Tennis fans were shocked when Australian pro tennis player Dominic Thiem accused women’s superstar Serena Williams of having a “bad personality.”
Thiem was outraged when his post-match press conference was interrupted by officials who wanted him to make way for Williams to speak to the press after losing her tennis match.
Thiem was instructed to vacate the main press room to make way for Williams, who had just lost her match.
Thiem was livid.
“I don’t really get it, seriously. I mean, what the hell? No, but it’s a joke, really. I have to leave the room because she’s coming?” Thiem reportedly said in anger.
“What’s my point of that? I have to leave the room because she’s coming. Well I’ll leave also then. I can also do whatever I want.”
Tournament director Guy Forget apologized to Thiem for making him leave the room.
“Actually, I wasn’t angry or frustrated. Maybe for a couple of minutes or so. It is just the principle,” he later told Eurosport Germany. “It doesn’t matter, if it is me who sits in there. I still made a wrong statement. I said that I am not a junior anymore. But even if a junior is in there, every player has to wait,” he said.
He specifically blamed Serena for always demanding special treatment from tournament officials.
“It is a matter of course. It also shows a bad personality in my opinion. I am 100% sure [Roger] Federer or [Rafael] Nadal would never do something like that,” he added.
Serena and Naomi Osaka, the 2018 US Open champ, were both ousted in round 3 of the 2019 French Open tennis tournament.
The 37-year-old Compton native was eliminated in the third round by 20-year-old American player Sofia Kenin. Earlier in the day, the No. 1 seed Naomi Osaka was ousted 6-4, 6-2 by 42nd ranked player Katerina Siniakova of the Czech Republic.
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Oh shut up and move over!
“It is a matter of course. It also shows a bad personality in my opinion. I am 100% sure [Roger] Federer or [Rafael] Nadal would never do something like that,” <- YES clearly your a JR.. of course they would and worse!
Get out of the way you pompous @$$
Make way for the queen
he just mad a black woman woman is more important, even if she loses.
get the f**k on white boy
Haters stay mad. Serena has star power and who ever this loser is does not
All yall gonna say he lying anyway..
What does he have for personality
So now she got all this power when she can’t even wear what she wants on the court maybe the press wanted to hear from he really and not him at the time who is to say she demanded that? Either way she is a strong black woman and has had to have thick skin in a sport that is dominated by white ppl who also have issues with entitlement she has been in that sport since a teenager can you imagine how she was treated? I’ll never forget when her and her sister was young they were called nappy headed by someone white publicly!! She great at what she does and has had to go through a lot so I can see her having a I run shiiit attitude because that’s how She has had to act in order to not get ran over and treated any kind of way
HIS problem was with the PR folks and he took it out on Serena. FU dude! You got the stank attitude… https://media3.giphy.com/media/3oz8xKaVomTm8vI3uw/giphy.gif
Serena has earned the right to be a diva!
Tell that bitter dude to check her resume!
#StayMad
He salty AF LMAO bish you are not the queen, you know who we here for ? whether she wins or not!!!
Bye Felicia!
He’s Australian; I am not surprised by his opinions…it’s par for the course….this didn’t have anything to do with Serena…but whatever….
HE mad that THEY made him move for a black woman.
She didn’t have him move, or ask him to, hell she ain’t want to do the press conference
Fvk Thiem….Move Bish….get out the way…The Queen is coming…
Yep that is what happens when you become a queen of champions on the court. Those who have studied Greek or Roman statues , Serena comes to mind.
Awwwww he big mad cause he’s not popular
Who? Love you Serena!
He is acting like a crying baby without his pacifier.
Serena Williams = Hall of Famer
Dominic Thiem = who?
Love it….Make room for Ms Serena Williams….he couldn’t handle that an Australian Pro Player has to move aside for a Nubian Queen.
The world to dude: https://media3.giphy.com/media/yVcHbFaITqZos/giphy.gif
Bow down, b!tches….
Every season they try to portray Serena as some stereotypical black woman.
Serena Williams > that other guy
Serena Williams: 9543643431231231
That other guy: -100
So he’s mad at her about someone else’s decision to make him leave?
He’s Austrian not Australian.
