Writing in her memoir, “Unstoppable: My Life So Far,” her post-match run-in with the tennis great – where she saw her sobbing uncontrollably – flipped the scales in the American’s favour, NYPost writes.
“Guttural sobs, the sort that make you heave for air, the sort that scares you,” is how Sharapova describes Williams’ cries in the book, according to excerpts released by the New York Times Monday. 17-year-old Sharapova stunned Williams in the 2004 Wimbledon final. Image: NYT“It went on and on. I got out as quickly as I could, but she knew I was there. People often wonder why I have had so much trouble beating Serena; she’s owned me in the past ten years. My record against her is 2 and 19.
“In analyzing this, people talk about Serena’s strength, her serve and confidence, how her particular game matches up to my particular game, and, sure there is truth to all of that; but, to me, the real answer was there, in this locker room, where I was changing and she was bawling. I think Serena hated me for being the skinny kid who beat her, against all odds, at Wimbledon.”
Despite looking at Serena and her sister Venus Williams in awe when she first emerged on the scene Sharapova writes one thought rang loud and clear when she encountered the younger Serena back in the early 2000s: “I am going to get you.”
After her impressive Grand Slam return at the US Open following a 15-month doping ban for meldonium, Sharapova, who earned plenty of enemies in the process, seems curiously intent on becoming friends with the one she can’t beat.
“Serena and I should be friends: we love the same thing, we have the same passion,” Sharapova writes. “Only a few people in the world know what we know — what it feels like in the dead center of this storm, the fear and anger that drive you, how it is to win and how it is to lose. But we are not friends — not at all.
“I think, to some extent, we have driven each other. Maybe that’s better than being friends. Maybe that’s what it takes to fire up the proper fury. Only when you have that intense antagonism can you find the strength to finish her off. But who knows?
“Someday, when all this is in our past, maybe we’ll become friends. Or not. You never can tell.”
It remains uncertain whether new mother, Serena will be defending her Aussie Open crown in January 2018, but one thing is
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