{"id":57951,"date":"2018-09-11T15:56:53","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T13:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/09\/11\/tennis-umpires-consider-forming-union-following-serena-williams-storm\/"},"modified":"2018-09-11T15:56:53","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T13:56:53","slug":"tennis-umpires-consider-forming-union-following-serena-williams-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=57951","title":{"rendered":"Tennis umpires consider forming union following Serena Williams storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Anger amongst officials over lack of support for Carlos Ramos\u2022 ITF took almost 48 hours to defend women\u2019s final umpireTop tennis umpires are considering forming a union because they believe Carlos Ramos was \u201chung out to dry\u201d by the authorities during and after the US Open women\u2019s final despite upholding the rules in sanctioning Serena Williams.Many officials were also left angry with the fact that the International Tennis Federation took nearly 48 hours to defend Ramos, on Monday afternoon, by which time the Women\u2019s Tennis Association (WTA) and United States Tennis Association (USTA) had supported Williams\u2019 claims of sexism after she was given a game penalty for her behaviour during her defeat by Naomi Osaka. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2018\/sep\/11\/tennis-umpires-union-serena-williams-us-open-final-carlos-ramos\" target=\"_blank\">Tennis umpires consider forming union following Serena Williams storm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Anger amongst officials over lack of support for Carlos Ramos\u2022 ITF took almost 48 hours to defend women\u2019s final umpireTop tennis umpires are considering forming a union because they believe Carlos Ramos was \u201chung out to dry\u201d by the authorities during and after the US Open women\u2019s final despite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}