Yeah but Lakers -Celtics is considered a rivalry and the Celtics have dominated them and the NBA for the most part. It's about how many times you meet on the big stage that makes a rivalry.
The word "rivalry" does not automatically mean its 50/50. I get that the connotation may mean that in everyday parlance, but it literally just means competition amongst regular competitors, which after meeting for 21 times, Maria and Serena are.
Veego von DOOM- Reviews! Not a good comparison as the celtics and lakers rivalry has been around for almost 50 years. If you rewinded a few years ago the lakers and celtics battled all the time.
This is a really good interview. She is exceptionally well spoken. And it is good that the interviewer gave her the chance to speak without interrupting her answers.
This is one of the best things Maria Sharapova could have done in her return to tennis, is having this "Real" interview on this radio station, and strangely enough for her, at This Time In Her Career, no? I have a new found respect for Maria Sharapova. You go girl.
She has no control over her race, looks or height. She plays tennis, she became pretty good at it, won majors, has a good marketing team, she's getting paid. No big deal, let the girl live.
Shane C, Sharapova is "open"ly lying! Sharapova arrogantly pretends she "knew" Serena was crying about HER (Sharapova's) conceited self after their '04 Wimbledon final, when the FACT is Serena was weeping about her beloved SISTER, Yetunde's DEATH! Serena was STILL tearful about Yetunde in her VICTORY speech after BEATING Sharapova in the '07 Australian Open final! So Sharapova KNEW that Serena'd been crying about her sister in '04 and NOT her. Sharapova's just EVIL.
That was a very interesting interview. I have a new found respect for Maria. I'm honestly surprised Maria would take a "Black" interview and be so comfortable and at home with the Sway in the Morning Crew, especially knowing that they'd be #teamWilliams I hope she and Serena do become friends.... One day
i can see that she actually respect Serena. I think its the world wants them to hate each other. Every time she keep on saying she worship Serena, Serena is intimidating. Respect her for noticing her own flaws. I really hope she and Serena can really b friends.
What a great interview by Sway & Company? Maria was so at ease with everyone, ‘twas a fun interview. Maria being so articulate added so much pizazz to it. I have yet to hear from other athletes talk as candid & smartly as Sharapova does. Kudos to Sway!!!
Could you imagine the backlash Serena would have gotten if she got busted for steroids like this girl? And lets STOP with the claim that she had a rivalry with Serena? 19-2 head to head is not a rivalry. It is utter and total DOMINATION.
6ft2 ,,, blonde green eyes , easy on the eye , reasonable tennis player, She's also had it tough , works hard in everything she does , dedicated , I think a lot of jealousy from people that cannot accept she is what she is …. WELL DONE MASHA , keep it up !!!!!
Several comments have started with if Serena was attractive, if Serena looked like, etc. Hell, I don't know about anyone else but I think Serena is a beautiful, black woman. That being said I do believe that if Serena were white she would have more respect, endorsements and praise. Anyway, I can't wait for the queen of tennis to return.
I don't think there should be equal pay in tennis for men & women. The men play best of 5 sets in grandslams and women play best of 3 sets in grandslams. Unless the women play best of 5 sets they should be pay paid less as its so much harder to play best of 5 sets tennis.
Dr. J. the basketball icon has a daughter with a white woman and that daughter plays professional tennis. People described her as pretty yet she was called the N-word and horribly mistreated to the point the mother spoke out about it and was ready to pull her out of professional tennis. But the daughter opted to fight on. IF YOU'RE BLACK NO MATTER HOW ATTRACTIVE YOU STILL HAVE TO FIGHT THE RACISM. Period.
Are you saying it's impossible to be ugly and white? If Maria were ugly, White and a multiple time grand slam champion do you think all of the jewelry and watch companies who rely on beauty to hawk their wares would come knocking at her door?
Ugly white have always been the problem on beautiful planet Earth. That is COLONIALISM=white supremacy. Of course The Williams Sister should get endorsements. and they would do for companies what MICHAEL JORDAN another person folk said was ugly did for NIKE. Just look at what MJ did for Nike!
Serena has 23 grand slams, Maria has 5. Why are they even in the same conversation as it relates to highest paid? But race doesn't play a part? Come on Maria, either your playing dumb or your not. Next question.
Who gives a shit how much they win on the Court - in FEMALE sport looks will always matter!! The reality of the matter is that Serena is far better tennis player but she has a masculine body, but Maria is a far more intelligent businesswomen and she is far more attractive to Tennis audiences.
Billie Jean King really paved the way for woman's sports . I do think as Tiger Woods did for golf. another high class sport ( Don' t tell Tiger he is black) The Williams sisters did help pave the way for tennis for black athletes. . OK so did author Ashe did years earlyer, . If this is true that Race does play into it as far as marketing it is sad but being what race you are is random and don't think Maria should take the brunt of that. For her Tennis is Tennis
Your definitely jealous its an interview calm yourself people often have things to promote on their rounds of media interviews so why have a problem with her doing so hhhhmm stop hating on this blonde snowflake.
Comments being made here good or bad reflect or identify the fans or enemies of Maria Sharapova. There are always two sides to a story, whether we all believe it or not. A big figure like Maria can pose many disadvantages to tennis fans, especially being white & beautiful easily the envy of so many, but I feel the advantages outweighs it. Here, she is being interviewed candidly about her life & rise to stardom. I find her very articulate, gave long sensible answers & coupled by the good interview of Sway & Company were able to make Maria comfortable, consequently drawing witty answers from her. Possible she height came from the explosion, interesting. Maria will always be a controversial figure, as expected due to her popularity. Let me say this, there will never be another Maria Sharapova & Serena Williams. So let’s all enjoy the hype before they both retire. Surely, I will miss them both when they go.
Carlton Banks There's no such thing as white priviledge. That's why Serena is one of the highest paid athletes on the planet. 😂😉 Keep riding dat priviledge 😘
Jess Thomas if your a real tennis fan, you should already know what it is. She's one of the most dominate players of our generation who had a ped slip up. Your prolly a 2 year bandwagon fan.
lot of hate flying about. I didn't have a stance on her good or bad from the start. I have to say she has a good PR person. She handled the interview very well tho. at the end of the day her story is what it is.
we gotta stop saying white privilege anytime a white person has some success. this woman is one of the greats of her time. she's earned every penny she ever received.
Great interview and soft as putty on the facts regarding how she missed 5 emails and didn't declare the drug on official forms - for 10 years! Nobody knew she was on it except her dad, a doctor and agent. Wow.... I think Sway was hypnotised by her beauty ha ha ha - This is some slick PR for casual tennis onlookers. Let the tennis talk from now on. She enhanced with a blood booster for a decade. No question about what alternative medication she is on now? For that heart condition? And she doesn't think race is a factor in endorsements - wow! Glad she is coming out from under her rock. Good stuff for students of marketing and how to rescue a slip-up that throws a major sports product into chaos. Slick .
Vivavoice am glad someone noticed this. It is very clear that most of the interviewers, in the rounds that she is doing. have very minimal (if any),knowledge of tennis and cannot call her out on some of her answers. I can't believe she blatantly agreed to the question by Sway that there was no notification of the banned drugs!..SMH
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Vivavoice This lying and cheating racist didn't miss any e-mails. People at her and Serenas level of athletics and entertainment have an executive assistant and *BUSINESS MANAGERS* that handles all business and financial related correspondence and keeps up with all taxes, documentation, medical exams, drug testing scheduled appointments, licensing, travel, etc.. But you can tell that Maria isn't exactly the sharpest tool in the shed, on that she really believes her English is So good we will eat corn out of her pale hand and crap sunshine...Her English is excellent but she is basically a moron with very low cognitive and logical thinking skills...The uneducated would be easily fooled by her racist horseshit. She deals with all adults as if she's talking to children as most morons delude themselves, not realizing how transparent and insincere they come off as because of their own intellectual deficit... *MARIA SHARAPOVA IS A SOCIOPATH*
ANKH-RA 999 people like Serena prefer to get a Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE) in advance. The only difference. An easy way to use banned substances if you have a good and smart doctor...and American athletes do have
What it if it is less of a question of race and more of a factor of perception of attractiveness. Are you suggesting that if Maria had the same features she has now except that her skin was brown that she wouldn't get endorsements?
Have you done any research? Taking Meldonium in Eastern Europe is literally the equivalent of taking aspirin or ibuprofen. I have friends in Russia and you don’t even need a prescription or a chemist to get it. CAS ruled it as a mistake and that Meldonium wasn’t as PED. I believe that they know more about the case than you do 🤔
There is no rivalry between Serena and Maria. Perhaps one exists in Maria's head but it most certainly doesn't in reality. Oh and she lying about not being notified about the drug she was on being added to the banned list. All tennis players receive emails when changes are made to the banned drugs list and it is on players and their teams to comply with the anti doping authorities.
You do if you livelihood depends on it. Its not like spam. that will teach her to respect the anti-doping programme. Put alot of others on alert too since she doubled her dose for that last losing match with Serena
They are notified by email of the drugs that are banned. She doesn't have to check her emails but that is what their teams are employed to do. A lot of the tennis players came out after the announcement to comment that not checking an email or ignoring it like she did was not an excuse.n'way she served her time and should be allowed to compete as she has been.
It is her duty as a professional tennis player. She does not have to do it on her own but someone from her team not even should but have to. I agree that she have rights to compete as before the suspension but to be honest I am not sure about wild carts. But looking from her perspective - she gets it from tournaments organizators. So why should not she take advantage of this situation?
