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The coach admitted he was coaching, whether Serena lied about watching him or not, she knows she can’t break her racket without a violation, and called the ref a thief and continued yelling at him, man if I were the ref especially after two violations I would have thrown her out of the game for her yelling at him continuously

Feel bad for Osaka. She should be enjoying this amazing win.

That is not the case. The same upmire has previously done the same warning and point deductions for rafael nadal and novak djokovic who are some of the best tennis players, so this was clearly not an issue of sexism. The only victim here was the japanese girl whos achievement was completely ignored.

No no no trevor, braking a racket in tennis is incredibly childish, do you know who hard it is to do that?

Trevor, McEnroe was once penalised an entire match for shoddy behaviour. Losing their temper is not "just what sports-men and -women do". Sports is an arena that is highly emotionally charged - any fool can lose their temper. It is emotional control that defines good sportsmanship.

I like Trevor’s show, but he really has no idea what he’s talking about here

Dude, in football if you talk trash to the reff you get a red card. 🤥

Even though long time has passed, but i still want to say how wrong is Trevor in this talk 1. Coach is not allowed to help during the competition, it's not about coaching in general. This is crystal clear rule for tennis. 2. The referee had made a correct decision by giving a penalty, and Serena should accept it and move on (apparently she didn't). 3. The difference between some man players and Serena in this particular situation is that she kept trash-talking for some long period of time, male players maybe had a short burn-out and that's it. 4. Serena accused referee on being sexist (her opponent was a woman too), liar and thief, whereas the man was just doing his job. 5. I personally believe that in sports like tennis, volleyball, swimming, athletics there is a very important difference that competitors don't have a physical contact with each other, so the only thing that matters for winning is skillset (in basketball, football or hockey happens lot of hard contacts during a match, and many injuries might happen which could affect on result, that's why losing temper there sometimes is reasonable) . This is why Serena should be able to control herself because the only reason that she was losing was that the opponent was outplaying her! PS.. sorry for my mistakes, English isn't my mother tongue

Tired of this Serena drama overshadowing Naomi Osaka's accomplishment. Completely unfair to her and robbed her of a happy celebration.

If you notice, every media source is defending Serena, meanwhile in every comments section people are saying Serena was out of lines. Interesting.

"argument is coaching is not allowed during match" it's like no book during exam

Its sad that whenever there's an issue where the person plays the sexism card (or any other), many people (with all respect Trevor, you are in it too) blindly supports that person. Just because the card she used is a real sensitive on going topic even if its not relevant to the situation. And u know who was the real theif? Serena, for stealing Osaka's probably life's best moment

Trevor, all I'm going to say is that just double check the facts. Serena got a game penalty for calling the official a thief. She got a point penalty for breaking her racket. I just want people to know the actual facts

It’s hilarious that suddenly unsportsmanlike is justified when it’s convenient for you. And now you want it normalized.

I think Trevor is so wrong here. If there is a rule of not coaching then that rule applies to all players whether male or female. Period. Don't compare Tennis(a non contact game) with likes of Basketball or Football. I mean, chess has different set of rules than Football, I don't see Chess GrandMasters complaining about that. Also, Serena kept going after the umpire for a long time. Called him Liar and Thief, meanwhile that guy is just doing his job. She, before that broke her racquet out of anguish. She just wanted to win after becoming a "mom", disregarding the fact that the young girl who she was playing against also put hard work into her play. The worst part was when Osaka cried and apologised for winning. Serena as a mom failed to show millions of daughters to be supportive of other women's victory. I mean, the Beauty pageant win where Miss Nigeria didn't win but was so happy that other black woman did, is a way better show of support than what Serena did. It's understandable what Serena did because she wanted to prove her haters wrong and felt that pressure of victory. But, it's not acceptable what her action led to a situation where the victor was humiliated by the the audience because they wanted to show support to Serena. Also, not acceptable when influential people like Trevor talk about women only from Serena's perspective and not from a new player Osaka's standpoint, who ironically is also a woman. A wrong is a wrong, whether it comes from a man or woman, whether it happened at the expense of another man or woman.

Lol, you are comparing potato with oranges. You comparing tennis with NBA, while it should been the judgement of conduct between men and women in the same sports. If a man threw a tantrum in tennis sport his point would be deducted too.

