Columnist Sally Jenkins: Chair umpire Carlos Ramos “took what began as a minor infraction and turned it into one of the nastiest and most emotional controversies in the history of tennis, all because he couldn’t take a woman speaking sharply to him.” https://t.co/iXtmfjNzOU
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“Male players have sworn and cursed at the top of their lungs, hurled and blasted their equipment into shards, and never been penalized as Williams was in the second set of the U.S. Open final,” Sally Jenkins writes. https://t.co/qX2BR3ZQzm pic.twitter.com/fAhpJRsgMm
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Billie Jean King: “When a woman is emotional, she’s ‘hysterical” and she’s penalized for it. When a man does the same, he’s ‘outspoken’ and there are no repercussions. Thank you, Serena Williams, for calling out this double standard.” https://t.co/XNtl3088Am
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