Serena @ The Australian Open earlier this year
“The guy said, ‘Hit the net like any Negro would.’ I was shocked,” Williams said Monday. “I couldn’t believe it. I had to do a double take. I think I hit a double fault on that point.”
“Every time I missed a shot or a serve, he would say, ‘That’s the way to do it,’” she said. “He was calling, ‘Foot fault.’ He was saying, ‘Hit in the net.’ … I mean, who does this? That’s so elementary. You don’t do this on a professional level.”
“I shouldn’t have let it bother me, because growing up in Compton we had drive-bys,” said Williams, who was raised in Los Angeles. “I guess that’s what my dad prepared me for, but I’m not going to stand for it.”
Williams claims that Winton made at least one racist remark before he was ejected.
Now the guy told ESPN, that he didn’t say what she claimed he did:
”I said she was lazy, that she didn’t run for balls — stuff like that — but I did not say the N-word or use any racial language,” Donald Winton told The Miami Herald when reached by telephone Tuesday. “I’m at my wit’s end about this. I didn’t say a word the whole first set; … in the second set I said some stuff and I guess she didn’t like it, but I didn’t say what she said I said.”
-Donald Winton, 51
That’s kind of odd, because fans and security confirmed a man heckled Williams inappropriately. Read more @ ESPN >>
thank you ma # 60 but she handeled it really well cause she in da final of the tournament now she play tommorow so she good but i know she wanted to kick his ass but her daddy prepared her for that type of negativity so shes fine
It’s really sad that a 51 year old man would come out there yelling racist comments, when he knows that those years should be old and done! It seems he’s still living in those times! He’s needs to wake up and realize that it’s 2007, not 1955! People are supposed to be setting examples for younger kids, and teaching them the right things, and not the wrong!
WHY ARE PEOPLE SAYIN THIS MAN WAS WHITE.. HE WAS BLACK PEOPLE! YA’LL DIDN’T KNOW THAT???
I’ll love to smell & eat her P***Y and A** right after a tennis match, then pound her P***Y & A** until she begs me to stop, my knid of woman.
I love when this bidnutz (that means fuck-faced bitch in German, I think) loses a match. It is NEVER her fault. She is the absence of grace personified. I don’t care about some dude heckling her. He’s probably a shitbox – who cares?! This was a year ago. I just looked up “Fuck Serena” and found this thread. I second the opinion. Fuck the bidnutz and her clothing line for big butts.
Oh – I like how she name drops Compton and all of its drive-by’s. The mid 80′s? Really? And how much has she given back to Compton – besides expensive clothing, obnoxious advertising, and an embarrassing image for both young women and the United States as a whole. The greatest justice is seeing her lose and pout and say outrageously offensive things about her opponents (to the tune of: she sucked, and I beat myself). All I can say is that I’d like to see her in the ring against Mike Tyson. I would love this.
This one goes out to all the beautiful Compton ladies, but no Williams sisters cause they crazy.