--- title: Athletes and Celebrities Support Serena Williams After U.S. Open description: There were strong reactions from athletes on social media who were outraged by the way the tennis legend was treated by an umpire at the U.S. Open final. canonical: https://time.com/5391054/serena-williams-us-open-athlete-reaction/ author: Alix Langone article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-09-09T17:22:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T21:23:15.994Z article:section: Sports og:title: Billie Jean King, Nicki Minaj and More Show Support for Serena Williams After Controversial U.S. Open og:description: There were strong reactions from athletes on social media who were outraged by the way the tennis legend was treated by an umpire at the U.S. Open final. og:url: https://time.com/5391054/serena-williams-us-open-athlete-reaction/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5b2dc87ccb114611/698939c67cdbac0a61d5de32/serena-williams-us-open-support-reactions.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 2018 US Open - Day 13 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Billie Jean King, Nicki Minaj and More Show Support for Serena Williams After Controversial U.S. Open twitter:description: There were strong reactions from athletes on social media who were outraged by the way the tennis legend was treated by an umpire at the U.S. Open final. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5b2dc87ccb114611/698939c67cdbac0a61d5de32/serena-williams-us-open-support-reactions.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Billie Jean King, Nicki Minaj and More Show Support for Serena Williams After Controversial U.S. Open > Sponsored content. 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Serena Williams (R) of the United States comforts Naomi Osaka (L) of Japan after Osaka won the Women's Singles finals match on Day Thirteen of the 2018 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 8, 2018 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City.Chris Trotman - USTA/Getty Images by [Alix Langone](https://time.com/author/alix-langone/) ## Alix Langone Sep 9, 2018 5:22 PM UTC Athletes and celebrities alike have shown support for Serena Williams on social media [after an umpire gave her multiple violations](http://time.com/5390959/us-open-serena-williams-naomi/) during Saturday’s U.S. Open final. They have called out his actions as being sexist, racist and just plain inappropriate at such a crucial point in a championship match. Famous athletes, like tennis legend Billie Jean King, expressed dismay at umpire Carlos Ramos’ treatment of Williams on Twitter, writing that female players are often treated differently than male players in all kinds of sports. “When a woman is emotional, she’s ‘hysterical’ and she’s penalized for it,” King tweeted. “When a man does the same, he’s ‘outspoken’ and there are no repercussions.” > [](https://twitter.com/BillieJeanKing/status/1038613108976168960) > [](https://twitter.com/BillieJeanKing/status/1038613218296569856) Ramos issued three violations against Williams — [which will cost the tennis star $17,000](https://apnews.com/0e883e33af0047bcbbe894a086c6ab14?utm%5Fcampaign=SocialFlow&utm%5Fsource=Twitter&utm%5Fmedium=AP) — towards the end of the U.S. open final, which she lost to 20-year-old Naomi Osaka. The violations were for coaching (supposedly Ramos saw Williams’ coach signaling to her during a game), breaking her racket and behavior Romas deemed “verbal abuse.” Many believe his violations impacted the ultimate outcome of the championship match. His controversial calls were not only a blow to Williams’ legacy — who would have tied Margaret Court’s all-time record of 24 Grand Slam titles — but also cast a shadow over Osaka’s win, which should have been a historic moment for the young athlete. She is the first Japanese player to win the U.S. Open. Public figures on social media also pointed out that umpires [have given warnings](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJm%5FoYcDMkM), or no violations at all, to male players who have argued similarly in the past. > [](https://twitter.com/RealJayWilliams/status/1038804869556121600) > [](https://twitter.com/JRBlake/status/1038619979938189313) > [](https://twitter.com/andyroddick/status/1038541308724436997) Others championed the camaraderie between the two players and the example of support that was shown. > [](https://twitter.com/JanelleMonae/status/1038815329554759681) > [](https://twitter.com/RobinRoberts/status/1038819314353283075) Others widely shared [Sally Jenkin’s op-ed in the Washington _Post_](https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/tennis/at-us-open-power-of-serena-williams-and-naomi-osaka-is-overshadowed-by-an-umpires-power-play/2018/09/08/edbf46c8-b3b4-11e8-a20b-5f4f84429666%5Fstory.html?utm%5Fterm=.4e670f2e2cb1), in which she said that the umpire “abused his authority.” “Ramos took what began as a minor infraction and turned it into one of the nastiest and most emotional controversies in the history of tennis, all because he couldn’t take a woman speaking sharply to him,” wrote Jenkins. “Male players have sworn and cursed at the top of their lungs, hurled and blasted their equipment into shards, and never been penalized as Williams was in the second set of the U.S. Open final.” > [](https://twitter.com/PreetBharara/status/1038642121958404097) > [](https://twitter.com/PadmaLakshmi/status/1038655586370387968) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5391054/serena-williams-us-open-athlete-reaction/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5391054/serena-williams-us-open-athlete-reaction/"},"headline":"Billie Jean King, Nicki Minaj and More Show Support for Serena Williams After Controversial U.S. Open","datePublished":"2018-09-09T17:22:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T21:23:15.994Z","description":"Social media erupted with support for Williams and disdain for the umpire","url":"https://time.com/5391054/serena-williams-us-open-athlete-reaction/","keywords":["U.S.","onetime","Sports"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5b2dc87ccb114611/698939c67cdbac0a61d5de32/serena-williams-us-open-support-reactions.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alix Langone","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alix-langone/"}],"articleSection":"Sports","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5b2dc87ccb114611/698939c67cdbac0a61d5de32/serena-williams-us-open-support-reactions.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2018 US Open - Day 13","caption":"2018 US Open, Osaka and WIlliams","creditText":"Chris Trotman - USTA/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/sports/","name":"Sports"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5391054/serena-williams-us-open-athlete-reaction/","name":"Billie Jean King, Nicki Minaj and More Show Support for Serena Williams After Controversial U.S. Open"}}]}] ```