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She is my hero, my mentor, my great friend. a lot of theeds people who are weighing in saying double standard, this is not the hill you die on. >> what about the moment when the two women were standing next to each other and the crowd was booing and serena put her arm around naomi and said please top booing. >> she created that environment. >> but in that moment. at the end, think about what that was for those two women in sport, extraordinary. >> i do think, i take issue with the word bully a l...

Match. they always happen at the fourth major. is the end of the year. theres a lot of milestone things going on. she was trying to time it with 24 majors. this is a big, big deal for her. the tension got to her. the pressure got to her. im sorry it ended that way. people are pointing fingers at carlos ramos. people are saying he should have gave her a soft warning. you do that at the beginning of the match, not the thick of the match. i was calling a match for a former u.s. open champion when t...

>> he calls them as he sees them. this guy is a very, very respected chair umpire, stephanie. he has been doing them for decades, big matches for decades. this is not andy griffeth let himself in and out of the prison cell. serena should have known that. she is often beyond her best. at her very worst, as she was on this night, she acts like a bully. you make a career covering bullies. this is what you do for a living. you know what happens. you cannot talk to them or reason with them. you know?...

Situation. this is her moment. i think that, i wish we had a black woman here. i think one of the elements here is that the emotional labor is always on the woman. always on the woman of color. that scene was not going to come back under control unless serena williams did the work and she stepped up. >> osaka is a woman of color. >> absolutely. >> look at this kid. everything she ever dreamed of became a nightmare scenario instead. i cannot believe the grace, the elegant way osaka handled this m...

Unwarranted. >> if he gives me a thumbs up, hes telling me to come on. we dont have any code and i understand why you may have thought that was coaching. im telling you its not. i dont cheat to win. lose. i thought id let you know. >> it escalated from there. two other code violations followed for serena, one for slamming her racket and other for calling the umpire a thief. it ultimately ended with an apologetic osaka accepting a trophy from her idol and opponent. mary is a sports reporter and m...

Of them. he is a strict task master of a guy. i have seen him call out for illegal coaching. you dont mess with this guy. serena was, she just, totally, she lost the plot. she lost the arguments, lost the match and poisoning the atmosphere for this great kid, this 20-year-old, naomi osaka. >> do you agree? >> i think theres a double standard. i have called far fewer tennis matches than mary, but video surfacing this weekend of ramos not calling similar penalties against djokovic and murray. >> c...