Serena ‘saw therapist’ after US Open meltdown
July 10, 2019
12:21 am
- Apologises to Osaka
Serena Williams revealed Tuesday that she consulted a therapist after her infamous 2018 US Open final meltdown in which her bitter war of words with the umpire overshadowed Naomi Osaka’s maiden Grand Slam victory.
The American superstar was widely vilified for her New York outburst in which she branded the chair umpire a “liar” and “thief”.
She was handed a code violation for coaching,docked a point for smashing her racquet and penalised a game for verbal abuse.
“I couldn’t find peace. I started seeing a therapist,” Williams wrote in a first-person account published in US glossy magazine …
