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Monday, September 14, 2009 | 6:58am
Thoughts On Serena Willliams’ Outburst, Her MTV Cameo & Her New Nike Ad
A busy weekend for Ms. Williams
Serena Williams was certainly very busy this past weekend. She was surprised in her semifinal match at the US Open against unranked Kim Clijsters in a controversial ending in which her profanity laced tirade toward a line judge who called a foot fault led to her losing an additional point breaking her serve and effectively ending the match. I’m saying? Did heads forget she’s from Compton? I know this is Tennis but she’s still gotta have a little gully. Real talk though, I can’t help but believe that the point was deducted because the line judge was intimidated. That seems to happen to people when confronted by black people. SMH.
But realizing her trophy case was fully stocked anyway, she shook off the haters and dropped some venom at last night’s MTV awards. While introducing Pink’s performance of ‘Sober’, Serena through a quick dagger.
“Because she will be flying high above the stage, she won’t have to worry about stepping over any lines.”
Good for her. Brush it off and move on. After all Serena’s got so much going for outside of tennis. Here she serves up this sexy commercial as part of Nike’s Delicious Training series (via The Rap Up.)
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She can brush it off all she wants, but I was disappointed and embarrassed for her for how she acted. A champion wins or loses with class and dignity, regardless of what the circumstances are. Serena is a role model. People are quick to talk about young people today having no respect, etc. That was a good example of that. People go to work everyday at minimum wage jobs they hate, with A*hole bosses, physical and mental issues and they get through it…for years. There is no excuse for that show she put on.
And I thought it was fitting for the match to end due to the point awarded to her opponent due to her “unsportsmanlike conduct.”
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I’m definitely not a Serena hater. I love her and her sister. They are great players, charitable, and Serena is (or deserves to be) in the Fatback HOF. This was unexcusable, tho.
Very fair point.
True Dat True Dat. I loved it myself…she told old girl… you see this tennis ball, I will take it and shove it down your f-ing throat. I was on the floor rolling @ COMPTON!! FATBACK HOF NO DOUBT.
It was an embarrassing display of unsportsman like conduct. Yeah, she’s from compton but that’s is no excuse to act the way she did. What’s going on with our people, first serena’s outburst, then Kanye acting a fool on MTV.
I think the ironic thing (seriously) is that she was fined for unsportsMANlike conduct. There’s a double standard in that alone. The WTA should be fined for fining her for that infraction.
I don’t think Serena’s behavior (hardly “delicious”) was exactly what Nike had in mind when they used the words “nasty” and “vicious” on the T-shirts she had just introduced! There’s some “irony” to begin with in the campaign. Wonder if Nike will even show the Serena ad.