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American tennis star Danielle Collins accuses cameraman of 'wildly inappropriate' behavior

American tennis player Danielle Collins had some choice words for the cameraman during her Internationaux de Strasbourg match against Emma Raducanu on Wednesday afternoon.

Collins was in the middle of a changeover when she felt the cameraman’s hovering was a bit too close for comfort in the middle of the third and defining set. She got off the bench and made the point clear.

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"I need to get water. We’re on a changeover. You don’t need to be that close to me, and you don’t need to be on top of Emma. It’s wildly inappropriate," Collins said. "It’s not that difficult to give space."

The camera was kept on Collins as she filled up her water bottle with Raducanu in the shot to the right.

Collins ended up winning the match 4-6, 6-1, 6-3, and is set to take on Anna Kalinskaya in the quarterfinals of the tournament.

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Raducanu weighed in on what she heard from Collins during her outburst.

"I was standing up because I did not want to sit down in the third set because of my back," Raducanu said, via The Tennis Gazette. "I was staying standing because it was a bit more comfortable, and then she came to fill her bottle up and was just saying how the cameraman was really close and felt a bit inappropriate, but that is all she was saying."

The two are preparing for the French Open later this month.

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Ex-ESPN NFL reporter adds to chorus of Jake Tapper criticism over book on Biden decline

Former ESPN NFL reporter Ed Werder ripped CNN broadcaster Jake Tapper as he promoted his new book, "Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again," and acknowledged "humility" in past coverage of former President Joe Biden.

Tapper, and co-author Alex Thompson, have received criticism about the cover-up of the former president’s decline while he was in office. Tapper has been on multiple shows admitting to failures in how the reporting on Biden’s health was done.

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Werder, the longtime ESPN journalist, offered his two cents in a post on Wednesday.

"He sold his credibility as a journalist for access to power - and now expects to profit from the very audience to whom he lied," Werder wrote on X.

Werder was far from the only journalist or pundit who has called out the coverage.

Jon Stewart, Charlamagne Tha God, and "The View" hosts Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg all made their feelings known about the book and the coverage around it. Some were specifically scolding CNN for promoting it, while some "View" pundits wondered whether Tapper would write a book about President Donald Trump’s decline.

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MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski, a noted Biden supporter, pushed back on the authors over the notion of a "cover-up" while speaking to Tapper and Thompson on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." She questioned the notion of a "cover-up."

Naomi Biden also defended her grandfather in a post on X upon the book’s release.

"Just read a copy of this silly book, and if anyone is curious for a review from someone who lived it first-hand: this book is political fairy smut for the permanent, professional chattering class. The ones who rarely enter the arena, but profit from the spectacle of those that do. Put simply, it amounts to a bunch of unoriginal, uninspired lies written by irresponsible self promoting journalists out to make a quick buck," she wrote.

Fox News' Hanna Panreck contributed to this report.

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