Quoted in "Adolfo Daniel Vallejo fined $65,000 for sexist remarks at French Open/Paraguayan receives biggest fine in Roland Garros history after saying that his second-round defeat by Moise Kouame should have been umpired by a man" (London Times).
The female umpire, Ana Carvalho, in his view, did not succeed in controlling the noisy, distracting, partisan crowd.
Vallejo stands accused of sexism, but he was, it seems, accusing the spectators of sexism for not yielding to the authority of the female.
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His comments sound like permission for the crowd to voice disagreement with her calls in the future. Or any woman umpire. Why are foreign sports players such misogynists?
His fault for showing up to a tennis tournament in France and expecting something other than what should be expected…
Whiny white women story to start us off...
She's back, people. Making news of anthills and trying to bait/'base her assembled boomer boys...
Crack a door, meade? Smells like old farts in here..lol
LOL!
How else are they going to close the wage gap. We gotta make those womyn feel EQUAL.
You can say anything you want to a man.
But you get fined for saying mean things about a woman.
EQUAL I TELL YOU!
Why is it that tennis players & golfers need silence when they play? In other sports, athletes deal with crowd noise.
One problem with this is that men can track moving objects faster than women.
Our brains are just wired differently.
This might be important for an umpire in a tennis match.
The whole thing is stupid though because they use IR sensors in professional tennis now.
I was going to say the sexism is the organization issuing the fine because they assume women are not resilient enough to hear something mildly offensive about women without catching the vapors.
Come back in and stroke these boys, ann.
Their eyesight and brains are superior to yours which is why you parade out the news offerings daily and serve them up... and they sit back and stroke their genetically superior parts.
You still don't see it,huh?
Lady eyesight... I hope the tips help.
How's cliff kresge doing?
Heart still beating and he took up exercise after the heart scare instead of golf?
Dell and Kresge can't afford to lose two kids, and mason isn't the most independent man, is he? Off blog althouse from the early days was entertaining, how you coasties live
Why is it that tennis players & golfers need silence when they play? In other sports, athletes deal with crowd noise.
I think professional golfers should do their range time at TopGolf - loud music, raucous laughter, people dressed in... surprising ways attempting to "golf" wearing high heels and flip flops...
Just checking, did anybody maintain that his assertion wasn't true? Was the match unusually noisy, was the noise peaking at key disadvantageous moments? It sounds like he was fined for being sexist, not for being wrong.
"The whole thing is stupid though because they use IR sensors in professional tennis now."
The French Open still insists on visual line calling, with a check of the mark in the clay to confirm. Caspar Ruud got screwed in his match with Fonseca because of this.
How is this different than the 50-year-old DEI argument that "Black and brown people need to be policed by black and brown people who understand them"? See Rodney King. See George Floyd. See the union politics and the police leadership of every blue city in the USA.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander. In a coherent legal/moral universe.
DEIsm, as a secular religion, evolves from principles that are internally, externally, and mutually inconsistent.
One million pounds... if the umpire was trans (e.g. social). A real drag show in gender equivocation and a Learing moment in social progress with a liberal license.
A Diversity apology? A color judgment or class bigotry? Maybe, baby, a fetus... feature of DEIst allegations.
June 2, 2026 was the day I learned Roland Garros is not a tennis player.
The strong woman, hear me roar, umpire needs to be protected from the player's words by the authorities. Because equality.
Aggie said...
Just checking, did anybody maintain that his assertion wasn't true? Was the match unusually noisy, was the noise peaking at key disadvantageous moments? It sounds like he was fined for being sexist, not for being wrong.
Oh god now you have done it.
Its an opinion vapours
He didn't complain about her calls. He complained about her lack of what it takes to get the crowd to stop distracting him by rooting for his opponent. Can you picture a baseball player or an American football player with a similar complaint? No, the crowd is permitted to throw off the visiting players as much as they can. They're encouraged to. The officials do nothing about what isn't even considered a problem. Candyass tennis player. Who is he to exalt masculine power? Let *him* man up and play better tennis.
But charging him a lot of money for his little complaint is also bullshit.
Tennis.
Bleh.
Makes me think about the old line "Tennis, anyone?"
That was used in theater long ago. A stage-clearing device but also an indication of social class. It was considered funny long after everyone forgot what it meant. You never hear it anymore.
Ann, tell me you are new to sportsmanship and athletic games without telling us.