^^This is a fact! Serena published a beautiful open letter to her Mother yesterday on reddit and it included some low key shade to Maria about how she has far too much integrity to cheat! Yes Queen let the haters know!
Maria beat Simona Haleb over 6 times in a row, with duping or no duping. So Simona wasn´t a big challenge to Maria to face on the first round. She was saying like yeeeeeee huppiiii
I am down with Serena absolutely without a doubt, I have been big into Grand Slam Tennis for the past...10 yrs. I always liked Maria. I haven't paid attention to this whole drama but I believe what she said, the doping wasn't intentional. I feel like everyone has made such a big deal about Maria v. Serena on and off the court and have turned it to being more so white v. black. I have mad respect for Maria as an athlete. I saw someone say she was the most overrated tennis player ever. Remember Anna Kournikova. If my memory serves me right she was at least for a time the highest grossing for endorsements and she never won any tournaments, let alone a Grand Slam title.
Thanks. Black Americans tend to look at *everything* through the racial lens. When there are other factors at play. When it comes to endorsements (female - particularly) attractiveness (or you could say perception of attractiveness) plays a far greater role than anything else. Hence, someone like Anna Kournikova who was essentially marketed as a sexpot who plays tennis getting so many endorsement in spite being such an unaccomplished tennis player. If Maria Sharapova looked the way she looked but had melanin she would still have plenty endorsements. Further, marketers consider the audience they're marketing to. As the model in the advertising is usually an indicator to the audience from the marketer that they are who the product being marketed is for. So, when you're selling products (that are largely non-tennis related) to a largely White audience in Europe, Australia etc... it makes sense to have someone who looks like them selling the product. As Africa's middle class grows, there will be greater opportunities for endorsements in those markets for Black athletes. Black Americans need to stop being so victim-minded. Just because a Black athlete isn't having the success you think they should have doesn't mean it's because of race. There are many factors that affect endorsement deals.
manug20dt3 you clearly haven't been following Tennis, the WTA and the ATP. Moreover, if you have then it's an immense disgrace that you don't see María as anything more than a cheater.
manug20dt3. You are being naïve. It was not just meldonium that Sharapova took. Look up Victor Conte, disgraced former owner of infamous Cheating PED Lab, BALCO, stating ON CAMERA, that he "worked with" Maria Sharapova! He NEVER worked with NATURALLY brilliant, amazingly highly skilled, hardworking Serena Williams. And Sharapova is 6'3" tall with NO relatives similarly remarkably tall. Her dad made sure she got HGH (Human Growth Hormone).
Serendipity Indeed! She speaks very well and vervalizes her thoughts so eloquently. Maria is not just a good-looking lass, I feel she is intelligent & well-raised by her parents that has led her to achieved her many endeavours in life. She is human after all & all these talk about her being cold, & all the negative vibes coming from everywhere is drawfed by the admiration of her fans, millions of them in fact. There is always a price to pay when an individual such as Maria Sharapova becomes a highly accomplished woman. Coupled by her good looks it even gets more complicated. How often in any generation will someone of her caliber graces the courts again. The last time it happened was when Chrissie Evert played back in the 80’s I think. Likewise, how often will we see another Serena Williams play the tennis sport again? Why don’t we just enjoy their presence & appreciate the dedication they’ve so far given in tennis. Let’s stop this rivalry or race talk. Both Maria & Serena have achieved their dreams, been tremendously successful in their careers in whatever capabilities they could muster and hope that we will see more of them in the years to come.
Serendipity VERY VERY IMPRESSED by HER ELOQUENCE !!! Speaking so well , strange I never paid attention to her since I support Serena ... but now am going to look her as very smart person ! she could turn easily as a top journalist !!
No respect for her. She shouldn't be on center court. It's pathetic that a cheater can play in center court but the players busting their asses all year play on side courts
WHAT WE. POLES, RUSSIANS AND REST OF SLAVS NOTICE IS UNCONTROLLED HATE AGAINST SHARAPOVA AND REST OD SLAVIK TENNIS PLAYERS LIKE DJOKOVIC BY WHITE ANGLOS, NOT BY BLACK OR LATINOS! INCURABLE INFERIORITY COMPLEX, MY SYMPATHY
If she's sincere, I like the way she handled the Q&A. She smoothly glossed over the issues so as not to sound cocky or commit to being apologetic for the status quo. We all are intelligent enough to know the real answers about race and the european aesthetic of beauty in advertising. It's always best to get to know someone personally before judging them, instead of listening to the media and others around you.
Can't believe the fact that Serena congratulated her on her engagement could rub her the wrong way . How skeptical can someone be?! Besides she keeps mentioning how Forbes don't have the access to her banks account so she never believe those athletes paid list. It's called valuation based on their endorsement deals and prize money. For individual sports like tennis and golf ,it's based on their prize money + endorsements whereas for team sports like basketball and football is based on their salaries/wages + endorsements.
MsChelseaforlife C'mon man. You gonna act like there could be nothing suspicious about that congratulations especially if they have no real relationship.
Emmanuel Makoba I'd be more surprised if that was Maria congratulating others on their engagement. Serena is known for being quite friendly towards other players and having some small talk like that with them. I just can't see that as a big of a deal
MsChelseaforlife I guess if you are always cold towards other people, you will never accept their compliments towards you as just that.Serena might be intense while playing, but I don't think she is unfriendly or has ulterior motives towards what she says about other players to their faces. In her press interviews after matches, she may have been a little shady in her comments about others, in the past😜
Millie Ochanda Exactly. Serena might have been shady in the past but she has definitely matured and grown over the years. And I don't think she meant to get into Maria's head when she congratulated her. It wasn't like she was about to play Sharapova anyway
I would love to hear her be "honest" opinion about how are looks have given her a extra push by the media and if she believes that is what media do standard.
Richard Dixon I totally agree with you. No female on earth can compare to Serena. At this point she should play men because women are no match. Look at the way she is built. No other tennis player is built like Serena.
it's not maria's fault...it's simple economics...we earn less and support serena less financially so her marketability isn't as high,let's keep it real...they're both filthy rich and i'm happy for them
I am pro Serena all day...everyday...but none of us know the real deal between Serena and Maria...Conflict sells...Race baiting sells...I actually give Maria credit for showing up on this radio program... They didn't give her no quarter...Like a champion SHE IS...She took it on the chin...KUDOS... And remember...There will always be only ONE Serena...She knows this as well as anybody...
Race has nothing to do with sponsorship. Maria is probably the hottest tennis player ever to exist and she can play really well too. Common sense would say she would get the most sponsorships. There was a time when Anna Kournikova was making more endorsement deals than Martina Hingis or Lindsay Davenport despite the fact that she never won a single Grand Slam and never became a world no 1 player. But nobody talks about racism back then. It is only a problem when a white player makes more money than a black player. Playing the race card is getting so boring by now. Venus said it herself, compared to what she went through vs many Eastern European players who doesn't have the sports infrastructure, funding, etc. What she went through was nothing and growing up in America is a blessing in her opinion. In America it is race3. Get over it.
Serena doesn't get as much endorsements because she isn't moving product on the things that she does endorsements. The media has this idea that success on the court or field is what drives endorsements. That has never been the case. Sometimes it can go hand in hand, Michael Jordan is the greatest celebrity endorser of all time. He was winning a lot of titles. He was moving a ton of product when he had zero rings. Michael Jordan made and still makes a ton more in endorsements than Lebron James because Jordan moves product. People wanted to be like MJ. Not like Lebron. You can decide what is the reason. The idea that your success on the court will translate to endorsements only takes shape if the public loves you. For whatever reason the public doesn't really like Serena that much. Now Maria has a huge international following. If your a company that needs or wants to make a splash worldwide Maria makes a lot of sense and she has shown she can move product. That is how you get paid. Companies do not care what color you are if you can move the product. Now I think the biggest problem Serena has had is how she comes off at times. People love Venus Williams. If Serena had the personality of Venus I think she could move product better. I think now Serena is admired for what she has accomplished but not someone that can get a group of people to buy something.
Um serna has and still is a very famous person and has alot of titles and endorsements deals rite to this day...11/15/2020...just watch three different commercials serna was in..and their is MILLIONS upon millions who love serna..and their are those who do not...just like Sharapova their are those who like her and those who don't..
The whole "highest paid" is misleading. Serena easily earns more on court than Maria through tournament wins. Endorsements are what make Maria "highest paid". Also, when it comes to race being a factor in endorsements. I think it's more of a gender issue. Black male athletes have been predominantly the face of products for the last 35 years. You never hear of racial pay disparity among black and white male athletes. Let's also not forget that people in the U.S. don't really watch tennis and don't even know how the scoring works. It's rarely even on tv unless you subscribe to Tennis Channel.
Keegan Thorpe the difference is those black athletes usually is the best on the court hands down that's just like Jason Williams joined nba and got a great contract deal and for the most part it's not the leagues it's the endorsers
I actually LOVE tennis (and I subscribe to Tennis Channel. LOL)! I can't speak for the rest of the U.S., but I watch it more than any other sport... I'm on the channel everyday! I just think tennis players are so fit, that they could more likely transition easily to any other sport and dominate.
first, you are talking out of your ass. i have been playing tennis since jr high school, and watching matches since then. i live in the u.s. i am a dark skinned male.