My first dislike. With all due respect, you are wrong to compare the culture of different sports. Just because brawling is allowed in hockey doesn't mean it should be allowed in every sport. Serena Williams is not new to the sport of tennis. She should know better. I do find the coaching rule dumb, but it is a rule. It is obvious players should not break/abuse the racket. As for the verbal abuse. Even I got sick of it. Serena kept bad mouthing the umpire after the point penalty. The crowd got so riled up that at one point the focus of the match was no longer the sport, but Serena's tantrum. I stand behind the umpire. He is strict as fuck, but oh well...shit happens.

Trevor, I think you’ve got this one wrong. I’ve played and watched tennis all my life and three warnings lead to a game deduction. It’s part of the rules. Regardless of how you think not coaching is a dumb rule or not, it is a rule. That’s irrelevant to the argument. In total if you get three code violations, which Serena did for coaching, breaking a racket, and then throwing a tantrum at the umpire, you lose a game. That particular umpire has been consistent, albeit strict, across the men’s and women’s game. If you look at his history, he’s harshly penalised Djokovic and Nadal too for coaching and racket smashes in history. Other umpires are more chill, but this guy isn’t and you should know that going into a match. The argument was that he’s somehow sexist for enforcing the rules on Serena. Serena stated that she was a mother and argued purely based on her feelings, instead of specifically calling out the code violations and the rules. She accused the umpire of being sexist. Her approach was to play the discrimination card when there was absolutely no evidence to base it on. That was unsportsmanlike and misguided. If every marginalized person argues on feelings, and we can’t do anything to them, that’s victimization and all sense goes out the window. That’s dangerous to society. Please be more objective and factual.

I like how everyone is pretending that men never get scolded for misbehaving and how everyone is completely ignoring the fact that male players also lost games for misbehaving... not mentionibg the fact that men get fined a lot more for misbehaving than women do

Dude when you don’t know about tennis, don’t comment shit.

Trevor Noah clearly doesn’t know the rules of the game, he didn’t even mention the rules involving 3 accumulated penalties 🤦‍♂️

Oh come on, Osaka won and she's completely over shadowed by this and booed. Is she not a woman? Can't nobody talk about Osaka??

2 years later, Trevor sounds so dumb with this. I just watched Serena beaten again by Naomi at Melbourne. I guess he should make another video

I was only young but I remember David beckham lashing out and kicking a player against Argentina in the World Cup - he was hated for months by the media and had efurgies of him hung in the street

it is one of the rare times I disagree with you Trevor. Its right in many other sports men act very Furious. But in Tennis it's just against the rule what she did.

You lost the fact completely. Everyone does misbehave when things go wrong ... but not after they got warning. Idiot. She is not penalized for arguing. She is not penalized for being angry on Umpire. She is not penalized for keep talking. She was penalized for calling umpire thief and that was explained. Dont be selective listener, Trevor. She was penalized for physical abuse shown on material (Court and Racket) . Dont ignore the facts, Trevor. Tennis is Tennis, dont mix that up with Football or Baseball. People had been punished for misbehavior when it is outside of the boundaries of limits set. Tennis has set those limits and when someone had crossed it has process to punish that behavior. Firstly warning, then punishment and then even more serious punishment.

At this point of time, it feels like Trevor will literally go to any lengths to defend BLACK people even though they are visibly wrong. Idk feels biased

Yall sayin he's defending Serena, yall miss the whole point. Hes talking about the equality between man and woman, no relation of her doing and Osaka.

It wasn't just Serena getting angry. She was threatening the ref. She was threatening to get everyone fired. It was one of the most entitled things I've ever seen. The crowd was pure shit too, they boo'd the winner for winning. Don't take my word for it - watch the video. Don't just read whatever shit is trending on Twitter, actually watch the video and then try to tell me Serena was in the right.

The only correct thing Noah said was; "I don't understand the rules in tennis."

1. If men do that in the NBA its the same drama. Remember Chris Paul and that female Ref. she called shit, paul said it and then he was suddnely a hardcore sexist. 2. Serena didn't just get emotional, she handled herself in a very disgraceful way and disrespected the referee, her opponent and the sport as a whole in this situation. This had nothing to of with sexism. If the coach in the nba disbehaves, he gets a technichal and the other team a freethrow and the ball. Its the same in every sport. 3. To say every athlete plays there best against serena is totally stupid. Every athlete gives 100% every competion, especially if they want to be succesfull. Stop making up excuses, or lift ordinary people higher just because they are US. She is an excellent Tennis players, but there are alot of them.

