"This sort of match needs to be umpired by a man... you need a lot of strength to go against the crowd." (opens in new tab)
Said the tennis player Adolfo Daniel Vallejo, who is from Paraguay and who lost in the French Open to a French teenager.Quoted in (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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