Even calling Serena a rival is insulting because her caliber of play doesn't warrant it. Rivals are usually peers; she's not nearly as accomplished on or off the court. She knows Serena embarrassed her and is now living the life with her new baby and man. Unbothered.
I respect her family's journey and what they came through to live well off her success, but the Serena issue started by media, marketing and imaging promoting Maria as if she was on par or better than Serena/Venus and the best that the female tennis world had to offer...she was making more and getting endorsements over the best players... It wasn't Maria's fault, but that is the struggle...what Maria is saying today about wanting Serena to be successful and deserving to be the highest paid isn't what she or her team cared to say or frankly was required to say as the "rivalry" was at its peak... The world thinks less of Black people and specifically darker complected people...making Maria the target of that pain is childish, but to act like the standard of beauty, popularity and what should be merit based promotion devolving into color prejudice isn't real is adding insult to injury... Decent interview...
There are like 2 black women playing the game for every 1000 white women, and people think it's some kind of race discrimination that one of the two black women isn't the #1 highest paid in endorsement deals which are third-party deals that have nothing to do with the sports institutions. Let me explain something about what sells products in a commercial market-place. Sex. If you have 1000 women of one race and 2 of another race, wouldn't you expect that at least 5 or 6 of the women from the group of 1000 would be sexier than the 2 of the other race? Endorsement deals aren't just about your stats in your sport. Since when has that ever been the case? The stats just propel you to fame and get you prize money. The looks also propel you to further fame, and help you get endorsement deals. Then the businesses want to use your fame and looks together to sell their product. Black people need to stop seeing racism everywhere. I once looked for a tiger-shape in the clouds, and guess what? I saw one. If I'd looked for an elephant shape, I'm sure I'd have seen one of those too.
buri zaemon is Because There is not too much Black athlete in tennis sport and the only ones tend to win most of the time SO WHEN SERENA ENTER IN THE COURT( IS IN LOAD OF WHITE MIND SET ) A BLACK WHO ENTERS IN THE COURT !! PERIOD !!! WAS OBAMA A BLACK PRESIDENT OR A PRESIDENT ????? SAME STUFF WITH the TIGER when he was good in the wood !!! and THE SAME WITH LEWIS HAMILTON !! Formule 1 champion. /// SO THE RACE IS THE RACE !!! Can’t escape of that matters // black life does matter seems still necessary to claim it today !!!!!
I think it's incredible that most of the comments are about her and Serena. The bottom-line is she is not there to talk about their so-called rivalry she's there to promote her autobiography. I also think it's a step in the right direction for a white tennis player like her in bridging the gap in establishing a dialogue with the so-called black/African-American community. I congratulate her for doing that given her circumstances over the past 18-months. (Just an FYI I'm a Serena fan through-on-through but I'd like to think I can assess one's character objectively).
Mrreciprocat2: Firstly, I never said that bridging the gap between white tennis players and the African-American community was the primary reason she was there. But for heaven sake, she was there. Action speaks louder than words brother. Furthermore, even if she is a "devious character" (which I find very cynical, be more positive man) I would also look at this interview being hugely beneficial for SWAY (in terms of marketing) given that they can benefit from her huge fanbase. It works both ways mate. Secondly, it's very easy to be cynical about people. What you're saying is a misrepresentation of her character and I would go as far being slanderous. Unless you know her personally with enough interactions and can provide sufficient evidence, you cannot call her a "devious character". I am not a huge of Maria Sharapova but I respect her for her achievements and consider this interview--regardless of what others think--as positive. TELL ME HOW MANY WHITE TENNIS PLAYERS HAVE DONE THIS? Where's Federer? (his mother is South African btw). Where's Nadal? Where's Novak Djokovic? Even where's Americas beloved duo, Sampras and Agassi? For that matter where are all the FEMALE/MALE BLACK TENNIS PLAYERS. Where are they? Lastly, I urge you to judge this character below: An American president who oversaw and continued the country's incessant military-industrial complex in the Middle-East from 2008-2016. To add that also allowed the Prison Industrial Complex to continue the facilitation of so-called African-American's filling up America's private prison population. A president who allowed numerous incidences of police brutality to remain unchallenged in the justice system and further damage the relations between the police and African-Americans community. Despite all this happening, he was on shows like Ellen promoting LGBT rights. Heck! He even went one step further by enabling gay marriage and pushing Bills for the Latino community--but nothing of real significance for the so-called African-Americans. I would even go far as asking, what did he do in aiding Africa's development? Nothing! Was he ever on shows like SWAY? If he wasn't he clearly isn't black right? That means Sharapova must be more black than Obama because she was on SWAY....lol If I had poor judgement of character I would say that Obama was a bad and manipulative person? But despite the things I've just mentioned and problem areas of his presidency reported by the media I can't because I don't know him personally. Which why I reserve my judgements on his tenure as president and that alone.
I still hate her and if you live in Europe you will understand race in Europe.In Europe white people don't see other races at all.It's different in the younger generation but my age group which is Serena's age group.Other races especially black people are a non entity.So she said it doesn't have to play a part because to her other races aren't a factor 🙅
Poor poor poor attempts to shame her. How many times do you have to rephrase the race question? I could tell she was being really annoyed being asked about yet another race question by this last guy.
The ITF said that they sent her letters and she ignored it. This woman is not being accountable. There is definitely something wrong with this woman. I hate when Sway encourage white privilege and the things he and Heather says on this show. There has never been a rivalry, as this girl isn't mentality strong as she tend to portrayed.
+jahhutrt lepeed No, it's literally being held accountable. She failed a drugs test, she was banned for a signification period of time, she served that time and can play now. If she had been let off with no ban at all (like Vavara Lepchenko, but no one gives a fuck about that) then she would not have been held accountable. Also did you not hear that she literally said 'I take full responsibility for it, you can't blame anyone but yourself'.
It's not really a question for her to answer lol. She can empathize with the struggle of black women in sport all day long, but she will never understand it.
Dario2622 How would you know unless you're a black female tennis player? Has Sharapova ever faced blatant racism like the sisters did at Indian Wells? I'll wait...
Tennis is a global sport. It is a rivalry because the money those matches make, buzz they create, etc, has no equal in women sport. And she wins more money than Serena because she generates more money for the sponsors than Serena. And it's sad to say this, because 23 GS to 5 GS, she worked harder than Serena creating a global fan base. She went to places to play exhibitions that Serena didn't bother to go. When Serena went to Argentina to play (a country with a big tradition in tennis), Sharapova already has been there; and Brazil, Colombia, Chile. And made gigs for her sponsors there, while when Serena went, she didn't even stayed for 24 hours and didn't give interviews. She looked uninstered to speak to anyone. So guess who makes headlines for cutting her hair, or getting a new sponsor, etc?.
I love this interview. Maria showed so much personality humor and charm. Very good questions to from the show. On a side note I think people forget that Maria once led Serena 2 to 1 in their head-to-head battle! ;)
@@endokuken1678 Lol! That match that Maria choked at the 2005 Australian Open semi-final against Serena where she lost like 8 - 6 in the third changed everything in their rivalry.
Wow this was good! It shows that as a non-minority she doesn't have to think about race at all on or off the court! She is definitely media trained, because she dodged those race questions left and right.
i would have never guessed that she would have been this comfortable talking to urban radio.... if she do the breakfast club..... I'm that book immediately.... lol
That would be nicr but she doesnt have time. She did like 1000 interview and press but now shes back to training for beijing (the tournament. Watch it)
Her record against Serena is indeed lopsided, and shouldnt be for a player of Maria's caliber, but it isnt Serena's only one. Serena holds many lopsided h2hs against current and past players. Saying Maria's overrated because of one h2h is unfair to her ability. Shes won a career grand slam (one of a select few), been ranked no.1 and is a global ambassador for the sport. So no need to understate her individual merit because of one h2h that she fully admits Serena's doninated.
Well her tennis results aren't overrated, she has accomplished a lot on the court. Though when compared with what Serena has done, yeah Maria is way overpaid off the court.
How disrespectful. Everyone in that room was black and they had to keep mentioning race. do they not have the phrase sticks and stones apart from names serena and venus are given special treatment and if anything Sharapova would be teased the most for her grunts but she doesnt need to hate everyone. It so annoying they always mention race
I see people being offended by this "rivalry" between Serena and Maria but like, it wasnt Maria's idea, and in this interview it wasn't Maria the one that kept bringing it up, and I don't think is fair to ask her how she feels about the struggles that Serena and Venus have been through regarding race because thats a question for SERENA AND VENUS! idk but I would never assume to know how someone else feels about something that I've never fazed. so yeah, Maria is no match for Serena and its fucked up that Maria gets more sponsors than Serena, and I think she could take a stand against that but I don't blame her for not doing it.
Maribel Castillo well it kind of is her fault because she plays into a lot. She often makes little sneaky diss comments about Serena (I.e. like in her book where she intimates that Serena only beats her because she is big and intimidating. Also she has to be fully aware that she hasn't been winning any titles or majors in like six years before her suspension, understanding people don't get sponorship deals for losing , and how the tennis world views someone who looks like Serena (body type) vs someone who looks like her. You can't tell me she didn't know she got the news coverage,sponsship deals and the such that she got because she was the foil to Serena.