Sounds about WHITE!
Who?
Don’t even read this article. He’s riding her coattail in order for us to even know who he is. Careful with wypipo they’re always trickin’
See my comment below. LOL!
So the winner of a match had to make way for a big named loser? Of unpopular opinion here but IDGAF. That is some straight bullshit. And IDC who it is. They should have apologized indeed because that is not okay. Glad they did. That was his moment. IDGAF if the Pope was outside waiting. If the Pope ass lost his match then his Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, needs to wait til the winner finishes.
Sandra changed his country and you and he will deal!?
Now he needs to direct his anger towards the correct entity. That much I do agree on. Its not her fault. Its the tournament/Tennis league fault
(In my CB voice)
“Fugg you Lil Boi!”
Serena Williams has made history as the first athlete to make Forbes’ list of the World’s Richest Self-Made Women. What list is he on?
Nan one.
His issue should have been with the people, not Serena herself.
When a queen enters the room — make way! That means bow down Mitch! Lol.
Great minds think alike Yoni. I just said that. ??
It’s hard for some people to see people with brown skin getting preferential treatment…oh well it happens when your in the presence of greatness!!!
So he’s never actually met her to say this?
He is RIGHT. That was rude AF. I just don’t understand why his vitriol was directed at Serena and NOT the people who made that decision.
I didn’t see this as racial. He knows who Serena is. I probably would have felt like that also. Like damn. I have some rank too. I’ll step aside, but LEAVE the room? Who is she. God? Yall can stop it with the race shit. This was more about about making somebody feel “less than” for no reason.
Your AVI….OMG…Steaming HOT tears! Who in the heck is this little boy???? I see his face on so many memes, and HE NEVER disappoints. LOL.
Serena is GOAT. Please exit to the right sir.
His personality sounds so lovely… Mad at the wrong people
https://media1.giphy.com/media/1gv8JOQt3tBjG/giphy.gif
WHY WHY do folk put people with some funky azz money up on a pedestal? Trust and beleive me IDGAF WHO YOU ARE… you are NEVER greater than me! Im just as important! I dont blame him!
Oh I said that above/below depends on the sorting… and why I also said they SHOULD have indeed apologized bc it was their fault. Its misdirected anger indeed. And thats not okay either. But this happened in football acutally during a Super Bowl and it pissed me off then too. They were so in Kap, Vernon Davis, and Tony Dixon face I was like ummm the 49ers LOST. Can yall interview the damn it WINNERS? (the Ravens)
THANK YOU! Her armpits still stinky even with all that money she has… So she can wait!
The list of mens winners (for now) at the French Open.
I’m not nor will I ever listen to them over us. NEVER. Now if this is the case then clearly some humble pie needs to happen. I’m more than clear on how we are viewed, talked about and narrated by everyone else but us so for that alone idgaf bout his claims.
Why oh why do black ppl keep cappin for Serena sell out azz let her and her yt daddy exit stage left. BTW Althea Gibson is the GOAT! #facts
For me its not about money. Its about winning and losing and the damn dude won. He deserved to be heard. This the kind of mess make me not want to support tennis PERIOD. It also goes to show they are not always racist OR sexist. I mean they certaintly CAN BE at times. But they are equal oppty. assholes in tennis and always have been.
For me its not about money. Its about winning and losing and the damn dude won. He deserved to be heard. This the kind of mess make me not want to support tennis PERIOD. It also goes to show they are not always racist OR sexist. I mean they certaintly CAN BE at times. But they are equal oppty. assholes in tennis and always have been.
I don’t think anyone blames him for being upset. He has every right to be mad; I would be too! But he should be blaming the French Open officials, not Serena.
I don’t think anyone blames him for being upset. He has every right to be mad; I would be too! But he should be blaming the French Open officials, not Serena.
Nah alot of folks are blaming him for being upset. And I would be pissed.
I didn’t know Serena’s daddy is white. ?
I’m thinking he thought SHE was the one who said she wanted him to leave. but you right it still falls on them for entertaining her demands no matter how rude.
No one has to cape or like Serena, her stats speaks and defines her as a tennis player!
She’s only a news topic because of her wins!
