public during a game. “This is outrageous,” says Williams. (Officials have made clear the rule: men and women can change shirts, sitting on their chairs in the square). “I like the fact I feel that I have to go through this is just an example for the next person who has emotions and desire to express themselves, and they want a strong woman,” Williams says, fighting back tears. “They may be doing it today why. Maybe it did not work for me. But it will work out for the next person.” Read the August 27, 2018 TIME cover story on Serena Williams.