Serena Williams Rinsed A Reporter Who Called Her Aus Open Match “Scrappy”

Serena Williams is the queen of clapping back to reporters who underestimate her greatness.

When a journalist at Wimbledon last year called her “one of the greatest female athletes of all time,” she balked, and said she’d prefer the phrase, “one of the greatest athletes of all time.” 

The tennis star has 22 Grand Slam singles titles to her name. She can demand as she pleases.

Yesterday, that was to demand an apology from a reporter at the Australian Open who called her performance against current world No. 61 (and former world No. 5) Lucie Safarova “scrappy”.

The reporter was asking about her 23 unenforced errors during the match, which saw Williams sail past Safarova in the second round of the Australian Open 6–3 6–4.

“I think that’s a very negative thing to say,” said Williams. “Are you serious?”

“Just my observation,” he retorted.


“Well, you should have been out there,”
she said. “That wasn’t very kind. You should apologise. Do you want to apologise?”

“I do. I’m sorry,” he said.

“Thank you very much,” she said, before explaining just why her performance was good and not in the least bit “scrappy”.

“That was a great performance. I played well. She’s a former top-10 player. The last time we played together was in the finals of a Grand Slam.

“You know, it’s not an easy match. She’s a really good player. You have to go for more, which obviously makes a few more errors.

“So yeah, I think it was overall a really good match, on both of our ends.”

Game, set, match.

Photo: Australian Open TV.

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