We don’t know her, but MANY BLACKS are proud of two blacks girls from Compton reaching the apex of women’s tennis, and changing the game!
We cape for Sloan Stephens and Naomi Osaka, and others!
Someone commented below that Serena is a GOAT. That may be true but does that make her better than everyone else in the world? Where there is smoke there is fire. This is not the first time that I’ve heard that she thinks she’s better than anyone personally and not just associated with being an athlete and that she frequently treats people who are of a lesser stature as if they ain’t shyt. That’s why I keep saying stop worshipping these athletes, entertainers, raptors etc because that shyt goes to their heads and they believe that they are entitled to talk down to people, disrespek people yada yada. No. it does not sir, I mean m’aam. I noticed she ain’t have shyt to say about Common when he dumped her years ago and he was going around saying that she stinks (body odor) and couldn’t stomach her smell especially after sex.
Oh and yo. For all of you GOATERS that will ride for a person who don’t give AF about you while you out chere protecting their well-earned reputation for being a nasty bish you can go kick tennis ball rocks cuz you don’t faze me, sticks and stones baby..oh, and I won’t even waste my time responding to your comment(s)….
I don’t really believe in blindly worshipping celebrities you don’t really know what theyre like behind closed doors . I lot of them only respect other multi millionaires
Clown shut up
She had nothing to do with that. Get over yourself.
Just watched the first episode of Luther, and I wasn’t disappointed.
I will watch just to see Idris walk.
It wasn’t about money, instead who more people would be interested in.
LMAO!
LMMFAO…goodness!
Maybe, he would have felt better if it was Maria Sharapova?!
Serena probably DOESN’T WAIT AROUND FOR PRESS CONFERENCES, WIN OR LOSE! Just like entertainers have riders, I’m sure Serena, and other top athletes do too! Blame the Tournament!
I’m sure, it’s WTA and the tournament officials, who want the press more than Serena!
When she wins, there’s not a lot press, more when she loses, and CONTROVERSY LIKE THIS, “Angry Black Female Athlete,” MAJOR NEWS!
Yass that man walks like he has a HAMMER!! Remember the underwear scene in Takers? *goes back into lurk mode*
I hope you’re not a black woman. Why rip each other apart? We are our own worst enemies
yaassss!!!! I loveeeee to see him walk….like damn…that is such a turn on…..
I totally agree!
People need to stop believing every headline or word comes out of a mouth is true! Stop believing celebrities are perfect people, like this guy!
It was the Aussie cartoonist who did the unflattering cartoon on Serena after her loss to Osaka!
With all the black indigenous people who are the true native Australians, this guy might just have issues because it’s Serena. His OBVIOUS disdain was there before thIS slight by the Tournament Officials!
chile…you gonna make me look it up on demand…fast forward to that scene…hit pause…fantasize for moment….cause hunty!!!
Exactly.
Thank you!
He made it all bout Serena, and wanted his tantrum heard!
Well I’m sure that this random has a just fine and dandy stellar personality. Somebody pat him on the head, give him one of those nasty Danish cookies that come in the blue tin and send him on his way.
But, the Tournament made the call! I’m sure Serena would have gladly left the building, and no, I don’t believe at this stage in her career that she waits around to do press!
I really don’t think most of these celebrities are most humble, most human beings aren’t, imo!
Because he had problem with her before this, just don’t like her, his choice!
But, the Tournament Officials are to blame!
Oh thats the internet’s lil stanka wanka lol Gavin hes adorable.
Who knows, if Serena had any idea this guy was going to be asked to leave the room?
The officials wanted that concession press, Serena losing and saying why! Bottom line, and slighted this guy!
Just like they made Venus play on a court, usually not reserved for players of her stature. Officials make the calls!
yes indeed!!!
I’m sorry sir, who did you say you are? What is your name?…..
Chile he told no damn lies … I see this demon too …. ugly spirit … gross ..
… folks will see
Who knows, if Serena had any idea this guy was going to be asked to leave the room?
^^^^^^^^
As I said before, his anger is misplaced and that is not okay either.
This is what pisses me off, while they use anything black women have that helps their money grind!
