{"id":25257,"date":"2021-06-02T17:28:22","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T17:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=25257"},"modified":"2021-06-02T18:29:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T18:29:39","slug":"venus-williams-french-open","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/venus-williams-french-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans Are Loving This Venus Williams French Open Win Off The Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_25262\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25262\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25262\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1321324114.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25262\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Venus Williams and Coco Gauff at the 2021 French Open Tennis Tournament (Photo: Tim Clayton\/Corbis via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After the abrupt departure of <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/naomi-osaka-tennis-earnings\/\">Naomi Osaka<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/naomi-osaka-press-french-open\/\">French Open<\/a>, many fellow <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/naomi-osaka-french-open-pulls-out\/\">athletes have spoken out<\/a> regarding the press versus athlete debate. <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/k-swiss-venus-williams\/\">Venus Williams<\/a>&#8216; post-game response has undoubtedly led the pack in responses. The 40-year-old was at a press conference coming off a first-round loss to Ekaterina Alexandrova at Roland Garros and was asked how she coped with speaking to the media throughout her career. \u201cFor me personally, how I cope, how I deal with it, is that I know every single person asking me a question can\u2019t play as well as I can and never will,\u201d Williams says. \u201cSo no matter what you say, or what you write, you\u2019ll never light a candle to me. That\u2019s how I deal with it. But each person deals with it differently.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Venus Williams talking about media scrutiny is the energy I need to start bringing into every facet of my life <br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iqGNHuAzMi\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/iqGNHuAzMi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jarett Wieselman (@JarettSays) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JarettSays\/status\/1399848390549114881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">June 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The notable response Venus gave came in after a question about Osaka. All four Grand Slams released a new joint statement offering Naomi Osaka their support after she withdrew from the 2021 French Open following her press boycott. Osaka revealed she has suffered anxiety and \u201cbouts of depression\u201d since bursting onto the tennis scene with her win at the 2018 US Open over Serena Williams. A large part of it has come as a result of dealing with scrutiny from the press. Many fellow pros have backed Osaka \u2013 including Venus\u2019 sister, <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/serena-williams-grand-slam\/\">Serena<\/a>. The debate on how athletes are allowed to respond \u2014 or not respond \u2014 to the press is still the main discussion, but fans are loving the stance Venus made in her interview.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Venus Williams said your insults can\u2019t reach me because you\u2019re not at my level\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\udd25<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/z6vGdIAJB5\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/z6vGdIAJB5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TV Fanatic\ud83d\udc51\u269c\ufe0f (@TvKhaleesi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TvKhaleesi\/status\/1399821263032422405?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">June 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Coco Gauff and Williams recently teamed up following an injury to Gauff&#8217;s usual doubles partner, Caty McNally, in singles qualifying last week. According to Gauff, her father, Corey, who is also her coach, reached out to Williams&#8217; team shortly before the entry deadline. &#8220;I wasn&#8217;t expecting a yes, to be honest,&#8221; Gauff says. &#8220;It was worth the ask. I&#8217;m happy she said yes.&#8221; Williams said she was excited about the pairing during a news conference on Tuesday. &#8220;She&#8217;s so extremely talented that I&#8217;ll definitely be expecting her to do all the work,&#8221; Williams says of Gauff. Williams has won 14 major doubles titles \u2014 including two at the French Open \u2014 all with her sister Serena Williams. The siblings most recently won together at Wimbledon in 2016. Gauff has reached the doubles quarterfinals twice at Grand Slams during her career, including at this year&#8217;s Australian Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29095,"featured_media":25263,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[38,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fans Are Loving Venus Williams French Open Post-Game Clapback<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"After the abrupt departure of Naomi Osaka at the French Open, many fellow athletes have spoken out regarding the press versus athlete debate. 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