“I’ve seen other men call other umpires several things,” she said. “I’m here fighting for women’s rights and for women’s equality and for all kinds of stuff. For me to say ‘thief,’ and for him to take a game, it made me feel like it was a sexist remark. He’s never taken a game from a man because they said ‘thief’.
“For me, it blows my mind,” Williams said. “But I’m going to continue to fight for women.”
Serena Williams has blamed an umpire for sexism and treating her more cruelly than men as she utilized a public interview to twofold down on her prior on-court tirade at the authority amid her US Open last thrashing to Japan’s Naomi Osaka.
The 23-time Grand Slam champion wins support of tennis legend Billie Jean King in the wake of saying men are dealt with less brutally.
> Alma Siddiqua