I think you have a good point, she has played into it because the press created this huge "rivalry" that I don't think is valid 'cause those statistics lol (Masha has no chance) but Masha fell into it and so did Serena. lets not forget feuds have played a huge part in women tennis ( I REALLY REALLY wish it wasnt like that). and lets be honest Tennis players can be a bit bitchy and overconfident because sometimes you need that.. I play the oboe and we always get really difficult solos, in order to play good we have to pretend to have a self steem and security that isnt always there so yeah I wouldn't judge any of these women based on youtube interviews... maybe they are just putting up a persona idk
redblkgirl99 You can't force sponsors to like Serena more. Heck, look at David Beckham - he is probably the richest soccer player ever, even though objectively he wasn't the best. He's top 5 maybe, but not the best. Yet he's the richest - because people like him more than Pele 🤷♂️ way of the world.
Trajan I'm not saying you can, I'm just saying she is aware of the underlining reasons they would choose her over someone, say like Victoria or Simonea who are winning and who have beaten Serena. She plays into that, she has made it up in her mind to beong okay with playing the foil, to sometimes boarder on vicitimhood, to play up a rivilary (like dating an ex of Serena not long after they broke up) in order to keep this going. Also David Beckham would be a good example if David was playing himself off as a foil to Mesi or another great of his time. Also a lot of his money was made here and not in countries where they actually care about futbol, even in England.
Maribel Castillo I'm not judging her off one CZcams video, I'm judging her based on her actions and words over the last ten plus years. I actually follow the game so I watch post and are match interviews and read articles posted on the WTA website. And there is a marked difference in how she speaks about Serena than say Victoria or Simonea (both who have beaten her several times in this last five years or so). The last couple of times Serena lost the number one spot she lost it to Victoria. There is the rivilary.
Shrapova got money and endorsements that no one else could get. Yes her whiteness had advantages, Tennis likes to have a "Pretty white face" to represent it. There is very little one can do or even say about it. It is...what it is...
I used to live around all of these white tennis players in Tampa, and BTH, it's not them with the whiteness stuff yall are talking about, it's the WTA that pushes the racism. I think that's why the Williams wouldn't play Davis Cup ball. I would never represent the very federation that purposefully exalts others around me. We have all these people ignorant of tennis, but talking about these issues. Many of these players hate WTA racism. Many eastern Europeans don't care as their parents are very racist. The WTA is like AAU basketball. They stick next to super racist parents. It sucks.
>>>Racist & Gender paranoia ..is the mental illness of resentful SJW haters and losers. (in order to blame others of their shortcomings, bad decisions, or laziness ) >>>In reality people actually succeed because they are COMPETENT, STRONG & TOUGH (NOT some imaginary accident or privilege in the minds of ultra liberal-marxist snowflakes)
Complaining about tennis reminds me very much of the liberal left complaining that Trump won. Then using phrases such "white supremacy", "whiteness", doing the very thing they are supposedly against.
so you just going to gloss over all her achievements on the court. this women can be pretty all she wants but if she was not winning she would not have gotten those endorsements
Everyone keeps saying shes the most overrated player ever. If you're a tennis fan you'll know Anna Kournikova is the most overated player. Chick won nothing ever and got paid millions. Maria is not on Serena level but she can play tennis she has won tiltes so give her a little respect
People calling Sharapova cheater do not know a thing about professional tennis. Also if you thing Serena is clean, you are the same as the deluded Lans Armstrong's fans back in the day, who were overly vocal just because he never got caught. If you do not know, some years ago Serena was visited for a surprise inspection by WADA in her home, instead of opening the door to the man, she flee in to her panic room and claimed later she thought it was an intruder, avoiding to give a sample. You can check the panic room incident online. Also instead of Sharapova, the Williams sisters are constantly legally doping, since they are all the time provided with TUEs from WADA for conditions they claim to have. Enough with the Sharapova doping, everyone does it and be sure that the late 30yrs old American girls that build like men and somehow still compete in the highest level, do it too.
kotsos kotsou so you have to bring another person down to support your argument, for that matter the Williams sisters, you couldn't even mention other greats both in men and women sport. It speaks volume who you really are.
Thanks Mike Muse for being real about the whole race situation it seemed like everyone else was skirting around it. This is why things remain the same.
Danced around the real questions... hmmmm? Now that says alot... Can't deny the truth though! Race is an issue until it's addressed and she sure swerved on that answer... or is it me?
She is very well trained to use her considerable intelligence to straight up lie with no shame or twitch. I am fascinated by this glamorous and world class slow motion fall from grace or is it disgrace? Next stage is full on discrediting of the banning of meldonium - she has already started. its the only way she can remove the asterix against all her major victories, or indeed any victories before Jan 2016.
Don Logan nope she swerved it and put the owness on the black community...hence her bringing up the Williams family to answer the question....basically its not her fight because it doesn't affect her.
In her defense, Sway didn't *ask* the real questions. And that dude at the end didn't even form a coherent question. "How do you square that" isn't asking anything of Maria. It's open-ended, Maria immediately saw it as such, and decided to answer in a similarly vague, elusive manner.
To say she has a rivalry with Serena is major disrespect to Serena. She got bodied!
One Wave Exactly, Maria hasn't beaten Serena in 13 years. It's hardly a rivalry.
Yeah but Lakers -Celtics is considered a rivalry and the Celtics have dominated them and the NBA for the most part. It's about how many times you meet on the big stage that makes a rivalry.
The word "rivalry" does not automatically mean its 50/50. I get that the connotation may mean that in everyday parlance, but it literally just means competition amongst regular competitors, which after meeting for 21 times, Maria and Serena are.
Veego von DOOM- Reviews! Not a good comparison as the celtics and lakers rivalry has been around for almost 50 years. If you rewinded a few years ago the lakers and celtics battled all the time.
One Wave Agreed, 2 wins out of 21 matches is not a rivalry
This is a really good interview. She is exceptionally well spoken. And it is good that the interviewer gave her the chance to speak without interrupting her answers.
I love Maria Sharapova. She was rail roaded. She is a class act, very poised, articulate, and very determined.
This is one of the best things Maria Sharapova could have done in her return to tennis, is having this "Real" interview on this radio station, and strangely enough for her, at This Time In Her Career, no? I have a new found respect for Maria Sharapova. You go girl.
She has no control over her race, looks or height. She plays tennis, she became pretty good at it, won majors, has a good marketing team, she's getting paid. No big deal, let the girl live.
capricornmagic63 I know that one guy sounded like he was wanting to write his own book because his question was so damn long. Lmao
This is the most relaxed and open I've ever seen this girl.
Shane C, Sharapova is "open"ly lying! Sharapova arrogantly pretends she "knew" Serena was crying about HER (Sharapova's) conceited self after their '04 Wimbledon final, when the FACT is Serena was weeping about her beloved SISTER, Yetunde's DEATH! Serena was STILL tearful about Yetunde in her VICTORY speech after BEATING Sharapova in the '07 Australian Open final! So Sharapova KNEW that Serena'd been crying about her sister in '04 and NOT her. Sharapova's just EVIL.
Maria Sharapova is so relaxed, so cool. I'm a diehard tennis fan, I enjoy her game and this interview. Peace
That was a very interesting interview. I have a new found respect for Maria. I'm honestly surprised Maria would take a "Black" interview and be so comfortable and at home with the Sway in the Morning Crew, especially knowing that they'd be #teamWilliams I hope she and Serena do become friends.... One day
i can see that she actually respect Serena. I think its the world wants them to hate each other. Every time she keep on saying she worship Serena, Serena is intimidating. Respect her for noticing her own flaws. I really hope she and Serena can really b friends.
I’m a professional tennis coach . So being able to mix a tennis player on sway . I’m all smiles .
What a great interview by Sway & Company? Maria was so at ease with everyone, ‘twas a fun interview. Maria being so articulate added so much pizazz to it. I have yet to hear from other athletes talk as candid & smartly as Sharapova does. Kudos to Sway!!!
Could you imagine the backlash Serena would have gotten if she got busted for steroids like this girl? And lets STOP with the claim that she had a rivalry with Serena? 19-2 head to head is not a rivalry. It is utter and total DOMINATION.
Chris Is that their faceoff record?
Sheesh. That's not a rivalry. I always wondered what their record against each other was.
Yes, it is: www.tennis.com/players/405/serena-williams/vs/462/maria-sharapova/
Great interview. She has always been such a well spoken professional.
What the hell is wrong with Mike Muse? this foo asked her 3 questions at ones. She didn't even answer any of those question.
6ft2 ,,, blonde green eyes , easy on the eye , reasonable tennis player, She's also had it tough , works hard in everything she does , dedicated , I think a lot of jealousy from people that cannot accept she is what she is …. WELL DONE MASHA , keep it up !!!!!
Several comments have started with if Serena was attractive, if Serena looked like, etc. Hell, I don't know about anyone else but I think Serena is a beautiful, black woman. That being said I do believe that if Serena were white she would have more respect, endorsements and praise. Anyway, I can't wait for the queen of tennis to return.
I don't think there should be equal pay in tennis for men & women. The men play best of 5 sets in grandslams and women play best of 3 sets in grandslams. Unless the women play best of 5 sets they should be pay paid less as its so much harder to play best of 5 sets tennis.
Dr. J. the basketball icon has a daughter with a white woman and that daughter plays professional tennis. People described her as pretty yet she was called the N-word and horribly mistreated to the point the mother spoke out about it and was ready to pull her out of professional tennis. But the daughter opted to fight on. IF YOU'RE BLACK NO MATTER HOW ATTRACTIVE YOU STILL HAVE TO FIGHT THE RACISM. Period.
