1ºSherlisa Steele
I think you need to watch the video several more times but perhaps with your eyes open and with more open-mindedness and objectivity. You simply do not want to admit your opinion was far too judgmental and you have over reacted like the tournament and chair official.
I have often seen a tennis player return the ball down the sideline to the opposite end toward the corner where the ball boy/girl stand. This was merely a fluke with no intention to harm anyone.
Remember the opposing team made this an issue. Gee, and they were losing the match at the time!
You didn’t give that one bit of thought, did you. Guilty of prejudicial bias!
Not comparable when you consider the following:
I have seen ball girls/boys and line judges hit by a first serve:
What is the Average Tennis Serve Speed? To give a bit of context, the average speed of a first serve in tennis is usually around the 190-200 km/h or 120 mph mark in men's professional tennis and around the 170-180 km/h or 105 mph mark in women's professional tennis.
2ºEd Bell Jr. I agree that society didn't come down as hard on him but that's just the world we live in today. Not saying he wasn't a champ but people knew him for his antics. Why would any organization go and support her tantrum about the game being sexist? That makes no commercial sense. She made a big deal about that and about being a mother and this and that... she just sounded like a whiney crybaby to me, not that McEnroe didn't - but at least his outbursts were something that corporations could play off of in ad campaigns.
In any case, let's agree to disagree.
3ºJustin Chan McEnroe was a good player. He didn’t make his name off of tantrums. He won 3 Wimbledon titles and 4 US Open titles. He was ranked #1 in 1980. His career record is 883-198. He was no slouch. The biggest names in Men’s tennis during that time was Jimmy Conners, Bjorn Borg, and McEnroe. Again, organizations went to him and asked him to endorse their products playing off the tantrums. McEnroe wasn’t going off on the court because he thought it would get him paid or make him popular. That was his personality.
Serena never did it on the level as McEnroe and played in far more matches. Neither of these athletes are thinking about image in the heat of battle. Again, society never came down on Mac like they did Serena. Fact.
4º….. ummm, no?
“Players ALWAYS clear the ball” appropriately?…….. Really?……. You obviously don’t watch tennis or just biased……. Did she mess up by hitting the ball wildly out of frustration?…….. yup but to say that never happens is a erroneous statement…… I’ve seen many ball girls & guys get hit with much harder shots than that & shrug it off….. we’re encouraging weak behavior & coddling to it only enforces it…… she clearly was fine after being hit….. yes, she cried but soooo?…… you get over it & move on……. Stop conditioning our youth to be weak…… no participation trophies here bruh.
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6ºJane Dunkel Valentin I never said she did it on purpose. I’m just saying let me hit you on the neck with a dead ball from across the court.
But seriously, the player wasn’t “simply getting rid of an unneeded ball.” Watch the full footage. There’s a ball boy on their side of the court near the net. If she was simply getting rid of it, she could have hit it to him as he was only a few feet away in front of her. Instead she decided to try and impale the ball girl from across the court. Maybe the ball girl was making funny faces during her serve, who knows? It’s a conspiracy!
7ºEnry Yao Anti sport behavior? How about control your emotions and don’t send a dead ball across the court in frustration? The fact of the matter is, any of the opponents could have been hit by the ball! It just so happens that it struck a ball girl instead. The player who hit the ball girl didn’t even go check on the ball girl’s condition until after the umpire got off his chair to go check on her and had to drag the player to the ball girl just to show what the player caused! The player showed zero concern up until then.
If I hit a dead ball across from you out of frustration, I doubt you’d be happy about it. You’re blaming the wrong people.
8ºMonaifa Pasandalan You have zero idea what you’re talking about. How about you watch the full sequence first before commenting? The umpire wasn’t pressured to call for disqualification, because it wasn’t the umpire who disqualified them! It was the tournament official.
You blame the opposing team because the team that hit a dead ball were disqualified for striking a ball girl? LMAO. The player who struck the ball girl didn’t even check on the condition of the ball girl or show concern until the opposing team told the umpire to go check on the ball girl! And you think the opposing team should be ashamed of themselves? You’re an idiot.