IT IS SERENA WILLIAMS WHO OWES AN APOLOGY TO UMPIRE CARLOS RAMOS: “I should know, as the memories and scars of my own welcome-to-the-job match are fresh even more than 30 years later. It happened at the 1987 US Open. I was the chair umpire for the fourth-round stadium court match between John McEnroe and Slobodan Zivojinovic where I issued a warning, point penalty and a game penalty against McEnroe.”