I'm white, and I think that their both fine!
Are you saying it's impossible to be ugly and white? If Maria were ugly, White and a multiple time grand slam champion do you think all of the jewelry and watch companies who rely on beauty to hawk their wares would come knocking at her door?
Ugly white have always been the problem on beautiful planet Earth. That is COLONIALISM=white supremacy. Of course The Williams Sister should get endorsements. and they would do for companies what MICHAEL JORDAN another person folk said was ugly did for NIKE. Just look at what MJ did for Nike!
Serena has 23 grand slams, Maria has 5. Why are they even in the same conversation as it relates to highest paid? But race doesn't play a part? Come on Maria, either your playing dumb or your not. Next question.
Who gives a shit how much they win on the Court - in FEMALE sport looks will always matter!! The reality of the matter is that Serena is far better tennis player but she has a masculine body, but Maria is a far more intelligent businesswomen and she is far more attractive to Tennis audiences.
Shaun King Better attitude? Do you know either of them?
TheRealDeePoole Is it possible Serena doesn't want the endorsements? It's indisputable that Serena is much more of a household name than Maria.
Privileged, play stupid about race playing a part. Play stupid about your doping..
Kas Journey - Yeah, when she defeated her at age 17...
Billie Jean King really paved the way for woman's sports . I do think as Tiger Woods did for golf. another high class sport ( Don' t tell Tiger he is black) The Williams sisters did help pave the way for tennis for black athletes. . OK so did author Ashe did years earlyer, . If this is true that Race does play into it as far as marketing it is sad but being what race you are is random and don't think Maria should take the brunt of that. For her Tennis is Tennis
Take with a Grain of Salt: she wants to sell that book!
No really? She's promoting a book? You don't say! Thanks, genius!
That is why she said "thank you for having me" at the end of that interview. But for everyone it is obvious why she was there.
Definitely just trying to sell the book...don't be Hoodwinked...any other time she wouldn't give us the time if day...DO NOT BUY HER BOOK...
STFU
Your definitely jealous its an interview calm yourself people often have things to promote on their rounds of media interviews so why have a problem with her doing so hhhhmm stop hating on this blonde snowflake.
She put the hood on you Maria 😅😂😅😂😅😂😅😅😂😅😅😂😅😂😅😂😅😂😅😅😂😅😂😅😂😅😅😂😅😂😅😂
She’s really smart and they asked her some pretty tough questions and she swung for the fences, 👍🏾🇳🇬👊🏾🇳🇬✌🏾
GREAT INTERVIEW from Sharapova here, great to see this more relaxed side of her.
Comments being made here good or bad reflect or identify the fans or enemies of Maria Sharapova. There are always two sides to a story, whether we all believe it or not. A big figure like Maria can pose many disadvantages to tennis fans, especially being white & beautiful easily the envy of so many, but I feel the advantages outweighs it. Here, she is being interviewed candidly about her life & rise to stardom. I find her very articulate, gave long sensible answers & coupled by the good interview of Sway & Company were able to make Maria comfortable, consequently drawing witty answers from her. Possible she height came from the explosion, interesting. Maria will always be a controversial figure, as expected due to her popularity. Let me say this, there will never be another Maria Sharapova & Serena Williams. So let’s all enjoy the hype before they both retire. Surely, I will miss them both when they go.
She sounds so mature and eloquent!
Let me take a seat and see what she's got to say. ☕️ Serena Fan here btw.
Jess Thomas I'm with you.. Let's slow down
Jess Thomas Maria can't spell white privilege if you spotted her -
"white privileg"
Carlton Banks There's no such thing as white priviledge. That's why Serena is one of the highest paid athletes on the planet. 😂😉 Keep riding dat priviledge 😘
Jess Thomas if your a real tennis fan, you should already know what it is. She's one of the most dominate players of our generation who had a ped slip up. Your prolly a 2 year bandwagon fan.
How disconnected with reality does one h ave to be to believe in white privilege in this day and age LOL
she is freaking gorgeous.
lot of hate flying about. I didn't have a stance on her good or bad from the start. I have to say she has a good PR person. She handled the interview very well tho. at the end of the day her story is what it is.
H Az Great Book from a good athlete
She didn’t answer any of the hard questions and they let her off the hook!
I absolutely love her. I don't care about what rivalry she has. She is a good tennis player and absolutely stunning.
we gotta stop saying white privilege anytime a white person has some success. this woman is one of the greats of her time. she's earned every penny she ever received.
Agree!!!! She’s very inspiring, she’s example how’s hard work can make u be successful person
Maria is a class act at the end of the day!
it sounds like yall brought her there to talk about serena
..great story tho
Brandon Cline They are talking about her book. And guess what, her book was about...Serena.
thanks for clarifying that...much respect
Great interview and soft as putty on the facts regarding how she missed 5 emails and didn't declare the drug on official forms - for 10 years! Nobody knew she was on it except her dad, a doctor and agent. Wow.... I think Sway was hypnotised by her beauty ha ha ha - This is some slick PR for casual tennis onlookers. Let the tennis talk from now on. She enhanced with a blood booster for a decade. No question about what alternative medication she is on now? For that heart condition? And she doesn't think race is a factor in endorsements - wow! Glad she is coming out from under her rock. Good stuff for students of marketing and how to rescue a slip-up that throws a major sports product into chaos. Slick .
Vivavoice am glad someone noticed this. It is very clear that most of the interviewers, in the rounds that she is doing. have very minimal (if any),knowledge of tennis and cannot call her out on some of her answers. I can't believe she blatantly agreed to the question by Sway that there was no notification of the banned drugs!..SMH
Vivavoice
This lying and cheating racist didn't miss any e-mails. People at her and Serenas level of athletics and entertainment have an executive assistant and *BUSINESS MANAGERS* that handles all business and financial related correspondence and keeps up with all taxes, documentation, medical exams, drug testing scheduled appointments, licensing, travel, etc.. But you can tell that Maria isn't exactly the sharpest tool in the shed, on that she really believes her English is So good we will eat corn out of her pale hand and crap sunshine...Her English is excellent but she is basically a moron with very low cognitive and logical thinking skills...The uneducated would be easily fooled by her racist horseshit. She deals with all adults as if she's talking to children as most morons delude themselves, not realizing how transparent and insincere they come off as because of their own intellectual deficit... *MARIA SHARAPOVA IS A SOCIOPATH*
ANKH-RA 999 people like Serena prefer to get a Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE) in advance. The only difference. An easy way to use banned substances if you have a good and smart doctor...and American athletes do have
What it if it is less of a question of race and more of a factor of perception of attractiveness. Are you suggesting that if Maria had the same features she has now except that her skin was brown that she wouldn't get endorsements?
Have you done any research? Taking Meldonium in Eastern Europe is literally the equivalent of taking aspirin or ibuprofen. I have friends in Russia and you don’t even need a prescription or a chemist to get it. CAS ruled it as a mistake and that Meldonium wasn’t as PED. I believe that they know more about the case than you do 🤔
There is no rivalry between Serena and Maria. Perhaps one exists in Maria's head but it most certainly doesn't in reality. Oh and she lying about not being notified about the drug she was on being added to the banned list. All tennis players receive emails when changes are made to the banned drugs list and it is on players and their teams to comply with the anti doping authorities.
Bira Kawooya emails.. who checks emails. She's not lying stfu fool
You do if you livelihood depends on it. Its not like spam. that will teach her to respect the anti-doping programme. Put alot of others on alert too since she doubled her dose for that last losing match with Serena
They are notified by email of the drugs that are banned. She doesn't have to check her emails but that is what their teams are employed to do. A lot of the tennis players came out after the announcement to comment that not checking an email or ignoring it like she did was not an excuse.n'way she served her time and should be allowed to compete as she has been.
It is her duty as a professional tennis player. She does not have to do it on her own but someone from her team not even should but have to. I agree that she have rights to compete as before the suspension but to be honest I am not sure about wild carts. But looking from her perspective - she gets it from tournaments organizators. So why should not she take advantage of this situation?
^^This is a fact! Serena published a beautiful open letter to her Mother yesterday on reddit and it included some low key shade to Maria about how she has far too much integrity to cheat! Yes Queen let the haters know!
Maria, you are not Serena’s rival. Serena is 19-2 vs. you. That is not a rivalry, it’s domination.
Why nobody pick up on Maria say her and Serena should be friends?
She answered very well
Damn she's fine.
JayCee Jackson Looked hotter when 18 19
she was much hotter when 17 and teens..perfect height too..then suddenly grew up a bunch and her face n body structure changed also.
Nobody picks up on Maria giving Serena praise??
Maria beat Simona Haleb over 6 times in a row, with duping or no duping. So Simona wasn´t a big challenge to Maria to face on the first round. She was saying like yeeeeeee huppiiii
Dope interview. Very relaxed and straight up. Maria looks good and is so down-to-earth.*
I am down with Serena absolutely without a doubt, I have been big into Grand Slam Tennis for the past...10 yrs. I always liked Maria. I haven't paid attention to this whole drama but I believe what she said, the doping wasn't intentional. I feel like everyone has made such a big deal about Maria v. Serena on and off the court and have turned it to being more so white v. black. I have mad respect for Maria as an athlete. I saw someone say she was the most overrated tennis player ever. Remember Anna Kournikova. If my memory serves me right she was at least for a time the highest grossing for endorsements and she never won any tournaments, let alone a Grand Slam title.
