Serena Williams is calling out ‘sexism’ in Tennis, after getting into a heated conversation with the umpire during her Match against Japan’s Naomi Osaka. This is the latest controversy involving the tennis superstar in recent months. On Saturday, in a Grand Slam Showdown what was supposed to be a dream like matchup for Osaka and her idol (Serena Williams) spun out of control after Williams was handed code violations that she believes were unfair. In which both players ended with tears, for different reasoning. The U.S. Open hit Williams for three violations with fines totaling up to $17,000 , the U.S. Tennis Association said Sunday. Umpire for Carlos Ramos, first gave Williams a code violation warning for coaching after he ruled that her coach, Patrick Mouratoglou, gave her hand signals from the stands. Then she got a point penalty for smashing her racket, followed by a game penalty for verbal abuse after she confronted the umpire.

”You stole a point from me and you are a thief,” Williams told Ramos prompting the game penalty ruling. “He’s never taken a game from a man because they said ‘thief.’ For me it blows my mind. But I’m going to continue to fight for women,” Williams said. Billie Jean King, a tennis legend and equal rights advocate, agreed with her. “When a woman is emotional, she’s “hysterical” and she’s penalized for it. When a man does the same, he’s “outspoken” & and there are no repercussions. Thank you, Serena Williams, for calling out this double standard. More voices are needed to do the same,” King tweeted. Williams isn’t the only tennis player to find herself at the center of a gender-focused controversy. French tennis player Alize Cornet received a code violation a few weeks ago for briefly taking off her shirt on the court, after realizing she had it on the wrong way. This became a bitter sweet win for Naomi Osaka when her first ever Grand Slam Championship ended in ‘Boo’s’ from the crowd. “I felt a little bit sad because I wasn’t really sure if [the crowd] were booing at me or if it wasn’t the outcome that they wanted,” said Osaka during her interview with NBC’s Today. “I also could sympathise because I’ve been a fan of Serena my whole life. And I knew how badly the crowd wanted her to win, I don’t know, I was just really emotional up there.”