2021 Tennis

[Buzzo]

Good start Delpo. Stays on serve, but he is having some success on Novaks serve.

Crowd well behind him which will get on Novaks nerves big time.

[Buzzo]

Delpo throws away 40-0 and within moments its first set Novak

6-3.

[Buzzo]

Delpos forehand is ****ing savage.

This game has been going for 15 mins

[Buzzo]

Novak has been serving for 20 mins

And holds.

4-4.

[Buzzo]

Novak morning about one of the balls.

[Buzzo]

Amazing from Novak.

Del Porto has thrown everything at him and loses the set in the TB.

Only one winner from here.

[Buzzo]

96 minutes second set

[Scratch]

Any thoughts on the Serena cartoon published in the Aussie paper? Racist and sexist, or just a bit of humour? Myself, I'm firmly on the humour side of it, its just a comedic caricature of Serena having a toddler tantrum.

I also think she has disgraced the woman's game a little, took it too far and rather than apologise, is now spouting some bull about blazing a trail for other women to be able to do the same as her...well, guess what Serena, I don't think they will be.

This isn't the first time she's had an on court meltdown, I doubt it will be the last and it's telling how very few female players (still playing) are coming forward in her defense.

[Red_Polo]

Any thoughts on the Serena cartoon published in the Aussie paper? Racist and sexist, or just a bit of humour? Myself, I'm firmly on the humour side of it, its just a comedic caricature of Serena having a toddler tantrum.

I also think she has disgraced the woman's game a little, took it too far and rather than apologise, is now spouting some bull about blazing a trail for other women to be able to do the same as her...well, guess what Serena, I don't think they will be.

This isn't the first time she's had an on court meltdown, I doubt it will be the last and it's telling how very few female players (still playing) are coming forward in her defense.

There were definitely some racist tropes in that cartoon at the very least. Unconscious bias.

[Buzzo]

There are some good articles which explain the fight Serena has had since being a little girl to get to where she is.

Even now The French Open banning her from wearing her catsuit is incredibly sexist, and that’s without going into the racism’s she has and probably still does experience.

She’s an incredible woman and athlete.

In the heat of the moment, could she have handled things better? Yes. Definitely. Could the umpire have managed the situation better given what was at stake. Yes, definitely.

Is there sexism towards woman’s tennis? Yes, definitely.

[Kenneth]

Are the two issues connected in the way she has tried to imply, probably not.

[Buzzo]

Are the two issues connected in the way she has tried to imply, probably not.

Yep, she chose the wrong moment to make the point.

I suspect there is a pent up frustration, but it definitely wasn’t the time to bring it up, nor was it relevant because the umpire was within his rights.

Ruining Osaka’s first slam is unforgivable, and she can’t even back down and apologise now.

[Kenneth]

There were definitely some racist tropes in that cartoon at the very least. Unconscious bias.

I don't think so. The trope is caricature itself. Historically, black features have been caricatured to dehumanise and ridicule. But that doesn't rule out caricature as an art form ever representing black people again. I don't think anyone could have drawn a cartoon in a caricature style and avoided the claims of racism that have been made, and I don't think a professional caricaturist has to avoid a topical story because it centred around a black person having a tantrum.

[Kenneth]

Yep, she chose the wrong moment to make the point.

I suspect there is a pent up frustration, but it definitely wasn’t the time to bring it up, nor was it relevant because the umpire was within his rights.

Ruining Osaka’s first slam is unforgivable, and she can’t even back down and apologise now.

I guess it's up to Osaka whether it's forgivable. As bad a taste as it leaves for spectators, I guess it's really an issue for the two individuals to reconcile. I expect Serena will attempt to make amends privately.

[Red_Polo]

I don't think so. The trope is caricature Historically, black features have been caricatured to dehumanise and ridicule. But that doesn't rule out caricature as an art form ever representing black people again. I don't think anyone could have drawn a cartoon in a caricature style and avoided the claims of racism that have been made, and I don't think a professional caricaturist has to avoid a topical story because it centred around a black person having a tantrum.

All of that is half-true in general, but it fails to address the cartoon itself and ignores the fact that if someone genuinely can't make a caricature of a black person without recalling Sambo or placing them in a simian pose, maybe they ought to try a little harder. The fact Osaka is depicted as a little white blonde girl says it all. I don't doubt there was no racist intent. But there's more than a smidge of unconscious bias in it.