Ag dude you really became a puppet of your own success. It's sad for me as a proud South African to see this guy becoming one of his own jokes

Male players are punished for the same violation too. Many examples are already in the comments. You cannot talk about statistics when you don't have the numbers, Trevor. And the fact that this umpire is consistent, unbiased and meticulous in all the matches, regardless who the players are (men/women, high-ranked/low-ranked,...) should be celebrated. It's other umpires who overlook these rules need to pay more attention. And how can you promote disrespect towards other human beings like calling the umpire a thief and unsportsmanlike behavior like smashing racquets and fighting? That should not be celebrated in tennis and in any sports.

No, Trevor. What Serena did was wrong. Carlos Ramos is a fair umpire and a stickler for the rules. He's given court violations to Nadal, Djokovic and Andy Murray. For Andy, he gave the violation for calling him "a stupid umpire" This is not an isolated incident. Last year, he gave two court violations to Nadal for serving slow. It's not as if he targeted Serena. Yes, all coaches coach players in Tennis matches, but her coach was actually caught on camera and admitted as such. He was caught on camera and thus, he was penalised. That's all. It's not as if Carlos turned himself and saw what her coach was doing. And you can't judge McEnroe by today's standards. In his time, people hardly got penalised. And to top it all of, she used the gender card. I'm all for equal rights, but she acted like a kid, and was NOT gracious in defeat.

Tennis does have an etiquette you have to follow though unlike other sports

Wow trevor, its almost like you dont have a clue what you are talking about...

Sorry Trevor, this time I don’t agree with your comments. Serena lost it, and her behavior was very unsportsmanlike conduct against Naomi.

Osaka outplayed Serena, end of story

" The guys did it too" Oh ok, my friends stole a candy bar so that allows me too do it too. Its a rule man. Doesn't matter who does it

I feel like a lot of people missed the point here.

That's what happens when you have a sports champion who's bigger than the sport itself, like Serena: there is an hoard of people who know nothing about tennis taking her defense in a comical way. Her coach made a mild violation. He was caught. Serena took it weirdly personally saying some really strange shit like "I'd rather lose than cheat, I'm a mother". She broke a racquet, thus committing a second violation. Finally, she insulted and threatened the umpire's job accusing him of being a thief. Everything is on her and she was treated fairly. It happens in a player's career to have a bad moment like that. The army that stood up to defend her just because she's popular is plain wrong, and Trevor is sadly part of that army.

This is crazy. Carlos Ramos is a strict umpire who is strict towards both male players and female players. So for Serena to have a rant at him (when she was losing) and then claim that she was speaking out against sexism in tennis is plain baloney. Shame on her. Senior players should be setting a good example, not sinking to the lowest accepted standard of behaviour

As much as I respect you Noah, you are totally wrong on this case.

Trevor! only video; I don't agree with you. Yes, everyone should be punished per the rules and the players know it.

Tennis is not basketball. You don't know what you're talking about.

1. Tennis and Basketball are different sports. 2. It’s fair to say she lost it or had a meltdown. We say that about male players too. 3. This particular umpire has been punishing male players too. So playing the sexist card is really pathetic and low. 4. Her verbal abuse went on for the rest of the game and involved threatening the umpires career. He took a lot of shit from her before he acted.

Correction, only at the Grand Slam tournaments(US Open, Wimbledon, French Open, and Australian Open) can you not get coached. The smaller tourneys, your coach is allowed to do so.

Tennis is not baseball or basketball. Tennis is a gentleman's game. Even the audience is to remain silent when game is in play. You are expected to behave in a dignified and honourable manner.

Didn't coach come out saying, "Yes, I did provide coaching [paraphrased]"?

What you told is not what happened. Serena was given 2 warnings (that is 1 point penalty) for breaking the rules twice. Then she repeatedly insulted the umpire in several different ways, and was rightfully punished with a game penalty for her verbal abuse. That has nothing to do with passion. Your story is a joke; your are in bad faith.

We did say “he was loosing it” about McEnroe and he got penalized.

Sorry, Trevor, probably the first time I disagree with you here. The coaching issue here is deeper. Roger Federer nailed it - tennis is very much a contest between just the two players. In-game coaching is not allowed. Also, every player does not have access to the same resources, and if in-game coaching was allowed, it could cause imbalance. Singles is truly a contest between the two players themselves for that game. I think that is apt.

