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Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's Sports Podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of September 10th, 2018.

On this week's show, the New Yorkers Louisa Thomas will join us to talk about what happened in the 2018

U.S. Open Final between Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka and how we should think about the

confrontation between Williams and chair umpire Carlos Ramos. Our slate colleague Derek Johnson

will also join the program to help us review LeBron James' new HBO series, The Shop.

Stefan Fatsis is out this week, joining me in our Washington, D.C. studio, one of my

favorite writers, Van Newkirk, the second of the Atlantic.

How's it going, Van?

I'm doing well. Thanks for having me.

Very excited to have you. I kind of want to just get right into this Serena Osaka conversation, because I know we have a lot to say.

Oh, yeah. It was a wild weekend.

On Saturday, Naomi Osaka beat Serena Williams 6264 to win the 2018 U.S. Open title, her first Grand Slam victory, and also a whole lot of other stuff happened.

Before we get into the details, I want to invite in our guest for this segment.

Louisa Thomas writes about tennis for The New Yorker and for Rackett magazine.

She's also the author of the book, Louisa, The Extraordinary Life of

Mrs. Adams. Welcome to the podcast, Louisa. Thanks for having me. Of course. Before we get to

the conversation and what we all think about what happened between Serena Williams and Carlos

Ramos, I'm going to just give the backstory. Let's get it

out of the way at the top for those that didn't see it or hear it on Saturday. In the second set,

Ramos, the chair empire, issued a code violation to Serena Williams. It's basically a warning

for getting illegal coaching because he thought her coach, Patrick Murtagaloo, was giving her hand signals from the stands.

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