Serena Williams

Naomi Osaka said Serena Williams’s row with the umpire during the US Open final had not altered her feelings about winning a Grand Slam.

The altercation happened during Saturday’s U. Open final.

The cartoon has been condemned as racist by civil rights leaders, celebrities and fans.

The International Tennis Federation has come out in support of chair umpire Carlos Ramos in the wake of Serena Williams' US Open final defeat.

She also said he treated her differently than male players during her loss to Naomi Osaka.

Williams was handed three code violations — and docked a point and then a game — in her 6-2, 6-4 loss to Naomi Osaka in the Flushing Meadows final

Serena Williams has been fined a total of $17,000 for her three code violations during the US Open Final.

Naomi Osaka became the first Japanese to win a Grand Slam singles title on Saturday as her idol Serena Williams angrily imploded, calling the chair umpire in the US Open final "a thief".

She was the winner in 1999, 2002, 2008, 2012, 2013 and 2014

Serena Williams said she had cleared a major hurdle in her comeback after beating Karolina Pliskova 6-4, 6-3 to reach her 13th US Open semifinal.

Serena Williams shrugged off a shaky start to beat Czech Karolina Pliskova 6-4, 6-3 to make the US Open semi-finals for the 12th time in her stellar tennis career.

More trophies and children are hopefully in Serena Williams’s future, said tennis’s most famous working mother on Sunday, adding that she appreciated how difficult it is to raise both.

Alexis Ohanian shared a snap of his daughter with his wife and professional tennis player, Serena Williams, on Instagram for the girl’s first birthday Saturday.

The six-time champion, playing not as sharp as when she played her sister Venus on Friday, raced through the first set with a bagel, but her performance dipped in the second set as she lost 4-6.

The 23 Grand Slam winner was literally on fire against her sister, merciless in her blistering returns and making Venus look more like her apprentice

The superstar sisters' third-round clash is their earliest Grand Slam meeting in 20 years - since Venus beat her younger sister in the second round of the 1998 Australian Open in their first career meeting.

Williams sent down 13 aces and 30 winners to record her second consecutive straight sets victory at Flushing Meadows.

Serena Williams took the first cautious step towards a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam title with a 6-4 6-0 first-round win over Magda Linette on Monday as an excited US Open crowd welcomed the new tennis mother back to the ‘Big Apple’.

Serena Williams said Saturday she doesn’t have a problem with the French Open’s new dress code, which would bar her from wearing the skin-tight “catsuit” she donned for her opening match at the event earlier this year.

Sloane Stephens will be defending her title at the US Open but all eyes will be on Serena Williams over the coming two weeks as the six-times champion attempts to win her first Grand Slam title since becoming a mother.