Serena Williams, Maria Sharapova Feud: Top Tennis Players Had ‘Great Talk’ After Sharapova Said Williams’ Had ‘Black Heart’ [VIDEO] : TENNIS : Sports World News

Maria Sharapova is right when she says she does not have a rivalry with Serena Williams.

It is extra like a feud, until you ask Serena, who wasn’t all that convincing in downplaying the strain between the 2.

The 2 hottest gamers in girls’s tennis spoke previous to their semifinals showdown on the Brisbane Worldwide on Friday evening in Australia.

The 2 spent the latter half of 2013 sparring within the media. Williams made a reference to an unnamed top-five participant that was presumed to be Sharapova in a Rolling Stone article within the spring that touched off the verbal sparring.

Serena, nonetheless, denied any in poor health will towards Sharapova on Thursday earlier than their semifinal.

“I had an important speak together with her (Sharapova),” Williams mentioned, as reported by ABC News in Australia. “For me, I haven’t got something towards her or something.”

Serena mocked the unnamed participant to Rolling Stone and mentioned the participant’s boyfriend had a “black coronary heart.”

Sharapova at the moment is relationship the 23^rd-ranked males’s tennis participant, Grigor Dimitrov, who reportedly had a earlier relationship with Williams.

Sharapova countered in a information convention previous to the beginning of Wimbledon, saying, “Perhaps she ought to speak about her relationship, and her boyfriend that was married, and is getting a divorce and has youngsters,” a reference to Williams’ coach Patrick Mouratoglou.

When requested about that alternate, Williams’ response indicated that her relationship with Sharapova nonetheless is frosty.

“I do not assume that query is for me. I did not go wherever like that, so…,” Williams mentioned.

Sharapova was requested about her feedback in a latest New York Instances article, wherein she mentioned she revered Williams on the court docket however the relationship off the court docket was “completely different.”

“That was one of many explanation why I needed to try this interview. There have been a whole lot of questions being requested and a whole lot of questions thrown within the air,” Sharapova mentioned on Thursday.

“I assumed it was actually vital to clear the air, and I believe I mentioned all the pieces I needed to say about it.”

Sharapova did produce one light-hearted second throughout her portion of the information convention. When requested about her rivalry with Williams – Williams holds a 14-2 lead, has received 13 straight matches and hasn’t misplaced to Sharapova since 2004 – Sharapova quipped, “”I believe I bought to win just a few instances as a way to name it a rivalry.”

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