[Inglewood Jack]

an article (written by a woman which shouldn't matter but sadly it does) that sums up what many of us here feel...and of course is about to endure the wrath of a thousand angry comments.

http://www.tennis.com/pro-game/2018/...lations/76875/

When Osaka was eight years old, she wrote a report about Serena Williams. The young girl, born in Japan but raised in Miami, painstakingly colored in the project and then told her third-grade classmates, “I want to be like her.”

After Saturday night, maybe not so much.

Serena has spent a great deal of time over the last several months espousing what she has learned by being a mother. One of the mandates of motherhood is counting to 10 and giving our children the opportunity to calm down from a temper tantrum. We tell them there will be consequences for their actions, like a time out.

Perhaps Serena needed a time out Saturday night. Instead, when she was asked about the teachable moment she would tell her daughter one day, her response was that you have to stand up for what you believe in. What she should have fought for was regaining her own composure and grace. She is, after all, one of the great ambassadors of our sport. Women all over the world, especially mothers, look up to her. What a pity if one bad moment could make them now look down on her.