Quote Originally Posted by limitles View Post
Quote Originally Posted by peter mcneil View Post

It was hilarious he admitted to cheating. You're wrong that it takes two to cheat. The rules are clear, a player's box cannot coach and they know this. If Serena just accepted the warning and got over it none of this would have happened. But she didn't, she threw a spaz.

Nadal has received multiple coaching warnings. He doesn't even argue, just gets back to his routine and down to the business or competing. Why didn't Serena do the same? Because she was losing and is a horrible poor sport.

FTR I don't care if any rules were broken. At this level, how much difference could it make? Not allowing a coach to coach is silly.

Are you're saying the coach was sending signals and Serena had no idea this was happening? Because that's the only way it would not take two to cheat/break the rules. And if he was sending signals and Serena was unaware of this then she had a right to be upset and should fire that coach a.s.a.p. Which means I am correct. It takes two to cheat in this instance.
You're talking about something different. For the cheat to be effective she would have to see what he was doing, maybe she did anyway? It's also seems certain that he would have kept coaching until she saw unless she was warned for it. But that's not the rule, the rule is clear and to be fair to Osaka it must be implemented when it's caught. The player's box can't coach. Serena wouldn't have received any further penalties if she just shut up and played on. But she was losing, she is a poor sport and she threw a fit. Once again, she isn't the first player to get a warning for coaching, it happens plenty to men and women.