Tennis nice Serena Williams stated she understands why WNBA rookie Caitlin Clark avoids social media and that she hopes the Indiana Fever star tunes out negativity.
Williams, winner of 23 Grand Slam tournaments, spoke to media on the Tribeca Movie Pageant in New York on Thursday at a premiere for “In The Enviornment: Serena Williams,” an eight-episode docuseries that can air on ESPN+ starting July 10.
“I used to be bullied. Issues that I needed to undergo, individuals could be canceled for saying now,” Williams stated of the scrutiny she and her sister Venus confronted from followers, media and different gamers after they entered the elite tennis world.
“My place in rising up, as a youngster, I form of needed to be guarded to form of keep sane. Simply [getting] a lot press and doing every part I used to be doing and touring the globe yearly. It was each week. It was a grind.”
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Williams was requested in regards to the consideration that Clark, the No. 1 WNBA draft choose, is coping with now as a first-year professional. Clark has been on the heart of numerous media and social media debate and dialogue, together with why she didn’t make the U.S. Olympic basketball roster for this summer time’s Paris Video games.
“I really like that she tries to remain grounded. She says she would not take a look at her social [media]. I get it. I do not both,” Williams stated of Clark. “I believe it is so essential to simply proceed to do what she’s doing. It doesn’t matter what different individuals do. If individuals are adverse, it is as a result of they can not do what you do. Hopefully, she’ll proceed to do what she’s doing.”
Clark has steadily stated she tries to remain off social media. She stated Thursday that she is against any racist and misogynist “agendas” on-line.
“Individuals shouldn’t be utilizing my title to push these agendas,” Clark stated earlier than the Fever’s sport Thursday. “It is disappointing. It is not acceptable. Treating each single girl on this league with the identical quantity of respect, I believe, it is only a fundamental human factor that everyone ought to do.”
