Current Event 1

The current that is going be discussed is the scandal of the tennis player Serena Williams during one

of her matches when she was playing against the Japan tennis player named Osaka.  

During the match, Serena made several code violations that she claimed was unfair.  All the  

violations that were fined in the total of $17,0000 for only three violations.  

Serena Williams ended up calling the umpire Carlos Ramos for being sexist. Like it was mentioned  

, she was fined 3 violations, the first being for the warning for coaching, the second being for 

smashing her own racket following a game penalty for verbal abuse.  The umpire according to 

Williams treated her harshly than the male tennis players , she then decided to host a press 

conference to double down on her earlier on court tirade.  At the media conference, Serena 

Williams declared “ 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’.” From this event 

we can see that with the case that the media did not focus on the results of the match but on the  

Serena Williams fight with the umpire. She made a point saying that this would never happen to  

male tennis players as the males are still considered to be dominate in the sports and superior to  

women . This is still a huge issue in the sports as the media focus on the male winning trophies  

and on their achievements , some issues are being solved but some of them still remain. There  

were many more scandals involving the top female tennis players as the media focused on the  

way they dressed for the match. Many female tennis players supported Williams and backed her  

up like for example the two times Australian Champion Victoria Azarenka sided by Williams by 

making a statement on the social media platform Twitter saying : If it was men’s match, this 

 wouldn’t happen like this. It just wouldn’t”  

This event relates to the problem of media and women’s sport because on how the media  

portray the women , it mostly focuses on the women’s clothing and on the scandals while  

giving the male more coverage and more respect that they do for the women in general.  

 

 

References  

Press, A. G. (2018, September 09). Serena Williams accuses umpire of sexism and vows to ‘fight for women’. Retrieved December 6, 2018, from https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/sep/09/serena-williams-accuses-officials-of-sexism-and-vows-to-fight-for-women  

 

Chavez, N. (2018, September 10). Serena Williams is calling out sexism in tennis. Here’s why. Retrieved December 6, 2018, from https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/09/us/serena-williams-sexism-tennis-controversy/index.html