Serena Williams & the Silencing of Women

[Awsi Dooger]

14. Here is a good example of Serena Williams' mean spirited personality

The tennis forums are great because so many posters there remember specific incidents and quotes that are otherwise lost. Today a poster reminded of Serena's low class tweet when Justine Henin tried to explain her side of a controversial incident between the two players nearly a decade earlier. It is referred to as the "Hand Incident" and whether Serena deserved another serve instead of losing a key point in the match.

This article describes everything very well. But Serena's low class tweet rightfully earns a spot at the top. I'll allow the writer's words to suffice. But this is the reason many of us who follow tennis closely are astonished at the determination to excuse or even back Serena's version, when so owns so many prior examples of ugly words and conduct, on and off the court.

https://gregcouch.com/2011/02/25/serena-henin-still-searching-for-closure-on-hand-incident/

"Eight years later, and Serena Williams and Justine Henin are still looking for closure.

“Question,’’ Williams wrote on her Twitter account. “I keep hearing about an admittance to someone cheating me & lying about it after at the French open? Did she confess finally?’’

Well that “someone’’ Williams could not bring herself to name was Henin. And if Williams were truly interested in finding out if Henin had fessed up to what happened at the 2003 French Open, the infamous Hand Incident, then Williams could have just googled it. Instead, she wrote it in a question with very pointed words to her two million Twitter followers, including media members who would make those words even more public."