:)
Thanks. Black Americans tend to look at *everything* through the racial lens. When there are other factors at play. When it comes to endorsements (female - particularly) attractiveness (or you could say perception of attractiveness) plays a far greater role than anything else.
Hence, someone like Anna Kournikova who was essentially marketed as a sexpot who plays tennis getting so many endorsement in spite being such an unaccomplished tennis player. If Maria Sharapova looked the way she looked but had melanin she would still have plenty endorsements.
Further, marketers consider the audience they're marketing to. As the model in the advertising is usually an indicator to the audience from the marketer that they are who the product being marketed is for. So, when you're selling products (that are largely non-tennis related) to a largely White audience in Europe, Australia etc... it makes sense to have someone who looks like them selling the product.
As Africa's middle class grows, there will be greater opportunities for endorsements in those markets for Black athletes. Black Americans need to stop being so victim-minded. Just because a Black athlete isn't having the success you think they should have doesn't mean it's because of race.
There are many factors that affect endorsement deals.
manug20dt3 you clearly haven't been following Tennis, the WTA and the ATP. Moreover, if you have then it's an immense disgrace that you don't see María as anything more than a cheater.
I agree, it has turned that way, which is a shame because, i think both Serena and Maria are beautiful and great players.
manug20dt3. You are being naïve. It was not just meldonium that Sharapova took. Look up Victor Conte, disgraced former owner of infamous Cheating PED Lab, BALCO, stating ON CAMERA, that he "worked with" Maria Sharapova! He NEVER worked with NATURALLY brilliant, amazingly highly skilled, hardworking Serena Williams. And Sharapova is 6'3" tall with NO relatives similarly remarkably tall. Her dad made sure she got HGH (Human Growth Hormone).
Why is she using Serena Williams to sell her boring ass book?!!!!
Grace Turner ,thank you
because she knew her book would flop
Answered your own question, her book would be MORE boring without Serena.
Joe Jones ,thank you
Grace Turner boring to you
She's very well spoken.
Serendipity Indeed! She speaks very well and vervalizes her thoughts so eloquently. Maria is not just a good-looking lass, I feel she is intelligent & well-raised by her parents that has led her to achieved her many endeavours in life. She is human after all & all these talk about her being cold, & all the negative vibes coming from everywhere is drawfed by the admiration of her fans, millions of them in fact. There is always a price to pay when an individual such as Maria Sharapova becomes a highly accomplished woman. Coupled by her good looks it even gets more complicated. How often in any generation will someone of her caliber graces the courts again. The last time it happened was when Chrissie Evert played back in the 80’s I think. Likewise, how often will we see another Serena Williams play the tennis sport again? Why don’t we just enjoy their presence & appreciate the dedication they’ve so far given in tennis. Let’s stop this rivalry or race talk. Both Maria & Serena have achieved their dreams, been tremendously successful in their careers in whatever capabilities they could muster and hope that we will see more of them in the years to come.
Serendipity Frank e Ray
Serendipity VERY VERY IMPRESSED by HER ELOQUENCE !!! Speaking so well , strange I never paid attention to her since I support Serena ... but now am going to look her as very smart person ! she could turn easily as a top journalist !!
she can get it
Right? Damn! I could listen to her all day.
All the hate for Maria is ridiculous. People grow up already.
Serena ENDED her
What a PR "stunt"...Because she's was getting called out, she wanted to do an interview w/Sway? ummm, ok
She speaks better English than me? What the Hell!
She's lived in the US since she was 6
No respect for her. She shouldn't be on center court. It's pathetic that a cheater can play in center court but the players busting their asses all year play on side courts
SteelersLakersFan *still would get it 👀*
æwyn now that's another story for another day ya know what I'm sayin 😂
SteelersLakersFan you mean Arthur Ashe stadium
lol ikr? she's still gorgeous.
She is so full of it.
WHAT WE. POLES, RUSSIANS AND REST OF SLAVS NOTICE IS UNCONTROLLED HATE AGAINST SHARAPOVA AND REST OD SLAVIK TENNIS PLAYERS LIKE DJOKOVIC BY WHITE ANGLOS, NOT BY BLACK OR LATINOS! INCURABLE INFERIORITY COMPLEX, MY SYMPATHY
If she's sincere, I like the way she handled the Q&A. She smoothly glossed over the issues so as not to sound cocky or commit to being apologetic for the status quo. We all are intelligent enough to know the real answers about race and the european aesthetic of beauty in advertising. It's always best to get to know someone personally before judging them, instead of listening to the media and others around you.
If only she were as good at tennis as she is at making excuses for racism! She's really Cha Cha'd around that question!
i would dragged her immediately. they llet her get away with it
I kinda like this because Maria is showing us she's tying to turn over a new leaf so don't hate her.
Can't believe the fact that Serena congratulated her on her engagement could rub her the wrong way . How skeptical can someone be?!
Besides she keeps mentioning how Forbes don't have the access to her banks account so she never believe those athletes paid list. It's called valuation based on their endorsement deals and prize money. For individual sports like tennis and golf ,it's based on their prize money + endorsements whereas for team sports like basketball and football is based on their salaries/wages + endorsements.
MsChelseaforlife C'mon man. You gonna act like there could be nothing suspicious about that congratulations especially if they have no real relationship.
Emmanuel Makoba I'd be more surprised if that was Maria congratulating others on their engagement. Serena is known for being quite friendly towards other players and having some small talk like that with them. I just can't see that as a big of a deal
MsChelseaforlife I guess if you are always cold towards other people, you will never accept their compliments towards you as just that.Serena might be intense while playing, but I don't think she is unfriendly or has ulterior motives towards what she says about other players to their faces. In her press interviews after matches, she may have been a little shady in her comments about others, in the past😜
MsChelseaforlife Fair enough.
Millie Ochanda Exactly. Serena might have been shady in the past but she has definitely matured and grown over the years. And I don't think she meant to get into Maria's head when she congratulated her. It wasn't like she was about to play Sharapova anyway
I don't believe a damn thing she said about Serena. She was just trying to sell books.
I would love to hear her be "honest" opinion about how are looks have given her a extra push by the media and if she believes that is what media do standard.
The beauty and the beast. This was such a great rivalry. The fact is Serena should play men. No women is in the same catagory as Serena.
Richard Dixon I totally agree with you. No female on earth can compare to Serena. At this point she should play men because women are no match. Look at the way she is built. No other tennis player is built like Serena.
it's not maria's fault...it's simple economics...we earn less and support serena less financially so her marketability isn't as high,let's keep it real...they're both filthy rich and i'm happy for them
I was hoping they would talk music and Sharapova was like a boom bap head...
Whether you Luv Her, or Hate Her, she always keeps it 💯!!!
dumbass if she kept it 100 she would have not liked about doping for 10 years. Get the fuck outta here.
Also those comments here... Guys in 2016 serena was the highest paid athlete. So get you facts right
I am pro Serena all day...everyday...but none of us know the real deal between Serena and Maria...Conflict sells...Race baiting sells...I actually give Maria credit for showing up on this radio program... They didn't give her no quarter...Like a champion SHE IS...She took it on the chin...KUDOS... And remember...There will always be only ONE Serena...She knows this as well as anybody...
Shut the fuck up.
Race has nothing to do with sponsorship. Maria is probably the hottest tennis player ever to exist and she can play really well too. Common sense would say she would get the most sponsorships. There was a time when Anna Kournikova was making more endorsement deals than Martina Hingis or Lindsay Davenport despite the fact that she never won a single Grand Slam and never became a world no 1 player. But nobody talks about racism back then. It is only a problem when a white player makes more money than a black player. Playing the race card is getting so boring by now. Venus said it herself, compared to what she went through vs many Eastern European players who doesn't have the sports infrastructure, funding, etc. What she went through was nothing and growing up in America is a blessing in her opinion. In America it is race3. Get over it.
nonsense it's got everything to do with race, Maria got paid more because she was white and a blonde
Serena doesn't get as much endorsements because she isn't moving product on the things that she does endorsements. The media has this idea that success on the court or field is what drives endorsements. That has never been the case. Sometimes it can go hand in hand, Michael Jordan is the greatest celebrity endorser of all time. He was winning a lot of titles. He was moving a ton of product when he had zero rings. Michael Jordan made and still makes a ton more in endorsements than Lebron James because Jordan moves product. People wanted to be like MJ. Not like Lebron. You can decide what is the reason.
The idea that your success on the court will translate to endorsements only takes shape if the public loves you. For whatever reason the public doesn't really like Serena that much. Now Maria has a huge international following. If your a company that needs or wants to make a splash worldwide Maria makes a lot of sense and she has shown she can move product. That is how you get paid. Companies do not care what color you are if you can move the product.
Now I think the biggest problem Serena has had is how she comes off at times. People love Venus Williams. If Serena had the personality of Venus I think she could move product better. I think now Serena is admired for what she has accomplished but not someone that can get a group of people to buy something.
Um serna has and still is a very famous person and has alot of titles and endorsements deals rite to this day...11/15/2020...just watch three different commercials serna was in..and their is MILLIONS upon millions who love serna..and their are those who do not...just like Sharapova their are those who like her and those who don't..
The hate from Black people to that woman is AMAZING !! and yet, the Big head Serena was on the juice to !!!!
