Tennis nice Serena Williams is without doubt one of the most achieved athletes of the twenty first century. She received 23 grand slam singles titles throughout her prolific profession, which is only one shy of the ladies’s tennis all-time report.
She retired after the 2022 US Open, citing her need to spend extra time with household and deal with different ventures. Her docuseries “Within the Area: Serena Williams,” premiered at this yr’s Tribeca Pageant in New York Metropolis.
At one level through the pageant, the tennis champion was requested if she had any ideas she was prepared to share a few fellow feminine athlete — Caitlin Clark.
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FILE – Serena Williams arrives on the 54th NAACP Picture Awards on Feb. 25, 2023, on the Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, Calif. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)
Williams suggested the WNBA rookie to maintain “doing what she’s doing.”
“I simply love that she tried to remain grounded and that she would not… have a look at her social [media],” Williams informed The Related Press on the purple carpet. “I get it. I do not both. And I feel it is so essential to proceed doing what she’s doing.”
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Williams additionally instructed that among the negativity directed at Clark stemmed from jealousy.
“And it doesn’t matter what different folks do, if persons are destructive then it is as a result of they can not do what you do… principally,” Williams famous. “And hopefully she’ll proceed to do what she’s doing.”
Caitlin Clark #22 of the Indiana Fever dribbles the ball through the recreation in opposition to the Atlanta Dream on June 13, 2024 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Ron Hoskins/NBAE through Getty Photos)
Clark’s identify has been featured in numerous sports activities headlines all through the primary a number of weeks of her first season within the WNBA.
A lot of the dialog about Clark has centered across the stage of physicality the rookie has confronted throughout her first handful {of professional} basketball video games.
“I feel everyone is bodily with me. They get away with issues that in all probability different folks do not get away with,” Clark stated on Could 28 after the Fever dropped a recreation to the Los Angeles Sparks.
Caitlin Clark #22 of the Indiana Fever appears to be like on through the recreation in opposition to the Connecticut Solar on June 10, 2024 on the Mohegan Solar Area in Uncasville, Connecticut. (Chris Marion/NBAE through Getty Photos)
Earlier this week, Clark discovered that she wouldn’t be touring to Paris subsequent month to play with the US ladies’s nationwide basketball workforce within the Olympics.
Diana Taurasi, Kahleah Copper, A’Ja Wilson, Chelsea Grey, Breanna Stewart, Brittney Griner, Alyssa Thomas, Napheesa Collier, Jewell Loyd, Kelsey Plum, Jackie Younger and Sabrina Ionescu made up the 12-woman roster.
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Clark leads rookies in a wide range of statistical classes. She is averaging 15.6 factors and 6 assists over her first 14 WNBA video games.
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