Hair Products (esp. natural hair care products)
Makeup
Cars and Apparel
Kim Kardashian’s Prison Reformers
When Serena doesn’t Play the US Open, ticket sales are down, way more when she does play! So, I can understand why they they give her star treatment, THEIR MONEY!
Thank you, Serena really hates press, it’s a necessary evil, and she helps promote women’s tennis (WTA)!
when your co workers have bad attitudes does it stop you from collecting those checks ??? ……….. NOPE
Carry On!
Thiem ain’t nobody checking for you.Serena= high ratings.
Why blame Serena, when it was tournament officials who asked him to leave.
Lol ?….
There is a changing of the guard … is Sloane Stephens still in it to win it!
“those nasty Danish cookies that come in the blue tin and send him on his way.”?
This giff proper made me chuckle
Sounds like dog face here is the one with the attitude problem
https://media0.giphy.com/media/tcdYXOEcPcTjW/giphy-downsized-medium.gif
I laugh every time I see it too
Really .. just another white man saying black women have nasty attitudes .. smh
She lost today.
Maybe you are right, but I don’t see it on THIS situation
You don’t have to believe …… I see her (it)
You don’t have to believe …… I see her (it)
Whoopi said it best of all….
Whoopi said it best of all….
I sure can’t see Serena the GOAT Even wanting to do a news Conference after she done got a bet down…I Like Thiem But what can he do about it but throw b(*&& fit like hes doing.
She loss today.
She always does a conference AFTER she’s lost. She lost to Osaka and gave a conference. I’ve seen her lose plenty of times and give a conference.
But he’s right. It’s Black privilege vs. white privilege. He should get used to it.
His opinion regarding her attitude is irrelevant tbh.
Nooo! I’m NOT saying you don’t “see” I’m saying THIS situation sounds like the tournament officials and not her, per se
Thiem and his Tennis playing Girl friend will take Miles and Miles , Plus Years and Decades to reach Serena in the Winners Circle….
Ummmmm OF COURSE your ass needs to make way for the QUEEN. Get out of her way. She’s a 23-time grand slam winner. A legend. Thiem can’t even get through to the semi’s. Stop bringing up champions name and learn how to become one yourself. Bum
White privileged does not exist!
How is this about race?
There are ALOT of great players besides Sloane Stevens. Sloane will not dominate like Serena!
Oh no she doesn’t. That year Drake brought that dark cloud over the court, she left all her sh1t behind and went straight to the car!
Agree!
You just mad you had to make way for a Black Queen…his reaction and statements show a “bad personality”…do it movin buster
Oh wow…didn’t know…yeah…I would feel a way too. But was it Serena that requested to go right at that moment or someone else? I don’t watch tennis enough to know much about the sports decorum.
I do see what you are saying and still fugg her !!
Not sure.
I think Serena has a bad personality too and I smell narcissism. When Serena started using her daughter as the excuse for every failure I saw her truth in the darkness. She will mistreat Olympia because she’ll blame Olympia for her losses and not the fact that she can dose up anymore on whatever she took to get those manly features.
He need to go sit down somewhere. She can have a bad attitude if she want she’s a champ and has worked harder than most to her where she is and has faced extra challenges because of her circumstance of being a block woman in America. So….. https://media2.giphy.com/media/dUisbO50amVc4/giphy.gif
Actually I just had this conversation with my coworker. People who work hard in life to get to higher heights have a hard time respecting people who don’t strive for greatness like themselves. She’s no different from President Dump. She’s earned both reputations and she is great!
“who was that”
Well according to the press, just a space filler!!!?
Whatever!
She had every reason to do so!
Most were angry for her!!!
That is what a lot of black women do on this board…
TEAR DOWN OTHER BLACK WOMEN! smdh
Awe he was upset… TOO BAD!!!
Serena did not ask them to do what they did!
It is world news when Serena…. wins or loses!
He’s Austrian, not Australian.
Well, out of her own mouth.
She does…. ijs
Me don’t understand you ?
My error on his nationality, the rest I stand by!
yea that’s what i said….lol
Ain’t no principle when your considered the best. Finish early and leave. Lol
Thiem and his Tennis playing Girl friend will take Miles and Miles , Plus Years and Decades to reach Serena in the Winners Circle….