The whole "highest paid" is misleading. Serena easily earns more on court than Maria through tournament wins. Endorsements are what make Maria "highest paid". Also, when it comes to race being a factor in endorsements. I think it's more of a gender issue. Black male athletes have been predominantly the face of products for the last 35 years. You never hear of racial pay disparity among black and white male athletes. Let's also not forget that people in the U.S. don't really watch tennis and don't even know how the scoring works. It's rarely even on tv unless you subscribe to Tennis Channel.
Keegan Thorpe the difference is those black athletes usually is the best on the court hands down that's just like Jason Williams joined nba and got a great contract deal and for the most part it's not the leagues it's the endorsers
great point!
I actually LOVE tennis (and I subscribe to Tennis Channel. LOL)! I can't speak for the rest of the U.S., but I watch it more than any other sport... I'm on the channel everyday! I just think tennis players are so fit, that they could more likely transition easily to any other sport and dominate.
first, you are talking out of your ass. i have been playing tennis since jr high school, and watching matches since then. i live in the u.s. i am a dark skinned male.
Keegan Thorpe g the
Even calling Serena a rival is insulting because her caliber of play doesn't warrant it. Rivals are usually peers; she's not nearly as accomplished on or off the court. She knows Serena embarrassed her and is now living the life with her new baby and man. Unbothered.
Why are they asking her so many questions about race in tennis? She's a white European. What would she actually know about being Black in America?
shes russian which is not europe.
Ciaron Smith What a stupid thing to say some parts of Russia is Eastern Europe the other part Asia
So its not European. Thanks.
Ciaron Smith how is to not European when a large part of Russia is in Eastern Europe
European Russia is the western part of Russia. It is also part of eastern Europe. Thanks
Serena kills her damn near every time . No contest
I respect her family's journey and what they came through to live well off her success, but the Serena issue started by media, marketing and imaging promoting Maria as if she was on par or better than Serena/Venus and the best that the female tennis world had to offer...she was making more and getting endorsements over the best players...
It wasn't Maria's fault, but that is the struggle...what Maria is saying today about wanting Serena to be successful and deserving to be the highest paid isn't what she or her team cared to say or frankly was required to say as the "rivalry" was at its peak...
The world thinks less of Black people and specifically darker complected people...making Maria the target of that pain is childish, but to act like the standard of beauty, popularity and what should be merit based promotion devolving into color prejudice isn't real is adding insult to injury...
Decent interview...
SWAY Needs a better table setting when inviting the beauties like Maria...come bro bro need some glass walls and lighting
She's awesome and gorgeous.
There are like 2 black women playing the game for every 1000 white women, and people think it's some kind of race discrimination that one of the two black women isn't the #1 highest paid in endorsement deals which are third-party deals that have nothing to do with the sports institutions.
Let me explain something about what sells products in a commercial market-place.
Sex.
If you have 1000 women of one race and 2 of another race, wouldn't you expect that at least 5 or 6 of the women from the group of 1000 would be sexier than the 2 of the other race?
Endorsement deals aren't just about your stats in your sport. Since when has that ever been the case? The stats just propel you to fame and get you prize money. The looks also propel you to further fame, and help you get endorsement deals. Then the businesses want to use your fame and looks together to sell their product.
Black people need to stop seeing racism everywhere. I once looked for a tiger-shape in the clouds, and guess what? I saw one. If I'd looked for an elephant shape, I'm sure I'd have seen one of those too.
Why there's always comparison, between their races???..sometimes media makes all things more complicated
buri zaemon is Because There is not too much Black athlete in tennis sport and the only ones tend to win most of the time SO WHEN SERENA ENTER IN THE COURT( IS IN LOAD OF WHITE MIND SET ) A BLACK WHO ENTERS IN THE COURT !! PERIOD !!! WAS OBAMA A BLACK PRESIDENT OR A PRESIDENT ????? SAME STUFF WITH the TIGER when he was good in the wood !!! and THE SAME WITH LEWIS HAMILTON !! Formule 1 champion. /// SO THE RACE IS THE RACE !!! Can’t escape of that matters // black life does matter seems still necessary to claim it today !!!!!
I think it's incredible that most of the comments are about her and Serena. The bottom-line is she is not there to talk about their so-called rivalry she's there to promote her autobiography.
I also think it's a step in the right direction for a white tennis player like her in bridging the gap in establishing a dialogue with the so-called black/African-American community. I congratulate her for doing that given her circumstances over the past 18-months.
(Just an FYI I'm a Serena fan through-on-through but I'd like to think I can assess one's character objectively).
Nate Dogg Because they had a great rivalry there for a minute!✌#claimtofame
Mrreciprocat2: Firstly, I never said that bridging the gap between white tennis players and the African-American community was the primary reason she was there. But for heaven sake, she was there. Action speaks louder than words brother. Furthermore, even if she is a "devious character" (which I find very cynical, be more positive man) I would also look at this interview being hugely beneficial for SWAY (in terms of marketing) given that they can benefit from her huge fanbase. It works both ways mate.
Secondly, it's very easy to be cynical about people. What you're saying is a misrepresentation of her character and I would go as far being slanderous. Unless you know her personally with enough interactions and can provide sufficient evidence, you cannot call her a "devious character".
I am not a huge of Maria Sharapova but I respect her for her achievements and consider this interview--regardless of what others think--as positive. TELL ME HOW MANY WHITE TENNIS PLAYERS HAVE DONE THIS? Where's Federer? (his mother is South African btw). Where's Nadal? Where's Novak Djokovic? Even where's Americas beloved duo, Sampras and Agassi?
For that matter where are all the FEMALE/MALE BLACK TENNIS PLAYERS. Where are they?
Lastly, I urge you to judge this character below:
An American president who oversaw and continued the country's incessant military-industrial complex in the Middle-East from 2008-2016. To add that also allowed the Prison Industrial Complex to continue the facilitation of so-called African-American's filling up America's private prison population. A president who allowed numerous incidences of police brutality to remain unchallenged in the justice system and further damage the relations between the police and African-Americans community. Despite all this happening, he was on shows like Ellen promoting LGBT rights. Heck! He even went one step further by enabling gay marriage and pushing Bills for the Latino community--but nothing of real significance for the so-called African-Americans. I would even go far as asking, what did he do in aiding Africa's development? Nothing!
Was he ever on shows like SWAY? If he wasn't he clearly isn't black right? That means Sharapova must be more black than Obama because she was on SWAY....lol
If I had poor judgement of character I would say that Obama was a bad and manipulative person? But despite the things I've just mentioned and problem areas of his presidency reported by the media I can't because I don't know him personally. Which why I reserve my judgements on his tenure as president and that alone.
I still hate her and if you live in Europe you will understand race in Europe.In Europe white people don't see other races at all.It's different in the younger generation but my age group which is Serena's age group.Other races especially black people are a non entity.So she said it doesn't have to play a part because to her other races aren't a factor 🙅
Poor poor poor attempts to shame her. How many times do you have to rephrase the race question? I could tell she was being really annoyed being asked about yet another race question by this last guy.
Serena and Maria were close in another life; family members or in the same military unit...
The ITF said that they sent her letters and she ignored it. This woman is not being accountable. There is definitely something wrong with this woman. I hate when Sway encourage white privilege and the things he and Heather says on this show. There has never been a rivalry, as this girl isn't mentality strong as she tend to portrayed.
Sway and Heather looked honoured to be in her presence. Prestige for the show etc... wow
+spsaunde Lmao what? She was banned for 15 months, that is being held accountable.
stipV no that's punishment. Accountability is when you accept what you've done wrong and you apologise. She's still making excuses
jahhutrt lepeed that's a good point.
+jahhutrt lepeed No, it's literally being held accountable. She failed a drugs test, she was banned for a signification period of time, she served that time and can play now. If she had been let off with no ban at all (like Vavara Lepchenko, but no one gives a fuck about that) then she would not have been held accountable. Also did you not hear that she literally said 'I take full responsibility for it, you can't blame anyone but yourself'.
She's actually a great person. And she beat serena.
She dodged that race question pretty coyly
It's not really a question for her to answer lol. She can empathize with the struggle of black women in sport all day long, but she will never understand it.
That's bs, there are woke white people who are willing to stand up against this bs. It's not a black persons responsibility to fix this shit.
Race plays no role in any of this. The struggles black girls face in tennis are EXACTLY the same struggle white girls face.
Dario2622 How would you know unless you're a black female tennis player? Has Sharapova ever faced blatant racism like the sisters did at Indian Wells? I'll wait...
Mike S one of the best comments I have seen in a long time!👏👏👏totally agree.
OMG She´s is so beautiful *-*
Tyrone Jacobsen yes indeed she's super gorgeous 😍
she needs to get blacked.
Tyrone Jacobsen She is average
Moormores she’s gorgeous period. Maria she’s the best looking, feminine and beautiful woman on the Tennis 🎾 world wide.
Captain7 who did she f***? Serena's with a white guy
Tennis is a global sport. It is a rivalry because the money those matches make, buzz they create, etc, has no equal in women sport. And she wins more money than Serena because she generates more money for the sponsors than Serena. And it's sad to say this, because 23 GS to 5 GS, she worked harder than Serena creating a global fan base. She went to places to play exhibitions that Serena didn't bother to go. When Serena went to Argentina to play (a country with a big tradition in tennis), Sharapova already has been there; and Brazil, Colombia, Chile. And made gigs for her sponsors there, while when Serena went, she didn't even stayed for 24 hours and didn't give interviews. She looked uninstered to speak to anyone. So guess who makes headlines for cutting her hair, or getting a new sponsor, etc?.
