Yet they always continue to do it. She's big money, I guess, and they know that she can't handle personal criticism so they just fawn and fawn.
Incidentally, the assumption is that she wouldn't have received the game penalty if she was a man because men say that stuff all the time and don't get game penalties. Which may be, but if so, it's a problem on the men's side in terms of handing out penalties more often, not of allowing this sort of behaviour. Half of this would get you tossed from an MLB game, and I'm not sure why Tennis should have more relaxed standards for yelling at the officials. Yeah, they're wrong sometimes. You're just going to have to live with that and not carry on again and again for hours.
To characterize it as sexism - as a referee who won't put up with a woman getting in his face - is, frankly, libelous.
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