Serena Williams had to pull out of the WTA Tour’s season-ending Sony Ericsson Championships at Doha, Qatar, and when a reporter suggested she should have considered the sponsors and the crowd and gone through with playing despite pulling a stomach muscle, Serena replied:

“You know, I think I know what I should do. I should make you work out for - how old am I? - for like 22 years and then make you have a sever stomach strain and then tell you to play for the sponsors,” she said managing to smile. “You should try it. You should live your dream.”

It’s easy to call Serena Williams a sarcastic little witch (probably replacing the “W” with a “B” would be a more accurate description for some) but seriously, should the reporter have made that comment? Even if you think Serena pulled out because of the beating she took from Venus in an earlier round, she said she was pulling out because of a stomach muscle strain. Ivanovic also pulled out of the tournament and no one suggested to her that she should have considered the sponsors and the crowd. No one took the tone taken by Barry Flatman in his piece “Serena Williams cuts short her year once again by pulling out of Doha” written for timesonline.co.uk. Do  you get the feeling Mister Flatman is not a Serena Williams fan?

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