Martina Navratilova, an eighteen-time Grand Slam singles champion, slammed Serena Williams’ outburst during the U.S. Open final defeat, writing for the New York Times that she had behavior “that no one should be engaging in on the court.”
“[W]e cannot measure ourselves by what we think we should also be able to get away with,” she said. She then noted: “There have been many times when I was playing that I wanted to break my racket into a thousand pieces. Then I thought about the kids watching. And I grudgingly held on to that racket.”
