If you’re a reporter and you ask Serena Williams a question that she doesn’t like during a press conference, she will let you know about it. She did it back in September during the U.S. Open when a reporter asked her why she wasn’t smiling after a match against her sister Venus Williams—and she did it again today after she knocked off Su-Wei Hsieh in the second round of the Australian Open.
After her win, an Italian reporter pestered Williams with several questions about her loss to Roberta Vinci at the U.S. Open in September, a loss that cost her a chance at clinching the first Grand Slam since 1988. And while Williams played along for a while and begrudgingly answered a couple questions about Vinci, the press conference took a nosedive when she was asked if she has gone back and watched her loss to Vinci yet.
“Yeah, I watch it every day,” she said, sarcastically. “Every night to get ready.”
And then, as if that wasn’t enough, another reporter decided to ask Serena why her sister Venus didn’t show up for a press conference yesterday. Serena, clearly ready to get as far away from reporters as possible, shot the question down.
“If you want to, you can ask her,” she said. “Yeah, I don’t know, I wasn’t here. In fact, I was watching a Telenovela [yesterday]. I’m coming apart, though. Do you have any more questions?”
The entire press conference isn’t up yet, but you can watch a portion of it here:
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[via USA Today]