I can't believe what I'm seeing here. I guess the main issue is that people are so ignorant about tennis, and just watch it when the US Open is on (in America, as French would only watch tennis when the French Open is on). In tennis we don't want people smashing rackets or talking shit to the umpire (by the way, in what world do we live today if we advocate for blatantly disrespecting other people and shouting at them...?). Tennis is a sport based on the curtesy of the players to each other and to the umpire. Second, Serena knows the rules. She has been playing since forever. After getting the first warning - whether the warning was justified or not - she should have kept her cool and kept on playing, well knowing that breaking a racket would mean automatically losing a point. She has been known to return situations that were way worse (in terms of her being dominated by the opponent in the match) in her career, so she definitely has the grit and the nerves to keep her head cool in such situations. Instead of doing that, she went on and called the umpire a thief - which, by the way, no male or female tennis player does - and completely disrupted the match. This reminds me of the likes of Connor and McEnroe who were deliberately creating chaos on court in order to disrupt their opponents when they were behind in score. Third, the sexism card. The referee, who has an exceptional track record as a great umpire in tennis, by the way, is also known to give no free pass to big tennis stars (no matter their gender). Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal have both been warned and punished by this umpire for breaking the rules. None of them made a scene or a fuss out of it. It is not a case of sexism. It is a case of a star that wants a free pass because usually it works. In tennis it's not about gender, it's more about your star status. Usually works (and it worked for Serena despite uttering death threats to umpires in 2009 and 2011) but not with this specific umpire. Not to mention Serena participating in a sexist and homophobic commercial against Amélie Mauresmo a couple years ago (great example of fighting for women rights). I think her attitude was disgraceful and she spoiled the party for Naomi Osaka, who was idolizing her in the past. Fortunately she tried to make amend at the end and that is the only moment where she conducted herself like a true champion, something she should always do if she truly wants to be a role model.

This man is showing his bias here!

If you actually understood tennis and looked into it you would know that that behavior is utterly unacceptable. Serena does it constantly and everyone is to afraid to stand up to her because of stuff like this. The umpire for the match is very well known and has a reputation for enforcing the rules and did the exact same thing for other players who are male.

"Now I personally think everyone should fight I think it's more fun" Now this is a sentence I will use all the time

Can't we all just agree that this is Osakas fault? If she would have played worse and just let Williams win, this would never have happened.

"I'm a mother... say you're sorry, say it..." She was way out of line.

This is what happens when individuals don't understand a topic but base all their arguments on what they see on SM and mainstream media

I really like this guy but he is totally wrong. This was not baseball. She broke the rules. Guys who do they get punished.

I am a tennis fan and in this case the ref did just what he would do in any other match with male players. Tennis isn't any other sport, tennis isn't the NBA, it has its own rules that ARE more strict and players (men and women) do get penalized more for behavior like breaking a racket and insulting a ref. That's normal. That's tennis. So no, in this case this has absolutely nothing to do with gender or a sexist ref and the discussion about it is very silly for everyone that only knows a little bit about tennis. It's important that gender-issues are discussed. But unfair attacks like this that are made without knowing the facts aren't helping, they are helping the other side.

A poor, biased, regrettable opinion delivered by Trevor. Or, I think it was just a rant, just like Serena's.

Trevor - you were NOT there, or you would have seen for yourself every call was valid! (and she mentioned the thumbs up - how did she know that's what her coach was signaling?)

“I dont get the ban on coaching” says the man who keeps calling a tennis match a “game”

Serena owes the umpire, Carlos Ramos, and her adversary, Naomi Osaka, an apology. She was being bested and loosing control of the game and that led to losing control of her temper. Playing the "woman" card and the "mother" card was tottaly unjust, uncalled for and bellittles the gender equality movement. She rained on Naomi's party and that was shamefull. Serena should be suspended until making a public appology both to the umpire and the adversary. As for Trevor's show, I love him but in this case he was ill informed and I dont agree with his assessment. Serena was not a victim, coaching is a penalty in tennis and is in the rules, she was point penalized on the third warning for berating the umpire and calling him a "thief" and a "liar" while she threw a tantrum. And anyone who screams discrimination should try and find any other player, male or female, who got away with this kind of behaviour in a Carlos Ramos match. Good luck with that...

This was not sexism. Serena just had a meltdown and tried to pull the mom card, the woman card, and superstar card...too bad. Didn’t work. Deserved to lose

No. She was treated EXACTLY the same as that particular umpire treated men doing the same thing. Those men saying the were treated more leniently weren't doing it with the same official. THAT is the difference. It has nothing to do with race or gender, as Williams tried to portray it.