I remember when your candy ass was tiptoeing around the greens chasing the dream that if errbody was quiet enough and didn't distract him with photos and chatter, you were trotting after the next tiger woods... lol.
I guess the heart attack and lack of skill wisedyou up... you should have loudly cheered ya boy, golf etiquette be named. Youre a lod white woman who clearly can heckled and distract...
It's why we love your news nose, and portrayal of news stories after you look up the big words (in English!) that flummox your teevee brain... and you can understand the writer.
Keep on changing, you sporty gal you. We'll get you to a wnba game yet! You married a Hoosier and need to learn his hobbies and even lil white guys in Indiana are taught ball from their earliest days... he'll show ya. Like camping/shitting in a bucket. You'll cat h on...
Sore loser.
Yes, a careful reading shows he is making an accusation of sexism, not engaging in sexism himself. But still--his solution is to engage in discrimination. He embarrassed the organization.
Either we have rules and enforce them or we feminize society and its a non competitive feelz thing depending on the lady authorities' mood for the day. It's like arbitrarily reassigning a standardized university test date and time because you pity the sleepyhead boys who can't arise early on a Sunday morn and take the test when it's scheduled.,, "Let's vote kids?" Lol
Do the opposite of what ann advocates.
She's a loser, again and again and again and just buys her way out. Nothing masculine in the Cohen house, then or now. Just a lot of dangling peens, but no masculinity even from the Queen Bee...
"No, the crowd is permitted to throw off the visiting players as much as they can. They're encouraged to. The officials do nothing about what isn't even considered a problem."
Not an apt comparison. Baseball and football have crowds on the order of 50,000 at a distance from the players. One person can't throw off a player. In both tennis and golf the audiences are much smaller and very close. Even so, tennis crowds are allowed to roar and cheer during the point. They're just supposed to be quiet on the serve and not shout line calls. In the Ruud-Fonseca match someone yelled "Out!" on a shot that basically (along with a questionable call) decided the set. The players can't tell whether it's a line caller or someone in the crowd.
In baseball and football, the crowd wants the crowd noise. In tennis and golf, no one wants some idiot in the crowd determining the outcome.
Roland Garros was a WWI French fighter pilot. Quite a flashy guy.
He is noteworthy for equipping his Morane-Saulnier monoplane with a machine gun, and deflector plates on the propeller, early in the war.
There seems to be an assumption in these comments the silence in tennis is primarily for the benefit of the players but Vallejo is clearly indicating that he feels the crowd noise was disrupting the officiating of the match. I think you can draw a distinction between this and the situations where the crowd noise in a football or basketball game is meant primarily to disrupt the players. It might also have an impact on the official's penalty calls but it has little to no impact on the official scoring of the game because no amount of crowd noise will influence an official call the ball went through the hoop or (generally) crossed the goal line. In tennis the score depends entirely on the official call of whether the ball landed in or out of bounds. The influence of a partisan crowd on the officials thus likely has a greater impact on the fairness of the match to the players.
Why should anyone care what he says, let alone fine him. What a bunch of censors and gatekeepers. But that's the french. They're totalitarians at heart.
I watched the highlights on youtube. The crowd is definitely rooting for the black teenager because he's French. What's interesting is that electronic devices have more or less taken away "bad calls". There are no more McEnroe's screaming "You cant be serious" at the lines judge.
So the only thing the umpire can do is not control the crowd, which shouldn't affect the player anyway. It certainly fired up the French guy, but the other player should be unaffected.
Clay courts make for somewhat dull tennis. Some of the rallies go on forever. And all the grunting was annoying.
TR refused to let anyone take a picture of him playing Tennis. He thought it would make him look like a sissy.
Althouse said...Candyass tennis player. Who is he to exalt masculine power? Let *him* man up and play better tennis.
There is a certain level of behavior expected from the crowd at a PGA Tour event, no matter who you are rooting for. Football, baseball, basketball, etc... have home fields/courts. A golf course and tennis court, especially, in major tournaments are supposed to be neutral ground.
Break one of the MANY rules of decorum at the Masters, and they will ban you for life.
What's interesting is that electronic devices have more or less taken away "bad calls". There are no more McEnroe's screaming "You cant be serious" at the lines judge.
As someone mentioned above, the French Open still uses live linespeople to make the in and out calls, and does not offer players the opportunity to challenge a call and look to the Hawk-Eye - they do not have a Hawk-Eye installed. The sole appeal is to request the chair umpire to reverse the call.
Waze is better than garmin for long distances
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