What Happened With Novak Djokovic

As I’m sure you’ve heard by now, Novak Djokovic was defaulted from the US Open yesterday because he hit a lineswoman with a tennis ball.

Almost immediately, many people said the call was too harsh, he should’ve just lost a point or a game, blah blah blah. Now if you watch the video of what happened, it’s clear Novak should have been able to see the lineswoman standing there in his peripheral vision when he hit the ball. The ball person was nowhere near where he directed the ball. The man is the top-seeded male tennis player in the world, you’re gonna tell me he doesn’t know how to aim a tennis ball??

To be clear, I’m not saying Novak hit the woman on purpose. Not at all. I’m saying he acted in a reckless, careless manner because he was mad and he deserved to reap the consequence of his reckless, careless action.

A comment on ESPN’s tweet about the incident said, “If Serena did this you’d be lit up.” I have to say when I saw what happened, one of my first thoughts was how the press and fans would’ve reacted if Serena Williams had done this. It wouldn’t have been pretty, trust me. So I responded to this tweet by saying, “My literal first thought. If she had done this, people would be saying she should never be allowed to play tennis again.”

And let me tell you, the colonizers got in their feelings about this tweet. I got responses…