*Serena Williams has so far declined to comment on her “friend” and fellow tennis player Caroline Wozniacki’s headline-making impersonation of her, which involved padding her shorts and top.
The 22-year-old Danish tennis player has been getting an earful since a video surfaced of her impression at last weekend’s Roger Federer Tour in Sao Paolo, Brazil. Wozniacki came out on the court, strutting around as Williams — who also participated in the exhibition event but was not in the stadium at the time.
Wizniacki ultimately lost the match to Maria Sharapova.
Though Wozniacki declined to comment to ABCNews.com, her rep said, “It was all in good fun as Serena is one of her closest friends on tour.”
A Williams rep declined to comment on Wozniacki’s impression when contacted by ABCNews.com.
Though the prank appeared to be a hit with the crowd, and even Federer could be seen laughing, others since then have found it to be in bad taste.
In a poll of readers on Huffington Post’s Black Voices section, 40 percent found the stunt to be racist. But 38 percent said it wasn’t and 21 percent weren’t sure.
“This is an old racist trope about our supposed hypersexuality and sexual abnormality,” commented Twitter user @hazzarDeuce on the Black Voices Twitter page.
“I know they are friends, but still, inside it does something to me, because we’ve been made fun of for so long for different parts of our bodies,” co-host Sherri Shepherd said on “The View” Tuesday. “And to see Serena Williams reduced to this, I don’t like it.”
But Elisabeth Hasselbeck thought the joke was a friendly jest between friends. “I think this is inside stuff that they always do,” she said.
I hope she continues to NOT give this stupid stunt “legs”. Too many folks want to dive in the the racist pool with no lifeguard.
“Serena Williams has so far declined to comment on her “friend” and fellow tennis player Caroline Wozniacki’s headline-making impersonation of her.”
To folks like Gayle K and whites who doesn’t get it, black people don’t really like to create any drama. They already complain enough about how sensitive blacks are.
Not because it’s coming from your so called friends like Novak, Roddick and this stupid girl, doesn’t mean it’s cool. And the only reason why they continue to do it, is because Serena is too nice to let them know how much it offends her. And she really doesn’t need to say anything. Because with social media like Twitter, there are more than enough folks who will speak on her behalf. But they continue, nonetheless. I guess now she knows who her friends really are.
Listen lady, please don’t paint Serena as a Saint, remember she cussed out a white referee and almost got banned from tennis. Based on the fact that Serena is black and the referee Sherri Sheperd said this was racism. Really? I like Serena and the reason why she’s not entertaining this foolishness is because this is a non story.
Elizabeth Hasselbeck is an idiot! You’ve never seen Serena prancing around with a blonde wig on and mashing down her butt and boobs! If this is what they do amongst each other, then she should have kept it between them and not come out in public like that. She’s probably just a hater anyway!
Serena was a blond at one time…remember.
You have to be very selective who you call your friends because they can get too comfortable with you and think that they can say and do anything to you and you’ll be okay with that. Same thing with Gwenth Palthrow when she used the “N” word while she was with Beyonce and Jay-Z and they were fine with it.
Very well said.
She was singing n-word in Paris.
Right, she was singing the song written by JayZ
SERENA WILLIAMS generally carries herself with
—- a GREAT DEAL of SELF-RESPECT,
—- a WHOLE LOT of PERSONAL DIGNITY,
—- a HIGH SENSE of REAL VALUE for FEMININITY and WOMAN-HOOD.
in a nutshell, SERENA WILLIAMS generally
COMPORTS HERSELF with DECORUM.
i may be wrong but i am not at all sure that there is
ANY POSTIVE, BENEFICIAL VALUE AT ALL RIGHT NOW for SERENA WILLIAMS to comment on the STRENOUS EFFORTS of CAROLINE WOZNIACKI to make
…. AN INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC CARICATURE
…. AN INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC MOCKERY
…. AN INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC JEST
of the BIG, BEAUTIFUL, MAGNICENT BOOBS AND ASS OF SERENA WILLIAMS.
as things stand right now …. INTERNATIONALLY ….
CAROLINE WOZNIACKI has REDUCED HERSELF INTO
—- A JESTER,
—- A CLOWN,
—- A JOKER,
—- A FOOLISH PRANKSTER,
—- A WOMAN JEALOUS OF THE BIG, BEAUTIFUL, MAGNIFICENT BOOBS AND ASS OF SERNA WILLIAMS
—- A SERIAL DIS-RESPECTER OF THE PERSON OF SERENA WILLIAMS AS CAROLINE WOZNIACKI HAS EXHIBITED THIS SORT OF STUPID, DIS-RESPECTFUL BEHAVIOUR PUBLICLY BEFORE
—- A DIS-RESPECTER OF THE OLYMPIC GAMES
—- A DIS-RESPECTER OF BRAZIL WHICH IS THE COUNTRY THAT WILL HOST THE NEXT/2016 OLYMPIC GAMES AND IN SUPPORT OF WHICH THE GILLETTE FEDERER EXHIBTION MATCH WAS HELD IN BRAZIL
…. A SERIAL DIS-RESPECTER OF THE U.S.A WHICH SERENA WILLIAMS HAS REPRESENTED PREVIOUSLY IN INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENTS LIKE THE FED CUP SERIES AND THE OLYMPIC GAMES —- A GLOBALLY ESTEEMED AND HIGHLY RATED COMPETITIVE EVENT AT WHICH SERENA WILLIAMS WON 2 GOLD MEDALS FOR THE U.S.A AT THE 2012 OLYMPIC GAMES
really, there is NO POSTIVE VALUE RIGHT NOW FOR SERENA WILLIAMS
—- A UNICEF REPRESENTAIVE
—- A SEVERAL TIMES WTA WORLD NUMBER ONE
—- AN INTERNATIONALLY HIGHLY RESPECTED WOMAN / LADY OF SUBSTANCE
to make comments on the
STUPID ANTICS OF
CAROLINE WOZNIACKI —- A JESTER, A CLOWN, A JOKER, A SILLY PRANKSTER
and A FOOL.
yeah.
really ………
Well, all I can say is that my mother taught my siblings and me NEVER to ridicule the way a person was born, … PERIOD.
I think what Wozniacki has done is very sad, BUT it is a reflection of the way SHE was raised.
Serena will respond the way she always has, beating the brakes off everyone whenever she feels like it.
Of course it is a liberal leftist hack who says it was racist. Nothing racist involved.
If you think that the “impersonation” was a racist thing to do, then you’re fucking stupid. End of story. People are so quick to flip the race card, boo fucking hoo, get a life. The reason race is still an issue is because dumb people always want to bring it up and make a big deal out of skin color, cry me a damn river.
I dont see how it’s racist to pretend her bust and rear end are bigger, like Serena’s. Just because your chest and butt are bigger, doesn’t not automatically mean your playing a race card. She’s making a specific reference to a specific person, not to a race or even a general culture.
I really wish people wouldn’t toss the race card around so easily when in all honesty, it’s not.
Plus, if Serena isn’t tossing a fit about it, why do we all care? So they had some fun, big whoop. There’s alot of other things to be concerned about rather then some over-paid girl pretending to have bigger assets then she really has.
Grow up.