Richard Ings, who worked as ATP rules and competition chief for years, thinks Carlos Ramos actioned the way he had to during the US Open final between Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka. 'When coaches and players come out and threaten the employment of umpires then it falls to the governing bodies to defend those officials just doing their job.

Carlos Ramos was doing his job. And doing it well in my extremely experienced opinion.' Ings also revealed an interesting thing: 'Umpiring is so easy from the top of the grand stand. I can also confirm that Carlos Ramos earned his pay in that match.

His pay? US$450 which is the daily rate all USTA umpires are paid.' The former world No. 1 Lindsay Davenport said: 'Carlos Ramos is a great umpire but he never tried to diffuse the situation with Serena. In that whole tirade he could have easily said, ‘Serena, a couple more words here and you’re going to get a game here’.

A lot of times you can give soft warnings for coaching as well to kind of warn the player. There’s a lot of things he could have done along the way to maybe not get to the point where it was game [violation] and really change the whole narrative of this match.

Also, how many times do coaches actually get warnings for coaching? You very rarely see it. We’ve never really seen it from Serena before. Interesting in his [Mouratoglou] interview post-match. Mouratoglou said yes I was coaching, I’ll admit to it’.

Then he got a little tacky when he accused all coaches… he kind of went off the rails a little bit but he definitely copped to it that it always happens. The chair umpires almost never call it so to call it in a Grand Slam final against a player that’s never really had it before… it just seemed odd.' ALSO READ: Mouratoglou: 'I coached, but also Toni Nadal, Bajin coached on every point'