I love this interview. Maria showed so much personality humor and charm. Very good questions to from the show.
On a side note I think people forget that Maria once led Serena 2 to 1 in their head-to-head battle! ;)
Once upon a time. In a land far far AWAY!
That 2-1 lead lasted about 2 months lol
@@endokuken1678 Lol! That match that Maria choked at the 2005 Australian Open semi-final against Serena where she lost like 8 - 6 in the third changed everything in their rivalry.
The longest legs in tennis
huh? Maria is her real name. Masha is short for Maria in Russia. TF she talking about?? thats like me saying my real name isn't Robert, it's Bob.
she'd never told that story before . now she thinks its cute . her name would be transcribe from cyrillic into Mariya
The Wedge No its not
Wow this was good! It shows that as a non-minority she doesn't have to think about race at all on or off the court! She is definitely media trained, because she dodged those race questions left and right.
i would have never guessed that she would have been this comfortable talking to urban radio.... if she do the breakfast club..... I'm that book immediately.... lol
lonnie lomax she ain't doing the breakfast club cuz Charlemagne loves Serena n he'll do everything in his power to destroy her
Cloneme12.. i hear ya.... but i would gain respect for her if she did lol
Cloneme12 that's what am saying! I was a little surprised she did this.
That would be nicr but she doesnt have time. She did like 1000 interview and press but now shes back to training for beijing (the tournament. Watch it)
Gotta love & respect her for what she really is more than what she have accomplished
Most overrated tennis player ever. 19 - 2. That's your record Vs Serena... Remember that.
ClaxtonBay123 damn that's terrible
Her record against Serena is indeed lopsided, and shouldnt be for a player of Maria's caliber, but it isnt Serena's only one. Serena holds many lopsided h2hs against current and past players. Saying Maria's overrated because of one h2h is unfair to her ability. Shes won a career grand slam (one of a select few), been ranked no.1 and is a global ambassador for the sport. So no need to understate her individual merit because of one h2h that she fully admits Serena's doninated.
Well her tennis results aren't overrated, she has accomplished a lot on the court. Though when compared with what Serena has done, yeah Maria is way overpaid off the court.
Why is it suddenly a bad thing to have a losing record against the greatest of all time? Find something else to run her for, like her juicing
ClaxtonBay123 thank you. Serena is clearly the better player overall and head to head! If anyone refutes this, their just in denial
How disrespectful. Everyone in that room was black and they had to keep mentioning race. do they not have the phrase sticks and stones apart from names serena and venus are given special treatment and if anything Sharapova would be teased the most for her grunts but she doesnt need to hate everyone. It so annoying they always mention race
I see people being offended by this "rivalry" between Serena and Maria but like, it wasnt Maria's idea, and in this interview it wasn't Maria the one that kept bringing it up, and I don't think is fair to ask her how she feels about the struggles that Serena and Venus have been through regarding race because thats a question for SERENA AND VENUS! idk but I would never assume to know how someone else feels about something that I've never fazed. so yeah, Maria is no match for Serena and its fucked up that Maria gets more sponsors than Serena, and I think she could take a stand against that but I don't blame her for not doing it.
Maribel Castillo well it kind of is her fault because she plays into a lot. She often makes little sneaky diss comments about Serena (I.e. like in her book where she intimates that Serena only beats her because she is big and intimidating. Also she has to be fully aware that she hasn't been winning any titles or majors in like six years before her suspension, understanding people don't get sponorship deals for losing , and how the tennis world views someone who looks like Serena (body type) vs someone who looks like her. You can't tell me she didn't know she got the news coverage,sponsship deals and the such that she got because she was the foil to Serena.
I think you have a good point, she has played into it because the press created this huge "rivalry" that I don't think is valid 'cause those statistics lol (Masha has no chance) but Masha fell into it and so did Serena. lets not forget feuds have played a huge part in women tennis ( I REALLY REALLY wish it wasnt like that). and lets be honest Tennis players can be a bit bitchy and overconfident because sometimes you need that.. I play the oboe and we always get really difficult solos, in order to play good we have to pretend to have a self steem and security that isnt always there so yeah I wouldn't judge any of these women based on youtube interviews... maybe they are just putting up a persona idk
redblkgirl99 You can't force sponsors to like Serena more. Heck, look at David Beckham - he is probably the richest soccer player ever, even though objectively he wasn't the best. He's top 5 maybe, but not the best. Yet he's the richest - because people like him more than Pele 🤷♂️ way of the world.
Trajan I'm not saying you can, I'm just saying she is aware of the underlining reasons they would choose her over someone, say like Victoria or Simonea who are winning and who have beaten Serena. She plays into that, she has made it up in her mind to beong okay with playing the foil, to sometimes boarder on vicitimhood, to play up a rivilary (like dating an ex of Serena not long after they broke up) in order to keep this going.
Also David Beckham would be a good example if David was playing himself off as a foil to Mesi or another great of his time. Also a lot of his money was made here and not in countries where they actually care about futbol, even in England.
Maribel Castillo I'm not judging her off one CZcams video, I'm judging her based on her actions and words over the last ten plus years. I actually follow the game so I watch post and are match interviews and read articles posted on the WTA website. And there is a marked difference in how she speaks about Serena than say Victoria or Simonea (both who have beaten her several times in this last five years or so). The last couple of times Serena lost the number one spot she lost it to Victoria. There is the rivilary.
She has a feud- not a rivalry with Serena. Last time she beat Serena, Bush was President, and we didn't have I Phones.
Shrapova got money and endorsements that no one else could get. Yes her whiteness had advantages, Tennis likes to have a "Pretty white face" to represent it. There is very little one can do or even say about it. It is...what it is...
Pretty where, attractive yes, but so are many black women who look just as are more attractive than her, white supremacy is "Satanic"!!!!
I used to live around all of these white tennis players in Tampa, and BTH, it's not them with the whiteness stuff yall are talking about, it's the WTA that pushes the racism. I think that's why the Williams wouldn't play Davis Cup ball. I would never represent the very federation that purposefully exalts others around me. We have all these people ignorant of tennis, but talking about these issues.
Many of these players hate WTA racism. Many eastern Europeans don't care as their parents are very racist. The WTA is like AAU basketball. They stick next to super racist parents. It sucks.
>>>Racist & Gender paranoia ..is the mental illness of resentful SJW haters and losers.
(in order to blame others of their shortcomings, bad decisions, or laziness )
>>>In reality people actually succeed because they are COMPETENT, STRONG & TOUGH
(NOT some imaginary accident or privilege in the minds of ultra liberal-marxist snowflakes)
Complaining about tennis reminds me very much of the liberal left complaining that Trump won.
Then using phrases such "white supremacy", "whiteness", doing the very thing they are supposedly against.
so you just going to gloss over all her achievements on the court. this women can be pretty all she wants but if she was not winning she would not have gotten those endorsements
Everyone keeps saying shes the most overrated player ever. If you're a tennis fan you'll know Anna Kournikova is the most overated player. Chick won nothing ever and got paid millions. Maria is not on Serena level but she can play tennis she has won tiltes so give her a little respect
People calling Sharapova cheater do not know a thing about professional tennis. Also if you thing Serena is clean, you are the same as the deluded Lans Armstrong's fans back in the day, who were overly vocal just because he never got caught. If you do not know, some years ago Serena was visited for a surprise inspection by WADA in her home, instead of opening the door to the man, she flee in to her panic room and claimed later she thought it was an intruder, avoiding to give a sample. You can check the panic room incident online. Also instead of Sharapova, the Williams sisters are constantly legally doping, since they are all the time provided with TUEs from WADA for conditions they claim to have. Enough with the Sharapova doping, everyone does it and be sure that the late 30yrs old American girls that build like men and somehow still compete in the highest level, do it too.
kotsos kotsou um, she did cheat.
kotsos kotsou please explain how she didn't
kotsos kotsou so you have to bring another person down to support your argument, for that matter the Williams sisters, you couldn't even mention other greats both in men and women sport. It speaks volume who you really are.
Thanks Mike Muse for being real about the whole race situation it seemed like everyone else was skirting around it. This is why things remain the same.
she's so cute..
great interview #sway
Danced around the real questions... hmmmm? Now that says alot... Can't deny the truth though! Race is an issue until it's addressed and she sure swerved on that answer... or is it me?
And I gave a thumb down... for the record 😉
She is very well trained to use her considerable intelligence to straight up lie with no shame or twitch. I am fascinated by this glamorous and world class slow motion fall from grace or is it disgrace? Next stage is full on discrediting of the banning of meldonium - she has already started. its the only way she can remove the asterix against all her major victories, or indeed any victories before Jan 2016.
Don Logan nope she swerved it and put the owness on the black community...hence her bringing up the Williams family to answer the question....basically its not her fight because it doesn't affect her.
In her defense, Sway didn't *ask* the real questions. And that dude at the end didn't even form a coherent question. "How do you square that" isn't asking anything of Maria. It's open-ended, Maria immediately saw it as such, and decided to answer in a similarly vague, elusive manner.
sways eyes were bucking when he had a white woman in his presence. but she really didnt wanna talk about race lol
She be moaning way too much.her neighbors must be hella annoyed
her and Serena's matches sound like a porn
KODED LUX She ain't that loud in the bedroom. It's an act