This will remain the difference between Jon Stewart and everyone else. I think in this kind of situation, jon was more likely to berate the actions of people he liked. Of course he had his biases, but I feel he would have given a much more in-depth and human response to this incident. We miss U Jon.

Serena was at fault here. Carlos Ramos is clearly the victim here. Think of it this way. Had it been a woman umpire and a male player would you draw the same conclusion? Ramos did his job. He did his job earlier this year when he penalized Djokovic for bouncing his racket (He didn't even break the racket). To people who are saying he should have offered soft warnings, I say this. The rulebook has a provision for soft warnings. That's why there are 3 stages of violations. The 1st one a warning, the 2nd one a warning and a point, and the 3rd one a game point. The punishment for consecutive violations get progressively harsh, which I think is fair. Her coach admitted to coaching her from the stands so she got the 1st warning. The 2nd warning and a point loss she got for breaking her racket, which again was a fair call. Now, the 3rd violation. Ramos could have announced that when Serena said "You are never going to be on my court ever again" (That's a threat, she is actually threatening to jeoperdize his career). He didn't. He could have awarded the 3rd violation when she said you are a "liar". He didn't. He could have done that when she agressively demanded that he apologized. He didn't. He announced the 3rd violation and the game when she called him a "thief". That's completely fair and for him to be painted a sexist for doing his job is a clear example of how some people twist these very serious words to their advantage.

I won't agree with you on this. Trevor. Serena was wrong

Trevor is wrong this time. Maybe he didn't researched well. He's trying hard to push this wrong thinking of his to people's minds also to those sitting there. They're not entitled to speak freely else he'd have faced the scene just comment section over her.

There was no sexism here! The ones who know and love tennis know this

Serena took her frustrations of being beat by Osaka out on the chair umpire. She insulted him and called him names. Men do in fact get penalized for what they say to the chair umpires and how they behave on court. Trevor, you're getting it wrong. The men do get penalized and punished. There is no double standard in tennis. Please don't jump on this bandwagon of false sexism.

She behaved badly. End of story. What is the matter with you Trevor?

Wow, I never thought I will disagree with Trevor. This is the one!!

For an actual breakdown of the events and not a bad and a biased view on the issue watch absolutely anything other than this.

I can't believe they won't let my tutor help me during my exams. I mean tutor are supposed to tutor right. That's what they are there for.

Tennis is an individual sport, which is about mentality as much as physicality. You have to be on your own, figuring out ways to get out of troubles, ways to tear down and attack the weakness of your opponent. On court, all by yourself. It’s the beauty of the game. Also, Federer once said if coaching is allowed, rich players who have more financial ability can hire better coach, which is unfair. And Federer is the richest of them all...

That umpire is actually consistent with being extremely strict and is hated by many top pros for it. All of the things she did were rules violations; and while they usually are not called by MOST umpires, it wasn't out of character for this one to make calls.

Why was his "Tempers flaring" so accurate omg

The thing about tennis in coaching is that you cannot coach MID-MATCH as it gives players a unfair advantage as the coach gets a broader strategic view of things and can shift match into favor not using the players own intuition. This does not mean the coach does not coach outside of matches hence why they are called coaches. Also if you have played tennis having a coach give the other team strategy is seemingly unfair as they can figure people out easily most of the time. Also tennis has a certain ettiquite in which I sometimes interfere with but smashing a racquet is the epitome of poor class in the sport, which made it seem she actually lost it. Also guys do get penalized just as women do, racquet abuse is a regular penalty. And lastly Osaka was overshadowed by Serenas controversy in her first grandslam which is just sad, as we don't know if she was crying because of grief or happiness at times.

US OPEN 2018 FINES FOR CODE VIOLATION Men - 23 Women - 9 ( including 3 given to Serena) People should know when not to cry " Wolfffff....!!" 🙄

comparing team sports to individual? hmmm

Excellent point. Coaches coach not the same as giving answers on a test. Special people will try to find any reason to dislike this guy. Shameful. He wasn't saying she was right in her actions. He simply made the argument that in most SPORTS "tantrums", arguing, or fighting sometimes does not hurt the player in the same way like tennis. Why is that when this game gets just as passionate?

sigh... late night show hosts always seem to be so intelligent until they start talking about something you're really familiar with...

