ROMANIA’S NASTASE ISN’T BACKING DOWN

Ilie Nastase was unrepentant after being suspended from the Fed Cup for verbally abusing the British team and the referee during a playoff. Nastase, the Romania captain, also didn’t think his remarks about the unborn child of women’s No. 1 player Serena Williams were racist. “I want to know what word I used is racist?” he said to the Associated Press by phone. ESPN reported that Nastase was heard to say, “Let’s see what color it has. Chocolate with milk?” at a news conference Saturday. Williams’ fiancé, Alexis Ohanian, is white. Nastase was suspended from the Fed Cup on Sunday, a day after he hurled expletives at British player Johanna Konta, Britain captain Anne Keothavong and the umpire. Williams responded to Nastase with a post on Instagram: “It disappoints me to know we live in a society where people like Ilie Nastase can make such racist comments towards myself and unborn child, and sexist comments against my peers. ... I have said it once and I’ll say it again, this world has come so far but yet we have so much further to go.”