Whining Serena Williams is tennis’s Hillary Clinton

Now, at the peak of her career, Serena Clinton is ‘a walking time capsule of all the big and little injustices that have pockmarked her life.’ It’s all so unfair. No one ever proved that she did anything wrong when her directed investment in cattle futures turned $1,000 into $100,000 in a little over 10 months. Maybe she was a little imprudent when she told a lineman in 2009 ‘I swear to God I’ll take the fucking ball and shove it down your fucking throat.’ But that lost her the match point. It was so unfair. Only someone insensitive to how the rules pretend to be objective but are really stacked against marginalised groups could think that otherwise.

The world now awaits Hillary Williams’s book What Happened. Sure to be a bestseller, it will expose all the unfair reasons she lost, blame everyone else, and justify the immature, divisive, and appalling treatment of her opponent in the court of public opinion.

The deck was stacked against Naomi Osaka. She won anyway. The real inequity was the unsportsmanlike rage that greeted her victory.