- In 2017 at the French Open, Novak Djokovic was given a fault on his serve by Carlos Ramos for time violations. He then received a code violation for unsportsmanlike conduct after yelling. - In 2018 at Wimbledon, Ramos gave Djokovic a code violation for slamming his racquet into the ground. Djokovic later complained about a double standard from Ramos, who did not penalize Kei Nishikori for something similar. - In 2017 at the French Open, Ramos called a time violation on Rafael Nadal. Nadal thought the call was selectively enforced and said he was not satisfied with it. - In 2016 at the French Open, Ramos called Nick Kyrgios for a code violation for yelling at a towel boy. Kyrgios accused Ramos of having a double standard and was described as “mystified” by the penalty. - In August 2016 at the Olympics, Ramos called Andy Murray for a code violation for saying “stupid umpiring.” - In July 2017, Ramos called Andy Murray for a time violation for playing too slowly. Murray acknowledged he had been warned before receiving the violation but was still bothered by it. Sexism intensifies.

And with this all my respect for Trevor is gone.

But in this particular case of Carlos Ramos he has punished both Rafael Nadal and Djokovic and they feel it was targeted at them and later complaint to the tennis federation , and it was pointed out on first take by Stephen a Smith. The moment she lost the argument when she pulled out the gender card where he didn't violate her rights as a woman cuz he did the same to men.

From my perspective, honestly she was in the wrong. She got a minor penalty for her coach using signals, which he admitted to later. It doesn't matter if she looked or not, it's still against the rules, and it was a very minor penalty. Smashing your racket into the ground is where the first big penalty came into play; you don't do that. Other men have done it, and guess what, got the same penalty. People all the time yell and treat the officials/refs like crap. But it came off to where instead of using profanity she instead called him a liar and a thief. He literally was letting her treat him like shit and piss and moan until she said those things and had enough of it, and penalized her for it. This is THE strictest umpire in the sport who is also well respected and you treated him like crap and called him a thief and a liar... What exactly did you expect though?

This is the most biased bit trevor has ever done!!!

Pewdiepie had better coverage of this issue than you, how embarrassing

Why Trevor, why? Why do you have to sugarcoat it, just tell it how it is. She was in the wrong and her response was unacceptable. Pulling out the sexist card and mother card I was surprised she didn't use the black card. What pissed me off is that she had the nerve to say, she did what she did because she's defending women's rights. Like how is that even relevant here, she broke the rules plain and simple. She could've handle it in a more reasonable and matured way, but because of her actions, she not only embarrassed and showed her true colors, but she also stole Osaka's moment.

The moment when Trevor presents altertative facts....

This is just stupid You can argue that the rules are wrong, but you can't argue the referee was wrong, because he wasn't Serena was the one who was completely wrongful and disrespectful, and to make matters worse you're turning this into a sexist issue, something that is not true at all. The same referee, considered one of the best for more than a decade, applied the same ruling with Men in several other matches

The hate for Serena is real, Serena has come from such humble beginnings to reach where she is in the game of Tennis. She is One of the Players who has done very well, and her career Journey is well documented.

I don't agree. You can't compare tennis to football or to basketball. First of all, you're a single player. Second of all, every sport has its own rules. And if you would have informed yourself you would have known that in tennis you have to behave and keep calm. Players who break things are considered to be disrespectful. There are certain rules you have to respect. And most importantly, you have to accept when your opponent plays better. You can't say that because in judo, players enter the scene by bowing down, football players have to bow down too before every game. Sometimes we should let the experts do their job without analyzing every single move or decision.

This kind of behavior should not be accepted whether its McEnroe or Williams, Lebron or whoever. When soccer players bounce or smash the football in protest, they receive a yellow card, no matter their race or gender. When they threaten the referee they get a red card and are fined. What people should be really talking about is how well Osaka played! She deserves the win.

What many people are inaccurately doing, including you Trevor Noah, is comparing Serena’s third violation to men’s first violation. A first violation, regardless of what it is (verbal abuse, racket throwing, illegal coaching), is only a warning. Any violation after that is essentially a repeat offender and thus given a harsher sentence. So comparing Serena’s third violation, which any third violation is harsh, to men’s first violation is illogical. Love your show but those that are wanting gender equality, including myself, probably should not hang their hat on this incident as an example. Furthermore, if you look at Ramos, the umpire, he has a history (i.e. consistent) of meticulously following the rules.

Trevor, you have thrown away your integrity for money. It's sad. Breaking the rules of a sport is not ok. You can spin it anyway you like.

Trevor defended a very unprofessional behavior of Serena. 🙄🤪