Haterz and Thiem,,,, Catch Serena if you Dare…
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7a9pxy
Amen.
So.. what can u do about it?
Serena is the GOAT and got money in the bank….
We can’t help how we looked when we was born Who is to say that you don’t look like “Who Done It” and beside that u r here trashing Serena about her looks and attitude while Serena is living her best life and could care less about how you feel are what u broke as is whining about…Tell Thiem to keep Hitting them TENNIS BALLS HUN.
With a net worth of approximately $225 million, tennis star Serena Williams just became the first athlete to land on Forbes’ coveted list of the richest self-made women under the age of 40. But if you think she earned her millions strictly from those 23 Grand Slam titles, you’ve underestimated her financial savvy.
Everybody can’t look Beyonce & Rihanna huni. Looks aren’t everything.
Serena requested to do her press right away. He was in the main press room. She said she’d go in a smaller room cause she wanted to get it over with. The tournament officials decided that Thiem could go to a smaller room and give Serena the main room. Theim was done with the main press and was just doing his German press. Even Serena said it was rude to move him, but she went along with the officials. I see why he’s salty, but he went over board to say she had a bad personality. But her Roger Federer, he was laughing about it afterwards and no longer upset. The press is making much ado about nothing.
Does she need to? It’s a changing of the guard Serena is still one of the best and most decorated tennis players . Y’all hyping Serena after her prime though. Black people Late as usual.
So it’s only Madison Keyes left .
Bow down peasants. Serena Williams is tennis. They should have arrested him.
Finish? He should have been kicked out for the Queen.
Thank you. He should be carrying her bags.
I have met her. She does not have a bad attitude. She graciously signed autographs and took pictures for us after a match and in between her press briefings. He knows the process and is just jealous. He should be rushing to clear the room for her.
She was nice and gracious and professional when I met her. She’s a new mother and knows when her mind is not on the game but somewhere else. Hush.
and she is ugly too.
She’s no longer ‘the best’. She is an arrogant, rude woman. Simple as that.
Typical YT crying victim? What’s new?????
?? Does she have 2? Times up now.
At my jobs I noticed all the good ol boys used to complain about this black lady who was a manager wanting or demanding too much stuff. I also noticed that she wasn’t asking for anything more than other people in her position was getting. I am pretty sure it wasn’t Serena herself who asked to have this guy moved.
Serena will always be “the best.” She’s simply the greatest woman’s tennis player EVER and is considered as such. Even by the greats.
everyone gets eclipsed at some point. But, her playing ability isn’t the topic here.
Idiot I am not Black. Only Americans describe themselves as a color in a crayon box. Black is a color in a crayon box. Do you have a learning durability?
I don’t care what you or who you are… it doesn’t matter. It’s still a changing of the guard. Your not the brightest person.
Nah. Most narcissists are nice, gracious and professional but when you pay closer attention you catch the glimmers.
Why are you referencing Beyonce & Rihanna? I certainly didn’t! It’s fact that Serena exudes the essence of masculinity. My focus in comment was on her presentation and expressions about her daughter/birth being at fault for her losses. That’s blaming her child. Good day Sir Roberts LOL!
Oh well. she can care even less about how you feel and your financial status. LOL. How tall is your stan hun? Who’s to say I don’t look like “I want to be her”? GTEFOHWTBS! You must be a masculine looking woman yourself. I said what I said because that’s what I meant.
All that is true Serena is a beast and looks like one too.
Her bank is built and I ain’t mad.
My daycare brings in $1.4M a year.
Have a balling day!
What can you do about my opinion and my comment? Not a damn thing.
Get Lost Hater.
The one who falls and gets up is stronger than the one who never tried. Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying so keep sitting on yo as whining about Serena Look and her Attitude While she keep right on “Living Her Best Life” .
Ain’t that the truth.
Serena Know….That What other people think and say about you is none of your business. The most destructive thing you would ever do is to believe someone else’s opinion of you. You have to stop letting other people’s opinions control you , and that my deer is what time it is,,,You keep hating while Serena keep Smiling ALL… THE WAY TO THE BANK….And Beyond!!
Yo mama.
Are you slow?